NetApp Celebrates Customers Who Unleash the Power of IT with Annual Innovation Awards Event
12/06/2013
SUNNYVALE, Calif. June 12, 2013 Organizations that succeed in today's business and public service environments embody an innovative spirit that inspires them to leverage IT to achieve remarkable results. During this year's ninth annual Innovation Awards, NetApp (NASDAQ: NTAP) will honor select customers who unleashed the power of IT to accelerate business and operations. With the NetApp Data ONTAP architecture, the world's #1 branded storage operating system,* these customers have been able to innovate and take advantage of disruptive technology trends like the cloud, to drive agility throughout their organizations. The result is the ability to respond quickly to business and situational changes and remove IT constraints.
For more than 20 years, NetApp has pushed the boundaries of innovation with a single goal in mind: customer success, said Rob Salmon, executive vice president of Field Operations, NetApp. The Innovation Awards allow us to shine the spotlight on our customers and recognize their accomplishments. I always look forward to this time of the year because I love celebrating how customers are achieving phenomenal business results and making a difference in their industries and communities with solutions built on NetApp.
NetApp will honor the winners and finalists of the Innovation Awards program tonight during a distinguished awards ceremony at The Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California.
NetApp thanks everyone who submitted achievements to the 2013 Innovation Awards program. Over 130 global nominations were submitted by customers and partners this year. These nominations validate the fact that IT agility can remove the constraints of IT and enable customers to attain strategic and competitive advantages. Customer submissions came from a wide range of industries and organizations, including healthcare, financial services, media and entertainment, terminal operations, energy, government, and education. The award categories address the positive business and operational impact of IT: Pioneer, Go Beyond, and Visionary Leadership. In addition to these categories, the top nominations were judged in a special Innovator of the Year category, which recognizes one winner from each of four global geographies: Americas, APAC, EMEA, and the U.S. Public Sector.
2013 NetApp Innovation Award Winners and Finalists
Innovator of the Year-AMERICAS
WINNER: Turner Studios
FINALISTS: Apache Corporation
Innovator of the Year-APAC
WINNER: SoftBank Telecom Corp.
FINALISTS: Netmagic Solutions
Innovator of the Year-EMEA
WINNER: Chiesi Group
FINALISTS: Tiscali
Innovator of the Year-USPS
WINNER: The IlliniCloud (nominated by NetApp partner CDW)
FINALISTS: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Go Beyond
WINNER: Kommunale Informationsverarbeitung Baden-Franken
FINALISTS: Esurance, PeakColo, Thomson Reuters
Pioneer
WINNER: Sauber Motorsport AG
FINALISTS: Jack Wolfskin, PNI Digital Media Inc., Western Oregon University
Visionary Leadership
WINNER: DP World's London Gateway (nominated by NetApp partner Dimension Data)
FINALISTS: Centene Corporation; Delek US Holdings, Inc.; National Institute for Space Research INPE
Supporting Quotes
Ugo di Francesco, CEO, Chiesi Group
Chiesi Group is an international pharmaceutical company that manufactures and distributes pharmaceutical products in over 60 countries. Innovation is the main driver for growth, and in 2013 our investments in R&D are mainly focused on respiratory diseases and special care. Every new drug must go through rigorous approval procedures to ensure high-quality standards of the product so that it can be prescribed to patients all over the world. With NetApp, we developed a virtualized private cloud which helps us operate faster and experience significant efficiency gains while maintaining the security we need.
Bob Post, Head of IT, DP World's London Gateway
London Gateway will be the UK's first 21st-century major deep-sea automated container port and Europe's largest logistics park. Situated on the north bank of the River Thames, London Gateway provides unrivalled deep-sea shipping access for the world's leading businesses to the largest consumer markets in the UK. The ports location, with its superior operational systems and service, ensure ships load and unload as fast as possible, making London Gateway a world-class asset for the UK. London Gateway Information Technology, with Dimension Data as a partner, implemented a data storage and management solution for the mission-critical operational systems to ensure maximum availability, scalability, and uptime based on NetApp technology.
Jason Radford, Cloud Architect, The IlliniCloud
IlliniCloud delivers state-of-the-art cloud services built on NetApp to school districts throughout the state of Illinois. NetApp Data ONTAP enables us to scale to multiple data centers and petabytes of capacity while servicing more than 350 customers. With participating members experiencing 30% 60% cost reductions and increased performance, school districts are able to cut IT spending and free up funds to focus on other important educational projects.
William Schmitt, CEO, Kommunale Informationsverarbeitung Baden-Franken (KIVBF)
KIVBF is one of the most important IT service providers for about 550 cities and counties in the southwest of Germany. As a full-service provider, KIVBF offers IT solutions to the local authorities based on a central IT infrastructure. In evaluating the future, we decided to offer our services t
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