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Winners galore at the 11th annual DQ Week North awards

CIOL Bureau

06 Jul 2009 00:00 IST

Updated On 06 Jul 2009 23:03 IST

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NEW DELHI, INDIA: Channel partners from all over north India gathered at Hotel Inter-Continental Eros in Nehru Place to witness the 11th Annual DQ Week awards on July 6.

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The 400 strong crowd took part in the felicitation of the people who have made an indelible impression on the IT channel community of North India in the last year.

Sify was the title sponsor for the awards, while D-Link and DigiLink, K7 Computing, Supertron Electronics and Delta were the associate sponsor. Also associated with the awards were Sybase as the Business Intelligence Partner Sybase, Royal Challenge as the Beverage Partner and Information Infrastructure Award Partner EMC.

The award night was supported by twin channel partner associations of Delhi, PCAIT and CMDA.
In his opening speech, Ibrahim Ahmad, Group Editor, The DQ Week thanked the channel community for their attendance.

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He spoke about the positive aspects of the national budget, which was announced. Ahmad also touched upon the 'Unique ID Card Project' undertaken by the government and headed by Nandan Nilekani. He elaborated that the channel partners have a big role to play in bringing the project to prominence and propelling it to success.

The crowd were then treated to a visual presentation by Sify, the title sponsor of the event. Anil Pant, VP—Channel Sales, Sify and Shiv Nath Ghosh, VP Enterprise Application Services, Sify spoke about the importance of making profit during this downturn and how a partnership with Sify can allow the channel community can achieve just that.

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Soon afterwards, the award ceremony went underway and the crowd cheered as presentations were made by various distinguished members of the IT community. The list of the award 11th Annual DQ Week award winners are as follows: