Computerworld Names Recipients of ''Best Practices in Infrastructure Management'' Awards; Honorees Announced and Recognized at Infrastructure Management World

Business Wire, Sept 14, 2006

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- Computerworld, the "Voice of IT Management," announced yesterday the recipients of its "Best Practices in Infrastructure Management" awards during a ceremony at Infrastructure Management World, the only IT management conference exclusively focused on distributed management technologies for the data center and communications infrastructure. The awards program was sponsored by EMC.

Honorees of IMW's "Best Practices in Infrastructure Management" awards were selected from approximately 100 entries in five categories, with two award honorees per category and finalists for each. They were judged by representatives from a variety of organizations including Computerworld and IDC. The awards were presented in five categories to the following organizations:

In the category of Data Center and Network Consolidation/Dynamic IT, the honorees are:

--General Mills (Minneapolis, Minn.)

--Catholic Health Partners (Cincinnati, Ohio)

In the category of Distributed Systems and Infrastructure Implementation/Dynamic Infrastructure, the honorees are:

--Lockheed Martin (Gaithersburg, Md.)

--Detroit Medical Center (Detroit, Mich.)

In the category of Innovation and Promise, the honorees are:

--MIT Whitehead Inst. for Bio-Medical Research/MIT BioImaging Center/CSBi (Cambridge, Mass.)

--Accenture (Chicago, Ill.)

In the category of Managing to Improve TCO/ROI, the honorees are:

--SHOP.com (Monterey, Canada)

--Polo Ralph Lauren (Greensboro, N.C.)

In the category of Security, Risk Management and Business Continuity/Dynamic Information, the honorees are:

--Marriott International, Inc. (Washington D.C.)

--Capital Technology Information Services, Inc. (Rockville, Md.)

"This year's honorees represent a variety of organizations, from retail companies to hotels, all of which have showed enormous success in demonstrating how infrastructure management can positively impact both the organization as a whole and its technology infrastructure," said Ron Milton, executive vice president, Computerworld.

"SHOP.com greatly appreciates being recognized as a Best Practices in Infrastructure Management Awards program Honoree," said Geoff Caras, vice president, System Infrastructure of SHOP.com. "With nearly 500 million transactions per year and growing, our biggest challenge in managing the infrastructure is growth, and monitoring, business intelligence, trending and analysis are the tools that help us do better. It is good to know what we are on par with our peers and are state of the art in our IT at SHOP.com."

"EMC is proud to be a sponsor of the Best Practices in Infrastructure Management Awards Program. The finalists and honorees represented here have exemplified best in class IT implementations in their respective industries, and once again Computerworld has demonstrated its innate ability to tell the most important stories in IT management today. EMC applauds the finalists and honorees for their excellence in information technology," said Roy Sanford, vice president, EMC Corporation.

Infrastructure Management World took place on Sept. 11-13, 2006 at the Westin Kierland Resort in Scottsdale, Ariz. More information about the event can be found at www.imworldusa.com.

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