SYDNEY, Australia-May 22,
2009- NetApp (NASDAQ: NTAP) has honoured the winners of
the 2008 NetApp Innovation Awards at an awards ceremony today in
San Jose, California. The NetApp Innovation Awards recognise
customers who implemented NetApp® solutions in an innovative
way to positively impact their business.
More than 300 nominees competed for awards
this year in the following seven categories: Innovator of the Year,
Enterprise Business Applications, Enterprise Infrastructure, Green,
Public Sector, Individual, and Humanitarian. One winner and two
finalists were selected in each category by a third-party panel of
judges that consisted of distinguished business and technology
experts from the media and business communities. The Innovator of
the Year category recognises one winner from each of the following
three global geographies: Americas, APAC, and EMEA.
"NetApp Innovation Awards honour NetApp
customers who have demonstrated the most creativity, thought
leadership, and best practices and embody the NetApp 'can do' and
'create a model company' spirit," said Dan Warmenhoven, chairman
and CEO of NetApp. "We were impressed with the calibre of the
nominees, finalists, and winners of this year's awards, which
illustrates how our customers have harnessed the power of NetApp
solutions in innovative ways to improve their storage efficiency
and enable customer breakthroughs."
2008 NetApp Innovation Award
Winners:
- Innovator of the Year-Americas: Cisco
- Innovator of the Year-APAC: Suncorp Group
- Innovator of the Year-EMEA: T-Systems
- Enterprise Business Application: Tucson
Electric Power Company
- Enterprise Infrastructure: HSN
- Green: AISO.net
- Public Sector: Vulnerability Lifecycle
Management System
- Individual: Tres Vance, Manager of Technical
Infrastructure, Burt's Bees
- Humanitarian: Catholic Healthcare West
2008 NetApp Innovation Award
Finalists:
- Innovator of the Year-Americas: Vulnerability
Lifecycle Management System and Sprint
- Enterprise Business Application: Lincoln
Financial Group and Quintiles Transnational Corp.
- Enterprise Infrastructure: Boston Scientific
Corporation
- Green: Sprint and Revlon
- Public Sector: Las Vegas Valley Water District
and Sacramento County Department of Human Assistance
- Individual: Seth Georgion, Manager of IT/IS at
Fugro; Bill Schlough, Senior Vice President and Chief Information
Officer, San Francisco Giants; and Dave Woolley, Director,
Strategic IT Initiatives, San Francisco Giants
- Humanitarian: Advanced Micro Devices and San
Francisco Giants
Jeff Smith, Suncorp's group executive for
business technology, said innovative business practices were
critical, particularly in times of economic downturn.
"It is critical that companies continually
look for ways to innovate and find more efficient ways to conduct
their core business activities, and this becomes even more
important in the challenging economic environment we are now
responding to," Mr Smith said.
"Suncorp's business technology team has
consistently looked for new ways to deliver services more
efficiently, including through our Agile program, and is proud that
our achievements have been recognised through the NetApp Innovation
Awards."
The NetApp Innovation Awards program
distinguishes itself by relying on a prestigious third-party panel
of judges for the seven main categories. These judges determine the
award winners based on their outside expertise and a critical,
unbiased assessment of real-world NetApp deployments at customer
sites.
Innovation Award judges for 2008
included:
- Pascal Boulard, Editor, La Tribune
- Peter Friess, President, The Tech Museum
- Rachael King, Writer, BusinessWeek
- Carsten Knop, Editor, Frankfurter Allgemeine
Zeitung
- Chris Mellor, Storage Editor, The Register
- Allan Tan, Content Director,
SearchStorageAsia.com
- Larry Walsh, Vice President and Group Publisher, Davis
Enterprise's Channel Insider
For more information about the awards and the
2008 winners and finalists, please visit
http://www.netapp.com/au/company/our-story/innovation-awards/2008winners.html.
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