BCS IT Industry Awards
December 15, 2008
Compellent customer gm2 Logistics, a warehousing and logistics company located near London, has won the "Green Organisation of the Year" award from the British Computer Society. gm2 Logistics reduced its data centre footprint and associated energy consumption by more than 30 per cent following the deployment of an energy-efficient storage area network (SAN) from Compellent and server virtualisation technology from VMware.
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PC Pro Award 2008 Finalist - Environmental Innovator of the Year
September 17, 2008
Compellent customer gm2 Logistics implemented innovative "green" systems including Compellent and VMware virtualization and other corporate initiatives to significantly reduce its power consumption and carbon dioxide output.
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Computing Awards for Excellence Finalist - Green Project of the Year
September 2008
Warehousing and trucking firm gm2 Logistics replaced its old storage system with a Compellent SAN, which provided virtualisation, thin provisioning and automated tiered storage to substantially reduce gm2’s carbon footprint, and introduced initiatives to trim its fleet of trucks and make distribution more efficient.
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Computerworld Best Practices in Green IT Award 2008 Finalist - ROI in Green Computing
September 2008
Compellent customer gm2 Logistics implemented Compellent and VMware virtualization to create a robust disaster recovery solution while cutting its data center footprint by one third -- in the process significantly lowering power consumption, related costs and other green benefits.
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Channel Network Award 2008 Winner - Data Centre Solution
September 2008
One of the leading resellers fueling and driving the explosion of virtualization in the UK, Compellent channel partner Fordway provides UK customers the virtualized Compellent SAN to enhance their productivity, effectiveness and competitiveness. Fordway won for its deployment of a virtualized disaster recovery solution using two Compellent SANs and VMware for gm2 Logistics, a warehousing and logistics company near London.
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British Computing Society IT Industry Awards 2008 Finalist
September 2008
Organizational Excellence for Green Organization of the Year:
Compellent customer gm2 Logistics sought to reduce its carbon footprint through more efficient use of storage infrastructure without impacting on employee access to data or recovery windows. Simultaneously, the firm made more efficient use of its fleet of delivery vehicles to take 36 trucks off the road.
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MicroScope Aces Award Finalist
March 20, 2008
For its green storage technology and efforts to reduce energy consumption, Compellent has been nominated as the Environmental Company of the Year by MicroScope, a leading channel publication in the UK.
More information about the awards competition is available here.
Winners will be announced May 21, 2008.
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