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ComputerWorld IM World

June 16-18, 2008 · Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center, Washington, DC

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AWARD CATEGORIES

Data Center Management, IT Operations & Business Continuity:
Case studies should touch on elements such as the design, architecture, construction and maintenance of the data center, as well as the strategies and policies that ensure that your data and the information and applications crucial to the success of your business are accessible, properly backed up and protected in case of systems failure.

Network Management:
Case studies should focus on how improving the speed, strength, bandwidth and capabilities of your network has helped you to create a smarter, more flexible infrastructure.

Security, Compliance and Risk Management:
Case studies should focus on the essential elements necessary to keep your infrastructure secure, including the policies and best practices that your organization has implemented to ensure you are in line with necessary standards as well as protected from possible threats.

Servers and Virtualization:
Case studies should focus on improvements made to the efficiency of your infrastructure through virtualization and server consolidation, as well as best practices in ensuring that your rollouts are flexible and cost-effective.

Storage and ILM:
Case studies should focus on methods used to improve the storage capabilities of your infrastructure, as well as generate and enforce the policies that govern the management of your data.



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Awards

'Best Practices in Infrastructure Management' Awards Program


View the 2007 Awards Recipients

Computerworld's Infrastructure Management World (IMW) proudly announced the results of the "Best Practices in Infrastructure Management" Awards Program. This program honors IT users "Best Practices in Infrastructure Management" case studies selected from a field of qualified finalists. Honoree Award Recipients in each of the following categories were recognized during the "Best Practices in Infrastructure Management" Awards Presentation at the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center in National Harbor, MD on June 18th.

Congratulations 2008 Award Recipients!

Category:
"Data Center Management, IT Operations & Business Continuity"

Honorees (TIE):
Munder Capital Management, Birmingham, Michigan
Sprint Nextel, Overland Park, Kansas

Finalists:
City of Lynnwood, Lynnwood, Washington
Infosys Technologies Limited, Bangalore, Karnataka
Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, New York

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Category:
"Security, Compliance and Risk Management"

Honoree:
Pilz, Corby, United Kingdom

Finalists:
Ohio Dominican University, Columbus, Ohio
ReDE Inc. for the Department of Energy, Oak Ridge, Tennessee
Six Flags Inc., New York, New York
Yuma County, AZ, Yuma, Arizona

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Category:
"Servers and Virtualization"

Honoree:
Fannie Mae, Washington, DC

Finalists:
Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Huntsville Hospital, Huntsville, Alabama
Los Angeles Valley College, Van Nuys, California
Nationwide Insurance, Dublin, Ohio

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Category:
"Storage and ILM"

Honoree:
University of Wisconsin Center for Health Systems Research and Analysis (CHSRA), Madison, Wisconsin

Finalists:
DigitalGlobe, Longmont, Colorado
FreeDrive, San Diego, California
Safeguard Properties, LLC, Brooklyn Hts., Ohio
Stanford University, Stanford, California


"Six Flags is honored to be recognized as a Best Practices in Infrastructure Management Awards Program Honoree. It is good to know that we are on par with our peers and being named as an Honoree proves that we are state of the art in our IT at Six Flags."
—Michael Israel, senior vice president, Information Services, Six Flags.


Judges will evaluate and rank the finalists in each category according to their substantiated Infrastructure Management solution attributes and achievements against a set of criteria such as:
  • Financial return and measurable payback (returns on investment, assets, resources) through created/protected revenue opportunities or cost savings.
  • Strategic importance to the business.
  • Substantive customer impact (service, retention, acquisition).
  • Positive impact on other business/organization units.
  • Addresses system and department interoperability issues and heterogeneous platform integration challenges.
  • Provides a strategic advantage to the business/organization while anticipating and accommodating the deployment of future infrastructure solution initiatives.
  • Supports the efficient and reliable data, information and application sharing/access between personnel, departments, divisions, etc.
  • Addresses challenges of data, information and application security, recovery, business continuity, etc.

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