‘Best of CeBIT America’ Awards Entries Now Being Accepted
NEW YORK, April 2 /PRNewswire/ — CeBIT America, the premier information and communications technology (ICT) event for the enterprise business marketplace, today announced that the “Best of CeBIT America” Awards will return to the trade fair for the second year. CeBIT America takes place May 25-27, 2004 at the Javits Center, and the awards ceremony will take place on the show floor on Wednesday, May 26 at 2:00 pm.
Entries are being accepted now through May 14, 2004; the entry form can be found at http://www.cebit-america.com/awards. To be eligible, a product must be announced on or after February 1, 2004 and scheduled to ship to customers on or before July 31, 2004. It needs to be available for public viewing at CeBIT America, in the booth or public meeting room of a contracted CeBIT America exhibitor.
The editors of eWEEK and PC Magazine — both leading Ziff Davis Media publications — will review new products and services and present awards in twelve product categories. One of these will then be determined to be best-of-show and will be named “Best of CeBIT America.”
“The ‘Best of CeBIT America’ Awards will determine the best new products and services in terms of innovation, technical breakthrough, and creativity of design, as judged by the editorial and labs staffs of eWEEK and PC Magazine,” said Mark Dineen, Managing Director of CeBIT America. “The show is an important gathering place for the technology industry, and thus an ideal venue to evaluate new products and services and determine the stand-outs for 2004.”
Categories for this year’s awards are:
* Enterprise IT Hardware: Servers, switches, hubs, wireless LAN access
points/cards, high-volume printers, appliances (other than storage- and
security-specific appliances);
* Enterprise Platform Software: Network operating systems, databases,
application servers, mail servers, instant messaging, load balancing
software, directory systems, application frameworks and software
development/QA/deployment tools;
* Enterprise Storage: SAN hardware and software, NAS hardware and
software, storage management software, enterprise backup software, tape
storage;
* Enterprise Systems Defense: Authentication and access control systems,
PKI, intrusion detection/prevention systems, fire-walls and VPN
software/appliances, wireless LAN security software/appliances,
encryption and security scanners, anti-virus products, security
appliances, backup and restore, UPSs;
* Enterprise Systems Management: Network and server monitoring systems,
network management systems, business process management systems,
software distribution and centralized management tools, diagnostic
tools, patch management software, wireless sniffers;
* Enterprise Applications: Online meeting and conferencing software, CRM,
ERP, supply-chain management systems, help-desk systems, data
integration servers, online storefront systems, analytic systems,
knowledge management solutions, portals, enterprise collaboration
tools, data analysis and reporting tools, forecasting systems, finance
tools, document and content management;
* PCs: desktop, tablet, and portable computers; media center/home
entertainment hubs;
* Mobile and Wireless Devices: phones, PDAs, wireless services for
consumers;
* Personal Hardware: display devices, personal/SOHO storage devices,
gadgets;
* Personal Software: personal/SOHO software, games, consumer-oriented Web
sites and services;
* Digital Imaging: scanners, personal printers, MFPs, cameras, Web
cameras;
* Components: hardware/software components for sale to OEMs, not typical
end-users.
About CeBIT America
Organized by Princeton, NJ-based Hannover Fairs USA, Inc., CeBIT America is the premier Information & Communications Technology (ICT) event for the enterprise business marketplace. Emphasizing the entire spectrum of enterprise technology — systems, applications, networking and communications — this is the only US forum to explore the full range of next generation global technologies and solutions.
CeBIT is the world’s largest and most influential information and communications technology trade fair. The flagship event, CeBIT Hannover, runs for seven days each spring and takes place at the Hannover Fairgrounds in Hannover, Germany. CeBIT Hannover 2003 used 3.7 million square feet of net display space and hosted 6,602 exhibiting companies, 556,200 visitors and 10,711 journalists. CeBIT America joins the annual roster of international CeBIT events that includes — in addition to the original CeBIT in Hannover — CeBIT Asia (Shanghai, China), CeBIT Australia (Sydney), and CeBIT Bilisim Eurasia (Istanbul, Turkey). Visit http://www.cebit-america.com/ for more information.
CeBIT America
CONTACT: Laura E. Wilker of Makovsky & Co., +1-212-508-9656,lwilker@makovsky.com, for CeBIT America
Web site: http://www.cebit-america.com/http://www.cebit-america.com/awards