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INDUSTRY-STANDARD SERVERS Winner: Cisco UCS X-Fabric With PCIe Node For GPU Workloads

IT INFRASTRUCTURE MONITORING AND MANAGEMENT Winner: Cisco ThousandEyes WAN Insights

The Cisco UCS X-Fabric offering is a combination of two products: the Cisco UCS X9416 X-Fabric Module, which provides a PCIe Gen 4 fabric, and the Cisco UCS

IT departments require new ways to navigate today’s internet- centric realities where visibility into cloud and internet networks is critical. ThousandEyes WAN

Insights, a new product within the ThousandEyes Platform, is a pivotal first step toward delivering on the Cisco Predictive Networks vision, starting with customers’ SD-WAN environ- ment. ThousandEyes WAN Insights enables enterprises to move from reactive to preventative when providing automated, self- optimizing networks and services. WAN Insights enables IT to improve operational efficiency and assurance of application experi- ence by continuously analyzing performance data and applying predictive models to forecast conditions and recommend actions.

X440p PCIe Node, which hosts GPUs. This new offering adds GPUs to UCS X-Series modular servers to address many appli- cations, including artificial intelligence and machine learning applications, that need specialized infrastructure to make them perform at their best. The UCS X440p PCIe Node allows up to four GPUs to be added to Cisco UCS X210c and UCX X410c Compute Nodes in conjunction with the UCS X9416 X-Fabric Module.

Finalists: GoTo Resolve Riverbed Alluvio IQ Virtana IPM CloudMonitor

IT AUTOMATION, ROBOTIC PROCESS AUTOMATION Winner: ElectroNeek Intelligent Automation Platform

LAPTOPS AND MOBILE DEVICES Winner: Lenovo ThinkPad Z16

Lenovo calls the ThinkPad Z16, one of the company’s premier AMD-based laptop offerings, the very definition of progressive performance. The sophisticated 16-inch laptop is powered by the AMD Ryzen Pro 6000H series

ElectroNeek is an intelligence automation platform empower- ing MSPs and their customers with cutting-edge technology that seamlessly automates busi- ness processes end to end. This

withAMD Radeon RX6500M graphics and SmartShift technology. The laptop exceeds the demands of today’s work-from-anywhere workforce, according to Lenovo, and is geared for performance users. Its chassis is built with recycled aluminum for environmen- tal diligence and its modern design is focused on broadening the appeal of the ThinkPad line.

MSP-oriented platform offers a wide range of low-code auto- mation tools based on robotic process automation, intelligence document processing, artificial intelligence and GPT-4 (conver- sational and generative) technologies. ElectroNeek allows MSPs to build automation and monetize it within one single platform.

Finalists: Appian Platform–Data Fabric

Finalist: Acer Chromebook R841LT

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