digital transformation

The road to digital transformation requires efficiency, productivity, agility and speed. Your organization has made big strides in optimizing, integrating and modernizing your infrastructure, architectures, applications, processes and policies so as to achieve operational excellence and enable continual innovation. You are able to maintain security and compliance, support current infrastructure and applications, as well as provide resources for new developmental workloads. Share with us how you did it, and what you’re going to do next. Everyone else’s future plans may depend on it.

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Evaluation Criteria

This category showcases organizations that have successfully addressed IT challenges and delivered business value to effectively compete as a digital enterprise.

hybrid cloud infrastructure

With an open hybrid cloud infrastructure, your IT organization is better serving your business by delivering more agile and flexible solutions. At the same time, you’re protecting business assets and preparing for the future by securing your infrastructure and cloud development. You’ve closed the gap between the needs of your business and the expectations of what IT can deliver. Developers and technologists work together to create tools for building and managing public and private clouds. This is now part of your daily routine. And you have the results to prove its value. Tell us how your organization is collaborating to build the kind of cloud that your business needs to thrive.

Evaluation Criteria

This category showcases a collaborative public, private, or open hybrid cloud deployment.

cloud-native development

Increasingly complicated applications—and demands for faster development—are putting even more pressure on infrastructure, IT teams, and processes. But you’ve reduced friction between development and operations, simplified application deployment, and accelerated delivery cycles. You’re now using microservices, containers, and/or DevOps processes to free yourself from maintaining old, physical environments and optimize cost. You’re able to manage and secure your apps consistently across multiple environments—physical, virtual, and both private and public cloud environments. All of this allows you to deliver value to the line of business and your customers faster. Share your journey of building a modern application infrastructure.

Evaluation Criteria

This category showcases agile methodologies and organizations that have most successfully illustrates superior overall performance in creating, maintaining, and deploying successful business applications.

automation

The market realities and demands are causing IT organizations to look for automation and management solutions so as to proactively deploy, optimize, secure, and automate their IT environments, enabling them to accelerate innovation and growth that spans the entirety of their enterprise IT. You’re able to automate routine IT tasks to save time and increase stability, and reduce IT environment complexity through automation.

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Evaluation Criteria

This category showcases the project that most successfully automated processes, workflows, tasks and IT operations to rapidly implement innovative and disruptive technologies and practices.

resilience

The recent few years have been that of uncertainty. We recognize and, also would like to applaud how organizations are navigating through changes to help the people weather the storm.

This category showcases organizations that have successfully displayed agility and resilience amidst the changing conditions to help its customers address the new normal using Red Hat technology.

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Evaluation Criteria

This category showcases organizations that have successfully displayed agility and resilience amidst the changing conditions to help its customers address the new normal using Red Hat technology.

Note: The categories above do not reflect the number of awards that will be distributed. Entrants may win in only one Country, namely, Australia & New Zealand, Bangladesh, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam. The judging panel will present up to the maximum number of Awards allowed per Country as listed in the Terms & Conditions depending on the quality of nominations received.