It Was IBM's Night

A scintillating evening with some music and dance marked the seventh Channel
Choice awards night organized by

DQ Channels in Delhi on March 16. The ceremony, which feted vendors and
representatives from the channel community, witnessed a footfall of around 250
people. The awards were given on the basis of DQ Channels-IDC survey, which aims
to recognize those vendors who are a favorite among channels.This year, IBM
stood as Channel Champion by being the premier choice of the channel community
in almost all the categories while HP slipped to second position winning the
Silver trophy. Among other awardees were Seagate, HCL, APC and Samsung

Team IBM receiving the Gold Channel Champion award from Shyam Malhotra, Editor-in-Chief, CyberMedia Publications	Team HP receiving the Silver Channel Champion award from Shyam Malhotra, Editor-in-Chief, CyberMedia Publications	Sameer Mathur, Head-Solution Partner Organization, HP receiving the award for Branded Desktops category from Puneet Singhal, President, Delhi-based CMDA
Sameer Mathur, Head-Solution Partner Organization, HP receiving the award for Notebooks category from Puneet Singhal, President, Delhi-based CMDA	Vishwanath Ramaswamy of IBM India receving the award for x86 Servers category from Puneet Singhal, President, Delhi-based CMDA	Uday Bhat and Mahesh Kumar Soni (Imaging and Printing Group), HP India receving the award for Laser Printer category from Puneet Singhal, President, Delhi-based CMDA
Sameer Shah, Country Category Manager-Shared Printing and Connectivity, HP India receiving the award for Inkjet Printers category from Vipin Gupta, President, Allahabad Computer Dealers Welfare Association	E Aravind, Regional Sales Manager-North, TVS-E, receiving the award for Dot Matrix Printer category from Vipin Gupta, President, Allahabad Computer Dealers Welfare Association	Sanjay Sharma, VP-IT Division, Samsung, receiving the award for Monitor category from Vipin Gupta, President, Allahabad Computer Dealers Welfare Association
Sandeep Aurora, Director-Sales and Marketing, South Asia, Intel receiving the award for Motherboard category from Vipin Gupta, President, Allahabad Computer Dealers Welfare Association	Rajesh Khurana, Country Manager-India and SAARC, Seagate receiving the award for Hard Disk Drives category from Rajiv Khanna, President, Jalandhar Computer Dealers Association	Sandeep Aurora, Director-Sales and Marketing, South Asia, Intel receiving the award for Processors category from Rajiv Khanna, President, Jalandhar Computer Dealers Association
Tushar Sighat, VP-Channel Business (India and SAARC), D-Link India receiving the award for Networking LAN from Rajiv Khanna, President, Jalandhar Computer Dealers Association	Sameer Mathur, Head-Solution Partner Organization, HP receiving the award for Secondary Storage category from Rajiv Khanna, President, Jalandhar Computer Dealers Association	Tushar Sighat, VP-Channel Business (India and SAARC), D-Link India receiving the award for Wireless LAN from Prasanto Roy, Chief Editor, DQ Channels
Anuj Kudesia, Regional Manager-North, Transactional Business, APC receiving the award for UPS category from Prasanto Roy, Chief Editor, DQ Channels	Vishal Tandon, CDG-North, Kodak receiving the award for Digital Cameras category from Prasanto Roy, Chief Editor, DQ Channels	Hrishi Parthasarathy, Partner Development Manager-Lead, Microsoft receiving the award for Enterprise Application Software category from Prasanto Roy, Chief Editor, DQ Channels
Piyush Saxena and Gandhar Kohli of Symantec receiving the award for Security Solutions category from Prasanto Roy, Chief Editor, DQ Channels	Ketan Patel, Channel Manager, HP India receiving the Silver award for Best Online Support category from RK Malhotra, President, Progressive Channel Association of IT	Suvrat Nanda,Territory Manager-North Central, IBM receiving the Gold award for Best Online Support category from RK Malhotra, President, Progressive Channel Association of IT
Bhushan P Singh, Regional Channel Manager, IBM receiving the Silver award for Best Relationship Management category from RK Malhotra, President, Progressive Channel Association of IT	HCL representative receiving the Gold award for Best Relationship Management category from Rishi Malhotra, President, Progressive Channel Association of IT	HCL representatives receiving the Silver award for Best Commercial Terms category from RK Malhotra, President, Progressive Channel Association of IT
IBM representative receiving the Gold award for the Best Commercial Term category from RK Malhotra, President, Progressive Channel Association of IT	Ketan Patel, Channel Manager, HP India receiving the Silver award for Best Marketing Support category from Brijen Shah, President, CMDA (Pune)	Tarun Thadani, DGM-Marketing and Strategy (System X and blades centre STG) IBM receiving the Gold award for Best Marketing Support category from Brijen Shah, President, CMDA (Pune)
Ketan Patel, Channel Manager, HP India receiving the Silver award for Best Brand Image category from Brijen Shah, President, CMDA (Pune)	Kuldeep Singh, Country Manager-Regional System Integrators, IBM receiving the Gold award for Best Brand Image category from Brijen Shah, President, CMDA (Pune)	HCL representative receiving the Silver award for Best After Sales Support category from Shyam Malhotra, Editor-in-Chief, CyberMedia Publications
Sanjay Khare, Regional Customer Support Manager, IBM receiving the Gold award for Best After Sales Support category from Shyam Malhotra, Editor-in-Chief, CyberMedia Publications	Rajesh Khurana of Seagate receiving the Silver award for Best Product Quality category from Shyam Malhotra, Editor-in-Chief, CyberMedia Publications	Rajesh Sehgal, GM-STG (North), Cross Server-Sales, IBM receiving the Gold award for Best Product Quality category from Shyam Malhotra, Editor-in-Chief, CyberMedia Publications