Compellent Technologies today announced that one of its UK customers, gm2 Logistics, a warehousing and logistics company, has won the “Green Organisation of the Year” award from the British Computer Society. Runners up in this category include BT, Dell, IBM Rackspace, and Sun Microsystems.
gm2 Logistics reduced its data centre footprint and energy consumption by more than 30 per cent following the deployment of a storage area network (SAN) from Compellent and server virtualisation technology from VMware. The solution was deployed by Compellent business partner Fordway, one of the UK’s leading IT infrastructure specialists.
“This award is a credit to Compellent and Fordway who helped transform our IT into an energy-efficient, highly sustainable data network that’s running 24/7,” explained John Boyd, IT manager, gm2 Logistics, Ltd. “Since implementing our company-wide green initiative, we have searched for ways to reduce power consumption and impact on the environment. We are pleased that BCS has recognised our efforts.”
By providing the storage foundation for server virtualisation, the Compellent SAN lets customers consolidate servers and disks and, ultimately, reduce power and cooling costs. By integrating technologies such as automated tiered storage, thin provisioning, space-efficient snapshots and remote replication, Compellent customers gain the means to deploy a feature-rich, greener data center.
Andy Hardy, MD of international sales at Compellent, said: “Through virtualisation, companies can reduce the cost of their data centre while also slashing the environmental impact. Compellent’s storage virtualisation design and features are ‘must-haves’ for IT managers evaluating strategies to reduce complexity and enable disaster recovery.”
David Clarke, BCS chief executive says: “The winners in this year’s Awards are examples of best practice and reflect that technology is an integral part of everyday life and is at the heart of every business.”
The BCS IT Industry Awards are the leading hallmark of success amongst practitioners today. The cross industry awards form a central element to the BCS’ professionalism in IT initiative and recognise, promote and acclaim excellence, professionalism, innovation and outstanding achievements to which individuals and groups contribute.