Advanced autonomics solution considered for ‘Infrastructure Innovation of the Year’ award

London, 11 October 2011: IPsoft, a provider of autonomic IT management services, today announces that is has been named as a finalist in the UK IT Industry Awards 2011. Lauded for its market leading autonomic IT management product, IPcenter, IPsoft beat off a host of other entrants to be considered for the ‘Infrastructure Innovation of the Year’ award.

The BCS & Computing UK IT Industry Awards are a platform for the entire profession to celebrate best practice, innovation and excellence. The Infrastructure Innovation of the Year is awarded to an innovative new product or service that has delivered measurable benefit for customers in areas such as data centre, networking, systems management, server hardware and software, storage, application development, IT support or other business infrastructure applications.

“We are all incredibly proud that IPsoft has been named as a finalist in these awards”, said Terry Walby, UK MD, IPsoft. “It is testament to the hard work that our engineers put in to ensuring that our state-of-the-art technology is years ahead of the competition. IPcenter aligns service delivery with business goals. It’s a solution that delivers a fully consolidated end-to-end automation framework – once implemented it can resolve 56% of incidents with no human intervention at all and reduce the average mean time to resolution by 60%. It’s great to see our technology is being endorsed so avidly by our customers, and proves that our solutions are truly innovative and ahead of the market.”

David Clarke, Chief Executive Officer, BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT, says: “Congratulations to the finalists; the competition to reach this stage of our prestigious Awards is tough. Our Awards are central to our mission to recognise the innovation and professionalism of those working in IT and I’m delighted that every year we have such a variety of high quality entries. They are an excellent reflection of the impact IT has on so many aspects of our information society and the potential IT has to transform business, society and our lives.”

The winners of the awards will be announced at a gala dinner on 10th November hosted by BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT, and Computing, one of the UK’s top IT publications.