Computerworld SNW Best Practices in Storage Winners

April 6-9, 2009
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Orlando, Florida




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SNW "Best Practices in Storage" Awards Program
Storage Networking World, Fall 2005

"Best Practices in Storage"
Award Winners were recognized

at Storage Networking World in Orlando

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Congratulations to the winners!

Storage Networking World (SNW), in conjunction with Computerworld and the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA), honors these IT user-organizations with its SNW "Best Practices in Storage" Awards Program. Two Awards and three Honorable Mentions were presented for each of the five categories.

Systems Implementation

Award Recipients:

Cerner Corp

Lee's Summit, Missouri

Community Health

Indianapolis, Indiana

Honorable Mention:

Coppin State University

Baltimore, Maryland

Nationwide

Columbus, Ohio

Saint Luke's Health System

Lee's Summit, Missouri

Storage Reliability and Data Recovery

Award Recipients:

Carnegie Mellon University

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

William Beaumont Hospitals

Royal Oak, Michigan

Honorable Mention:

Primus Telecommunications

Etobicoke, Ontario

Key Agency

Englewood, Florida

National Instruments

Austin, Texas

Data Lifecycle Management

Award Recipients:

Palmetto Health

Columbia, South Carolina

SMART Communications, Inc.

Makati City, Philippines

Honorable Mention:

Arup

London, England

Cancer Therapy and Research Center (CTRC)

San Antonio, Texas

Pacific Life Insurance Company

Newport Beach, California

Industry Regulation Compliance and Corporate Governance

Award Recipients:

Dallas Morning News

Dallas TX

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

New York NY

Honorable Mention:

Ferrellgas

Overland Park, Kansas

Leesport Financial Corporation

Reading, Pennsylvania

Palmetto Health

Columbia, South Carolina

Innovation and Promise

Award Recipients:

Baptist Memorial Health Care Corporation

Memphis, Tennessee

Navy Surface Combat Systems Center

Wallops Island, Virginia

Honorable Mention:

AFLAC

Columbus, Georgia

Mohawk Industries

Calhoun, Georgia

Pratt & Whitney

East Hartford, Connecticut

Awards Program Judges

Wendy Betts	Hewitt Associates
Dennis Anderson	Pace University
Bruce Hoard	SNWOnline.com
Richard Villars	IDC
I.H Tyler	Quaker Chemical
Julia King	Computerworld
Tony Fuller	Rent-A-Center
Laurence Whittaker	HBC
Dale Frantz	Auto Warehousing Company
Greg Schultz	Evaluator Group
Bruce Thompson	SanTech Consulting
Rick Peltz	Marcus & Millichap
Greg Schulz	Evaluator Group

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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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