Star spangled night

New Delhi

July 8, 2008

The 10th annual DQ Week Delhi Awards Night, held last night in Delhi was well
received by the vendor and channel community alike. The event saw participation
from 450 partners across northern India. Two of the most prominent associations
of North India-Progressive Channels Association of Information Technology or
PCAIT and Computer Media Dealer's Association (CMDA), Delhi, supported the
glittering awards night. Intellisys and Sify were the presenting sponsors, while
Gigabyte, D-Link, Microworld, Epson, Agile Labs and Delta Peripherals were the associate sponsors.

Like every year, the awardees were decided by a jury, which included eminent
people from the industry. The panel this year comprised Princy Bhatnagar of
Xerox; Mukesh Choudhary and BK Khatri of Ingram Micro and Sharad Shrivastav of
Western Digital.

The event started with the screening of a short video, briefing CyberMedia's
successful journey over 25 years, followed by a keynote address by Prasanto
Kumar Roy, President and Chief Editor, CyberMedia Publications.

Following it was a presentation from Suamen Chakraborty, CEO, Intellisys
Technologies and Research, who briefed about company's portfolio of products
and services.

Sify took this as an opportunity to launch 'Sify thin client'. Anil Pant,
VP-Channel Sales, Sify held some quizzes and stress bursting exercises for
partners, lightening the atmosphere. Being the loyalist and one of the oldest
partners of Sify from North India, Col Balwindar Singh of Targus was invited to
launch the product.

The awards were interposed with fun quiz questions, which got the crowd on
their feet and asking for more. This year, two new award categories were
constituted-The DQ Week-CMDA-Delhi Upcoming Entrepreneur Of The Year award
and the Ashish Aggarwal Memorial Trophy for Upcoming Entrepreneur Of The Year
award. These were bagged by DataLink Industrial Corporation and MK Infosystems,
respectively.

In all 40 partners were awarded. The awards ceremony came to an end with a
lucky draw by D-Link.

List of winners for north region 2008

J&K

Srinagar: Aman Technologies

Jammu: AGM Sales Corporation

HIMACHAL PRADESH

Shimla: Ace Infotech Solutions

HARYANA

Ambala: Computer Touch

Gurgaon: (Best System Integration) Progression Infonet and (Best
Sub-distributor) PG Microsystems

Karnal: Horizon Systems

PUNJAB

Amritsar: NV Computers

Ludhiana: Secant Technologies

Chandigarh

Best System Integrator: Fore Solutions

Best Retail: Beyond Computers

Best Sub-distributor: Paramatrix

RAJASTHAN

Jaipur: (Best System Integrator) Bits&Bytes and (Best Sub-distributor)
Kanchan Computech

Udaipur: Tayal Software Consultancy

MADHYA PRADESH

Bhopal: Latest Infotech

Gwalior: Porwal Enterprises

Indore: Computer Gallery

Jabalpur: Microland Computers

UTTAR PRADESH

Agra: MKG Infotech

Allahabad: Stek Systems

Ghaziabad: Aadhar Computech

Gorakhpur: Jalan Distributors

Jhasi: Comtech Computers

Kanpur: Comexcell Technologies

Lucknow: Login UPtech

Meerut: Foretek Systems

Varanasi: Jwala Distributors

UTTRANCHAL

Dehradun: Strategic Marketing

DELHI

SOFTWARE RESELLER

Futuresoft Solutions

MEDIA RESELLER

Modcare

RETAIL

Gold: Computer Land

Silver: Unique Infoways

SI

Gold: Team Computers

Silver: PC Solutions

RESELLER

Gold: Computer Empire

Silver: Computer Land

SUB DISTI:

Gold: Elcom Trading

Silver: Park Group