Best of VMworld 2017 US Award winners

Ryann Burnett, Managing Editor

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Virtualization and Cloud Infrastructure 2017 winner

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Designer: Megan Cassello

The Virtualization and Cloud Infrastructure category recognizes products designed to enable organizations to build virtual infrastructures, including compute and storage hardware, as well as products designed to manage or virtualize hardware, such as software-defined storage.

Winner: Stratoscale; Stratoscale Symphony 3.0

What the judges said: Allows you to develop against AWS APIs without moving to AWS.

Finalist: Loom Systems; Loom Cloud Intelligence

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