"Best Practices in Storage" Awards Program
The “Best Practices in Storage” Honorees were announced on Tuesday, April 7th during SNW, which took place April 6-9, 2009 at the Rosen Shingle Creek Resort in Orlando, Florida.
We are pleased to announce that the Honorees and Finalists in each category are as follows:
In the category of “Innovation and Promise:”
Honoree:
Activision Publishing, Inc. (Santa Monica, California)
Finalists:
Argus Information & Advisory Systems, White Plains, New York
Cigna - Health Insurance, Windsor, Connecticut
In the category of “Planning, Designing and Building a Strategic Storage Infrastructure:”
Honoree:
Applied Materials Corporation (Austin, Texas)
Finalists:
Cancer Treatment Centers of America, Schaumburg, Illinois
City of Altamonte Springs, Altamonte Springs, Florida
In the category of “ROI and Best Practices in Green Computing and the Data Center:”
Honoree:
Burt’s Bees (Morrisville, North Carolina)
Finalists:
ROEL Construction, San Diego, California
San Diego Data Processing Center (SDDPC), San Diego, California
In the category of “Selecting and Deploying Storage Networks:”
Honoree:
City of Altamonte Springs (Altamonte Springs, Florida)
Finalists:
LSI Corporation, Milpitas, California
Penson Financial Services, Dallas, Texas
In the category of “Storage Reliability and Data Recovery:”
Honoree:
State of Michigan, Department of Information Technology (Lansing, Michigan)
Finalists:
Herbalife, Los Angeles, California
Infosys Technologies Limited, Bangalore, Karnataka
Congratulations to our Honorees and Finalists!
Thank you to our Judges:
Rick Bauer SNIA
Julia King Computerworld
Ellen Lary Lary.com
Richie Lary Lary.com
Lucas Mearian Computerworld
Ron Milton Computerworld
Mark O'Gara Highmark, Inc.
Chris Saneda Virginia Credit Union
Mark Showers Mark E Showers Advisory Services, Inc
Jim Swartz Sybase, Inc.
Don Tennant Computerworld
John Webster Illuminata, Inc.
Ben Woo IDC
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Best Practices in Storage Award Categories
Innovation and Promise:
Successful "pioneering" of leading/bleeding-edge storage networking technology will be recognized in this category. The ability to overcome early adoption obstacles and to resolve problems ("in-house" or via unique vendor/integrator/other user partnerships, etc.,) will be assessed. Considers promising technologies (for example, Information Lifecycle Management) and deployments addressing ongoing challenges such as growth in data management.
Planning, Designing and Building a Strategic Storage Infrastructure:
Recognizes organizations that have created a well-developed blueprint for deployment success, including strategic storage vision, risk management and cost/benefit justification. Demonstrates the deployment of a storage infrastructure that allows users to easily access stored data of all types. The infrastructure should take into account access to legacy systems, security, disaster recovery, backup and restore, and global management. Submissions should reference the unique design and implementation of the infrastructure.
ROI and Best Practices in Green Computing and the Data Center:
This category includes one or more of these three areas:The nominations may highlight the business and economic impact of green IT initiatives. The convergence of pressures to reduce IT operational costs and the need to be more energy efficient presents new opportunities. The nomination may highlight challenges, initiatives and improvements in energy consumption and a transition to sustainable computing models. Enterprise-wide efforts would be appropriate. The nomination may highlight data center-based challenges, initiatives and solutions to become greener is growing to be an important operational area for IT management attention. All green IT data center and virtualization initiatives may be included.
Selecting and Deploying Storage Networks:
Submissions should describe the successful selection and deployment of a SAN, NAS, and/or object-based storage. Please cover in detail pertinent areas such as data migration, scalability, interoperability, and implementation considerations and tips.
Storage Reliability and Data Recovery:
Acknowledges implementation strategies and programs to insure highly available information and data access. Examples of "business continuance" initiatives (back-up plans, staging, performance testing/projections, etc.) will be key considerations. Successful recovery examples from an actual data access disruption should be described. Summary analysis of restart/recovery factors (time to restart and restore, data loss, etc.) is essential.
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