The nominated IT service offerings for cloud & hosting provide exceptional quality, security, interoperability and performance. With their innovative IT concepts, the nominees ensure the successful digitalisation of business processes - while maximising user-friendliness. Whether it's to do with stable and secure hosting offers for individual requirements or unique cloud services: all of these innovative solutions are highly impressive.

These concepts and tools for data centres and infrastructures are looking far into the future: the nominated companies are helping to operate digital Internet infrastructures and data centres in an increasingly better way. They make data centres particularly energy and resource-efficient, redundant and resilient. They are also highly scalable, physically secure and particularly high performing. These solutions and services provide customers with market advantages and stand out with their innovative strength.

They give cyber criminals no chance: the companies nominated for the eco://award IT security increase the cyber resilience of their customers with exceptional IT services and products. In doing so, they are always one step ahead of hackers and thus make a decisive contribution to the security of corporate networks, endpoints or internal processes and structures. In this manner, they provide significant support for the sustainable economic success of their customers.

These business concepts have the future in sight: the start-ups nominated for the eco://award offer exceptionally innovative digital services. They enable digital business models that deliver significant added value for the economy, the environment and society. The growth potential of these young companies is enormous.

Sustainability is seen as an essential factor for the future and is also a driver of innovation and new technologies that enable conservation of resources in the long term. Nominees are companies from the digital and Internet industry that promote the topic of sustainability with concrete solutions, technologies and applications, or whose own activities make them particularly sustainable.

They are the best of the best: These outstanding women are nominated for the eco://award in the category LiT - Ladies in Tech Award. With the eco://award in the LiT- Ladies in Tech category, we want to give outstanding women in the Internet industry even more visibility and honour their special commitment to diversity and female empowerment.