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06/21/2012| 09:33am US/Eastern
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NetApp Recognizes Visionary Customers with Annual
Innovation Awards Event
SUNNYVALE, Calif.-June 21, 2012-A culture of innovation
provides businesses with the technology, products, people,
and services that allow them to outpace, out innovate, and
outperform the competition to achieve remarkable results
for business.
During this year's eighth annual
Innovation Awards, NetApp (NASDAQ: NTAP) honored a few
of the exceptional visionaries who joined in the journey
with NetApp to show that IT can be foundational to business
success. The award winners have one thing in common: They
had the vision to think differently to achieve results that
are remarkable. NetApp announced the winners and finalists
of the Innovation Awards program on Wednesday, June 20,
2012, during a distinguished awards ceremony at The Tech
Museum in San Jose, California.
"Change is hard. The Innovation Awards are about
recognizing people with the courage to think differently
about how IT can drive business," said Dave Hitz,
founder and executive vice president of NetApp. "These
role models show what is possible, and hopefully they will
inspire others to follow."
Dave Hitz discusses the business impact and game-changing
innovations customers and partners achieved as well as the
importance of having a culture of innovation.
View Dave's video blog post.
NetApp thanks everyone who submitted achievements to the
2012 Innovation Awards program. The over 200 global
nominations that were submitted by customers and partners
validate the fact that an agile IT foundation can deliver
great outcomes for business success. Customer submissions
came from wide-ranging industries, including healthcare,
financial services, entertainment, energy, and education,
each highlighting new and innovative ways to impact
business. The
award categories address the business impact of IT:
Efficiency Innovation, Flexibility Innovation, and
Visionary Leadership. In addition to these categories, The
Innovator of the Year category recognizes one winner from
each of four global geographies: Americas, APAC, EMEA, and
U.S. Public Sector.
2012 NetApp Innovation Award Winners and Finalists
Innovator of the Year-AMERICAS
WINNER:
Mercy Healthcare System
FINALISTS:
Blackboard, Symantec Services Group, Yahoo! Inc.
Innovator of the Year-EMEA
WINNER:
T-Systems Austria
FINALISTS:
Eden Project, Nelt CO. D.O.O.
Innovator of the Year-APAC
WINNER:
Oxigen Services India Pvt. Ltd.
FINALISTS:
Suncorp Group, Volkswagen India Pvt. Ltd.
Innovator of the Year-USPS
WINNER:
Iowa Workforce Development (nominated by NetApp partner
IP Pathways)
FINALISTS:
Illini Cloud, Fairfax County Public Schools
Visionary Leadership
WINNER:
Teradata Labs
FINALISTS:
Revlon, Verizon Digital Media Services
Flexibility Innovation
WINNER:
Verizon Communications Inc.
FINALISTS:
Geometric Limited, Pima County, Trafford Council
Efficiency Innovation
WINNER:
ING DIRECT
FINALISTS:
Taylor Morrison, Transplace
Supporting Quotes
Andrew Henderson, CIO, ING DIRECT
"ING DIRECT Australia implemented an efficient
storage capability that has given the business a
competitive edge in the retail banking sector by enabling
ING DIRECT's frontline developers and testers to bring
new banking products to market faster. We were able to
accelerate banking application testing and refreshes from
six weeks to one day by leveraging NetApp's on-demand
private cloud."
Gary Bateman, CIO, Iowa Workforce Development
"Iowa Workforce Development executed a
cost-effective virtualization project leveraging NetApp
storage, which saved our state government agency $6.5
million annually and accelerated the deployment of 1,500
virtual desktops across Iowa in less than six months. The
scalability of our storage infrastructure is instrumental
in reducing storage needs by nearly 50% while improving
public services to Iowa's employers and workers."
Joe Shields, President and Owner, IP Pathways
"IP Pathways' focus has always been to partner with
companies that consolidate and simplify data storage and
management, while optimizing the user experience for
business needs. In collaborating with NetApp we've
created a relationship that supports innovative
award-winning IT deployments for our customers."
Jeff Bell, Former COO, Mercy Healthcare System
"Mercy Healthcare built a state-of-the-art data
center and implemented a flexible cloud infrastructure to
effectively deploy an Electronic Medical Health Record
for storing and protecting patient information and, in
the future, to support smaller clinics and healthcare
systems. With the help of the NetApp FlexPod®
architecture, we have saved over 40% of storage space,
reduced power consumption by 50%, and now provide rapid
access to and data protection for 1,742K patients."
Rahul Sharma, Assistant Vice President, IT Network
Operations, Oxigen Services India Pvt. Ltd.
"Oxigen was successful in achieving business goals
to save costs and increase capabilities by implementing
storage efficiency, deduplication, thin provisioning, and
server virtualization features using NetApp's storage
infrastructure. Since implementing our new data structure
Oxigen has saved 40% on storage efficiency and 20% on
cost savings."
Scott Gnau, President, Teradata Labs
"Teradata's storage foundation is a key part of our
ability to handle challenging data warehousing and
analytic workloads while improving performance and
allowing for uninterrupted operations. The integration of
NetApp E-Series storage solutions contributed to our
growth in 2011 and helped our customers make the best
decision possible, enabling them to outperform and
outmaneuver their competition."
Erwin Schuster, Sr. Consultant, Enterprise Architecture
and Strategy, T-Systems
"To better serve T-Systems' multinational
corporations and public sector institutions, we are
deploying a reference cloud infrastructure to deliver and
operate cloud-enabled applications with rapid development
and go-to-market cycles. With storage and management from
NetApp, T-Systems offers virtualization across the entire
stack for maximum scalability, availability, and
efficiency while customers benefit from reduced risk and
accelerated applications lifecycle management."
Michael Blake, Director, Information Technology, Verizon
Network Technology and Corporate Systems
"Verizon successfully established a virtualized
standard operating environment to merge multiple and
dated IT infrastructures without disrupting service to
120,000 employee portal users. With NetApp Snapshot™ and
SnapVault® technology, backups that previously took 12 to
20 hours and impacted overall performance now take just a
few minutes. As a result, we are able to back up numerous
databases every two hours, delivering more robust data
protection."
The NetApp Innovation Awards program distinguishes itself
by relying on a prestigious third-party panel of
international judges for the four main categories. These
judges determine the award winners based on their outside
expertise and a critical, unbiased assessment of real-world
deployments at customer sites.
NetApp 2012 Innovation Award Judges
Deni Connor, Principal Analyst, Storage Strategies NOW;
and Contributing Editor, InformationWeek
Carsten Knop, Senior Business Editor, Frankfurter
Allgemeine Zeitung
Vijay Ramachandran, Editor-in-Chief, IDG Media India
Pvt. Ltd.
Benjamin S. Woo, previously Program Vice President,
Worldwide Storage Systems Research; and Lead Analyst, Big
Data Infrastructure
About NetApp
NetApp creates innovative storage and data management
solutions that deliver outstanding cost efficiency and
accelerate business breakthroughs. Discover our passion for
helping companies around the world go further, faster at www.netapp.com.
NetApp, the NetApp logo, Go further, faster, FlexPod,
Snapshot, and SnapVault are trademarks or registered
trademarks of NetApp, Inc. in the United States and/or
other countries. All other brands or products are
trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective
holders and should be treated as such.
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