The 5th annual ARN IT Industry Awards was a glittering night of nights on September 22 held, as in years past, at the Hilton Hotel in Sydney.

This year, the theme for the awards was ‘Channel Strong for 20 years’ and recognised both the on-going strength of the reseller channel and the fact that 2011 is the 20th anniversary of ARN magazine. We are particularly excited about the 5th of these awards as it coincides with the 20-year anniversary of ARN.

We were also able to introduce a new category in the awards; for the first time we recognised the growing involvement that the telecommunications industry has had in IT with four awards for the telecoms.

We are proud to announce this year's list of award winners and highly commended. Without further adieu:

http://www.arnnet.com.au/article/401704/2011_arn_it_industry_awards_winners

Meet the Judges

Again this year, we had overwhelming support from the IT community and were able to have 60 judges represented on our panel: 20 from the distributor ranks, 20 from the vendor camp and 20 from the reseller community. Here’s a full list of our esteemed judges.

http://www.arnnet.com.au/article/383754/meet_judges_/

For the first time we were also able to have nine judges from the telecommunications industry to judge the telecoms category of the awards.

http://www.arnnet.com.au/article/387271/telco_judges_revealed_arn_newest_award_category/

Finally, see below for more information on the awards categories:

2011 Award Categories

http://www.arnnet.com.au/article/383756/2011_award_categories/

New category revealed - Telecommunications

http://www.arnnet.com.au/article/383757/new_category_revealed_-_telecommunications/

We look forward to seeing you all again for the 2012 awards!