The winners will be announced at the SNW Fall Conference, the most prestigious event worldwide about Storage, Data Centers and IT Infrastructures, organized by Computerworld and the Storage Networking Industry Association - SNIA. The conference will be held in Dallas, from 11 to 14 October 2010.

 

AlmavivA TSF is among the five finalists in the Best Practices in Virtualization and Cloud Computing category, together with:

 

Applied Materials - Austin, Texas

Cartika IT Solutions Inc. - Toronto, Canada

Gilbarco Veeder-Root - Greensboro, North Carolina

Sprint - Overland Park, Kansas

 

shortlisted by:

 

Wendy Betts, Northern Trust

Derek Hulitzky, IDG Enterprise

Lucas Mearian, Computerworld

Elvin Peterson, SC Johnson

Dave Stevens, Carnegie Mellon University

Rick Villars, IDC

Ben Woo, IDC

Terry Yoshii, Intel Corporation

 

This nomination comes as yet another recognition of the validity of HyperCED, the Data Center recently developed by AlmavivA TSF, which boasts a cutting-edge architecture and fully exploits Cisco’s new UCS - Unified Computing System technology.

 

Today, thanks to HyperCed, AlmavivA TSF features a highly virtualized infrastructure enabling access to the computational and storage resources regardless of their position inside the Data Center.