SNW Spring 2010
 
SNW's Best Practices Awards

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Winners Announced for SNW's Best Practices Awards Program!

SNW in conjunction with Computerworld and the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) announces the Finalists and Winners for the “Best Practices” Awards Program, sponsored by Oracle.

The Finalists in each category were announced in the April 5th issue of Computerworld.  The Winners were announced on Wednesday, April 14, 2010 during SNW, which took place April 12-15, 2010 at the Rosen Shingle Creek Resort in Orlando, Florida.  

The winners for SNW’s Spring 2010 Best Practices Awards Program are:

In the category of “Green Computing, Energy Efficiency and the Data Center:”
Earth Rangers, Woodbridge, Canada
        
In the category of “Planning, Designing and Building a Next Generation Storage and Server Infrastructure:”
Wells Fargo and Company, San Francisco, California

In the category of “Storage Resiliency, Data Protection and Recovery:”
State Street Corporation, Boston, Massachusetts

In the category of “Technology Innovation and Promise:”
The Greater Educational Opportunities Foundation, Indianapolis, Indiana

In the category of “Virtualization and Cloud Computing:”
Kelley Blue Book, Irvine, California

 
The five finalists in each category are:

Best Practices in Green Computing, Energy Efficiency and the Data Center:

CalTech (California Institute of Technology), Pasadena, California
Earth Rangers, Woodbridge, Canada
Infosys Technologies, Bangalore, India
Reliance Tech Services, Navi Mumbai, India
United Natural Foods Inc. (UNFI), Providence, Rhode Island

Best Practices in Planning, Designing and Building a Next Generation Storage and Server Infrastructure: 

General Motors, Detroit, Michigan
NetApp, Sunnyvale, California
Salem Hospital, Salem, Oregon
Welch Food Inc., Concord, Massachusetts
Wells Fargo and Company, San Francisco, California

Best Practices in Storage Resiliency, Data Protection and Recovery:

American Society of Health-System Pharmacists, Bethesda, Maryland
Interbank FX, Salt Lake City, Utah
St. Luke's Health System, Boise, Idaho
State Street Corporation, Boston, Massachusetts
Town of South Windsor, South Windsor, Connecticut

Best Practices in Technology Innovation and Promise:
 
Applied Materials, Austin, Texas
County of Dinwiddie, Dinwiddie, Virginia
Orlando Magic, Orlando, Florida
Renew Data Corp, Austin, Texas
The Greater Educational Opportunities Foundation, Indianapolis, Indiana

Best Practices in Virtualization and Cloud Computing:
 
Kelley Blue Book, Irvine, California
Lionbridge Technologies, Waltham, Massachusetts
Orbital Sciences Corporation, Chandler, Arizona
Partners Healthcare, Charlestown, Massachusetts
Sprint, Overland Park, Kansas

Congratulations to our Finalists!

Thank you to our Judges:
Jon Brodkin, Network World
Brian Carlson, CIO.com
Lucas Mearian, Computerworld
Norman Owens, Carlson, Inc
Jackson Shea, SNIA
David  Stevens, Carnegie Mellon University