April 6-9, 2009
Rosen Shingle Creek
Orlando, Florida
2008 Storage Networking World Best Practices Awards Program
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Storage Networking World Best Practices awards program identifies and acknowledges excellence among users of Storage.
The Finalists in each category will be announced in the September 29th issue of Computerworld. The Honorees will be announced on October 15, 2008 during Storage Networking World, taking place October 13-16, 2008 at the Gaylord Texan in Dallas TX.
We are pleased to announce that the five Finalists in each category are as follows:
In the category of "Innovation and Promise," the five Finalists are:
American Society of Health System Pharmacists, Bethesda, Maryland
Joe Gibbs Racing, Huntersville, North Carolina
LA Valley College, Los Angeles, California
Partners HealthCare, Wellesley, Massachusetts
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois
In the category of "Planning, Designing and Building a Strategic Storage Infrastructure," the five Finalists are:
AOL LLC, New York, New York
East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina
LandAmerica Financial Group, Glen Allen, Virginia
Latin School of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
Tasty Baking Company, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
In the category of "ROI and Best Practices in Green Computing and the Data Center," the five Finalists are:
Hilton Grand Vacations Club, Orlando, Florida
Marina Medical Billing Service, Inc., Cerritos, California
Priority Health, Grand Rapids, Michigan
Sybase, Inc., Dublin, California
U.S. Capitol Police, Washington, DC
In the category of "Selecting and Deploying Storage Networks," the five Finalists are:
Air Force Center for Engineering and the Environment, Brooks City-Base, Texas
CXtec, Syracuse, New York
Stanford University, Palo Alto, California
UNISYS, Lima, Peru
Weiss Group, Jupiter, Florida
In the category of "Storage Reliability and Data Recovery," the five Finalists are:
Howard Rice Nemerovski Canady Falk & Rabkin, San Francisco, California
The Mind Research Network, Albuquerque, New Mexico
The Ohio State University - Office of University Communications, Columbus, Ohio
University of Texas at Brownsville, Brownsville, Texas
ZirMed, Inc., Louisville, Kentucky
Congratulations to our Finalists!
Thank you to our Judges:
Rick Bauer,SNIA Lawrence Di Gioia, City of Altamonte Springs Dale Frantz, Auto Warehousing Company Julia King, Computerworld William Kramer, NERSC Richie Lary, Lary.com Lucas Mearian, Computerworld
Ron Milton, Computerworld Ian Patterson, Scottrade Matthew Reynolds, Howard Rice Nemerovski Canaday Falk & Rabin Chris Saneda, Virginia Credit Union Don Tennant, Computerworld/InfoWorld Ben Woo, IDC
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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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