Silverlinings 2023 Cloud Innovation Awards Finalists include: 

Best Cloud Sustainability Initiative 

• Cisco Systems: Cisco UCS X-Series Modular System 
• Iron Mountain Data Centers: 24/7 Carbon Free Energy 
• VMware: VMware’s Telco Sustainability Framework 

Best Cloud Artificial Intelligence Solution 

• Dynatrace: Dynatrace Davis AI 
• EnterpriseWeb: Telco-grade generative AI for intent-based orchestration 
• Nutanix: Nutanix GPT-in-a-Box 
• VMware: VMware Network Scorecard rApp 

Best Cloud Automation Solution 

• Console Connect: CloudRouter 
• IBM: IBM Hybrid Cloud Mesh 
• Itential: Itential Automation Platform 
• Microsoft: Azure Operator Service Manager 

Best Cloud-Native 5G Solution 

• Blue Planet, a division of Ciena: 5G End-to-End Network Slicing Automation Solution 
• Intel: 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable Processor with Intel vRAN Boost 
• Marvell: Marvell OCTEON 10 Fusion 
• Samsung Networks: vRAN 3.0 
• Huawei: Huawei Full-Series 5.5G Solutions

Best Cloud Data Center Solution 

• DriveNets: Network Cloud-AI 
• Marvell: Marvell Nova 1.6 Tbps PAM4 electro-optics platform 
• Vertiv: Vertiv Liebert XDU 
• Amdocs: Amdocs Executable Cloud-Native Blueprints-In-A-Box 

Best Cloud Networking Solution (Public, Private or Hybrid) 

• Aviatrix: Aviatrix 
• Cloudbrink: The Cloudbrink Service 
• F5: F5 Distributed Cloud Services 
• Microsoft: Azure Operator Nexus 
• Ericsson: Ericsson Cloud Native Infrastructure