Top North partners awarded

Channel partners and industry leaders from all over North India gathered in
Delhi to witness the 11th Annual The DQ Week awards on July 6. The 400 strong
crowd took part in the felicitation of the people who have made an indelible
impression on the IT channel community of the region in the last year.

Sify was the title sponsor for the awards, while D-Link and Digilink, K7
Computing, Supertron Electronics and Delta were the associate sponsors. Also
associated with the awards were Sybase as the Business Intelligence Partner,
Royal Challenge as the Beverage Partner and EMC as the Information
Infrastructure Award Partner.

The awards night was supported by channel associations of Delhi, Progressive
Channels Association Of IT (PCAIT) and Computer Media Dealers Association (CMDA).

In his opening speech, Ibrahim Ahmad, Group Editor, The DQ Week thanked the
channel community for their attendance. He spoke about the positive aspects of
the national budget, which was announced on July 6. Ahmad also touched upon the
'Unique ID Card Project' undertaken by the government and headed by Nandan
Nikelani. He elaborated that the channel partners have a big role to play in
bringing the project to prominence and propelling it to success.

The evening kicked off with a visual presentation by Sify, the title sponsor
of the event. Anil Pant, VP-Channel Sales, Sify and Shiv Nath Ghosh,
VP-Enterprise Application Services, Sify spoke about the importance of making
profit during this downturn and how a partnership with Sify can allow the
channel community to achieve just that. The company also invited on stage one of
its prominent partners to tell the gathering about the benefits of doing
business with Sify and also the edge that the companies services offering
provide to the channel partners.

Talking about the difference that Sify has made to his business Rajan Arora
of Megahertz Infotech said that one of the things he liked about working with
Sify was the high level of assistance that the company provides to its channel
partners. On a personal note, Arora informed the audience that since he had
partnered with Sify, because of their offerings he was now able to add an
additional revenue of Rs 40-50 lakh per month.

Anil Sachdev of Kadam Marketing receiving the Gold award in Best Sub-distributor category for Delhi from PK Roy, Chief Editor, The DQ Week	The DQ Week-CMDA Upcoming Entrepreneur of the year award was bagged by Sumangalam International. Puneet Singhal, President, CMDA gave away the award to Sudhir Midha

Soon afterwards, the award ceremony went underway and the crowd cheered as
presentations were made by various distinguished members of the IT community.

The evening also saw some special awards being given away in conjunction with
channel associations. The DQ Week-CMDA Upcoming Entrepreneur of the year award
was bagged Sumangalam International. Puneet Singhal, President, CMDA gave away
the award to Sudhir Midha.

PCAIT awarded the annual The DQ Week-PCAIT Ashish Aggarwal Memorial Trophy which went to Gurpreet Singh Bhatia of Arrow Technologies

The most touching moment of the ceremony was when PCAIT awarded the annual
The DQ Week-PCAIT Ashish Aggarwal Memorial Trophy. In a speech delivered
straight from the heart, Saket Kapur, General Secretary, PCAIT recalled with
fondness Ashish. Reminiscing about Ashish, Kapur said, “Ashish was a go-getter.
The amount that he achieved in a short time was amazing. He took over a well
established business from his dad and then went on to take it to bigger heights.
He was snatched away from us very early but we all recall the qualities that
made him special. And those are the very same qualities that we see in our
winner Gurpreet.”

The entire executive council of PCAIT came on the stage to honor Gurpreet
Singh Bhatia of Arrow Technologies.