Innovation Awards 2012

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Nominations For The 2012 Innovation Awards Are Now Closed

The NetApp Innovation Awards recognize the companies and the people that are aggressively and innovatively leveraging technology to make IT dramatically more proactive, productive, and essential to creating business value. These organizations and individuals are thinking differently about what is required to compete in the future: a future involving NetApp as a key partner.

Award recipients are honored for achieving positive and impactful business results using NetApp® technology, demonstrating creativity and thought leadership in storage best practices and embodying the NetApp "can do" and "create a model company" spirit. NetApp Innovation Award categories include:

Efficiency Innovation
Efficiency innovators are at the forefront of virtualizing their data centers when using a NetApp® shared infrastructure. They are changing the economics of IT within their organizations—minimizing the time, resources, and effort of running IT services—and freeing up those resources to be deployed in other parts of the business. Because of these efforts, these companies are using quantifiably less budget for equipment, people, power, space, and capacity—with the end benefits of decreasing complexities and increasing operational efficiency.
Flexibility Innovation
Flexibility innovators have created dynamic technology infrastructures that rapidly respond to changing business requirements, thereby enabling technology to scale or contract to drive measurable business value. This agility has allowed these organizations to capitalize on opportunities by expanding into new markets, managing change, developing new products, mitigating risk, and so on in quantifiable ways.
Visionary Leadership
Visionary Leadership highlights the people who have broken the mold, challenged the status quo, and/or overcome obstacles to move their businesses forward and position themselves more competitively in the marketplace. These visionaries are at the forefront of using technology as a tool for innovation within their organizations and would be seen by people inside and outside the company as true innovators.

In addition to these categories, the top nominations from all categories will be judged in a special Innovator of the Year category, which will recognize one winner from the US Public Sector and one winner from each of the following three global geographies: Americas, APAC, and EMEA.

Companies can nominate themselves or be nominated by NetApp sales, channel, or technology partners; other companies; or colleagues through the online submission forms. All nominations must be received by midnight Pacific Time on on Wednesday, January 11, 2012, to be eligible for consideration. One winner from each category will be selected by a third-party panel of judges and will be notified no later than April 3, 2012.

Each category winner will be recognized during an awards ceremony in San Jose, California June 19, 2012 – June 21, 2012. Winners must be present at the awards ceremony to be eligible to receive the award (travel and accommodations will be provided by NetApp). Any channel partner who nominates a winning NetApp customer will also be invited to the event.