Computerworld Honors Laureate Award Winners
by Hu Yoshida on June 7, 2010
Since 1988, the Computerworld Honors Program has been recognizing and documenting the achievements of men, women, organizations and instututions around the world whose visionary use of information technology promotes positive social, economic and educational change.
We are pleased to announce that five Hitachi Data Systems customers have been selected as the 2010 Computerworld Honors Laureate award winners by IDG’s Computerworld Honors Program. These Hitachi Data Systems customers will be recognized during the 22nd Annual Laureates Medal Ceremony & Gala Awards Evening on June 7, 2010 at the Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium in Washington, D.C.
Darren Browett, technical Services Manager for the City of Coquitlam, British Columbia, Canada, implemented a leading edge storage virtualization solution with USP VM and dynamic thin provisioning to improve the levels and types of services to their citizens, businesses, and city workers.
Gonzalo Bongolan, president of Home Guaranty Corporation, HGC, focuses on promoting home ownership to middle and low income families in the Philippines. When their efforts were being hampered by severe storage challanges and a decentralized data storage system, they turned to the Hitachi Adaptable Modular System 2000. The AMS 2000 provides modular storage solutions with symmetric active-active controllers which simplifies operations with automated hardware-based front-to-back-end I/O load balancing. It is capable of providing enterprise, consolidated, performance and availability to serve HGC’s data needs.
Darwin Gosal, IT Manager, Centre for Quantum Technologies, National University of Singapore, manages a variety of computing facilities for general research and general administration as well as advanced information services for state of the art projects which generate a vast amount of information. CQT built one of the most robust, scalable, and cost effective IT infrastructure using Hitachi High-Performance NAS and AMS storage. This storage infrastructure is one of th highest performaing networked storage infrastructure in the academic community.
Andres Espeneira, Co-Founder, Chairman, and President of Products for Pixorial needed a very versatile storage environment to ensure optimal digital workflow while meeting exponential growth projections in a cost efficient way. Pixorial adopted the AMS 2500 and a cluster of Hitachi High Performance NAS to meet thier storage needs.
Sander Ujzanovitch, team Leader Digital management, for Stadsarchief Amsterdam, manages one of the world’s largest archives with 22 miles of archives. They implemented a Digital Storage Depot that would be required to provide the capacity required for Staadsarchief Amsterdam’s future with the control mechanisms to continuously check the digital archive documents for authenticity. That Digital Storage Depot is being implemented on a Hitachi Content plaform for digitized as well as digitally created objects.
Congratulations to our Computerworld Honors Laureate Award winners.
