Over 300 channel partners from across western part of the country gathered to cheer the winners at the 11th annual The DQ Week Awards, which were held in Mumbai. The event saw partners from the western region being honored for their outstanding performance during FY' 08-09.

While Sify was the title sponsor for the awards night, other vendors who were associated with the awards included D-Link and DigiLink, K7 Computing, Supertron Electronics, Delta and Lexmark. While Kingston was the Memory Partner, the Beverage Partner was Royal Challenge and Information Infrastructure Award Partner was EMC.

The evening commenced with a speech from Ibrahim Ahmad, Group Editor, The DQ Week who spoke about the significant role played by the channel partners in driving the IT industry successfully. This was followed by a visual presentation from Sify wherein they provided an insight into the various products and initiatives being introduced for the channel partners. Anil Pant, VP-Channel Sales, Sify and Shiv Nath Ghosh, VP-Enterprise Application Services, Sify suggested ways to ensure profits during the slowdown. Sachin Mahajan of Infinite Net Solutions, one of Sify's prominent partners in Mumbai threw light on the edge that his business acquired after partnering with Sify.

The event was also supported by Mumbai-based Trade Association of Information Technology (TAIT). During the event, Rushabh Shah, TAIT member gave a brief about TAIT and its upcoming expo COM IT. Praveen Dhoka and Umang Mehta of TAIT presented The DQ Week-TAIT Upcoming Entrepreneur Award to Atul Shah and Haresh Gadda of Mumbai-based Network Techlabs.

The largest round of applause was when TAIT was handed over the trophy for being the Best IT Association of India. The award was conferred on TAIT after a countrywide survey which was done by DQ Channels and IDC. The association took home the trophy for the fourth time in a row. The entire team of TAIT gathered on the stage to receive the trophy.

Thanking The DQ Week and DQ Channels team, Rushab Shah of TAIT shared, “We would keep the momentum going and will raise issues affecting the IT channel partners across the city.”

Every year, the annual awards are decided by an independent jury, comprising of eminent personalities of the IT industry, who are closely aligned with the channel partners.

PUJA SHARMA
poojas@cybermedia.co.in

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