Two Bermuda technology companies, Sbi and QuoVadis, have been awarded the Microsoft Fusion Award for Infrastructure.

Lionel Sacon of Microsoft presented the award to Sbi for the companies' work on the QuoVadis certificate authority.

Sbi is a Microsoft Certified Gold Partner for Enterprise Systems, the highest certification for Microsoft partners who deal with large scale enterprise deployments as well as complex server design and planning projects.

Sbi was selected from among 800 entries from Microsoft Certified partners around the world for one of these prestigious awards.

QuoVadis chief executive officer Tony Nagel said: "We are pleased that Sbi has received international recognition for their advanced work in building QuoVadis' critical infrastructure."

He added that they were the first commercial certificate authority to be licensed offshore and the first to run on Windows 2000 advanced server.

Sbi chief executive officer Jamie Thain said: "The QuoVadis implementation takes advantage of the many advanced features of Windows 2000 such as clustering, active directory, high system availability, and IPSec.

"Our highly skilled team of Microsoft certified Systems Engineers (MCSE) worked closely with the QuoVadis team to build an extremely stable public key infrastructure. In addition, the entire build was audited to meet the high security needs of a certificate authority."

In addition to its work building the QuoVadis Windows 2000 platform, Sbi has experience implementing QuoVadis digital certificates in clients' Windows 2000 environments and applications, enabling users to send encrypted mail, sign online documents, and have strong access control to information over the Internet.

Pictured: Fusion Award: Two Bermuda-based technology companies, Sbi and QuoVadis, were recently singled out for recognition by Microsoft in its annual Certified Partner Fusion Awards. Pictured from left are Lionel Sacon of Microsoft who presented the award to Stephen Davidson (middle) of Quo Vadis and Jamie Thain of Sbi Limited.