Fordway wins prestigious 'data centre solution of the year' award

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Issue Date: 30th October 2008

30 October 2008 - ICT infrastructure specialist Fordway has won the 'Data Centre Solution of the Year' award at the 2008 Channel Network Awards in London. This award, which recognises excellence across the entire UK reseller and integrator community, was given for the company's deployment of a virtualised server and storage platform with integrated disaster recovery solution for gm2 Logistics, a warehousing and logistics firm specializing in paper distribution.

This is Fordway's second award in recent months, following a win in the Data and Information Management category of the IT Europa 2008 European IT Excellence Awards.

By combining a Compellent SAN and VMware platform and providing the client with Fordway's integration and process expertise, Fordway has enabled gm2 to improve system performance, reliability and resilience, at the same time as lowering the number of drives and servers required, decreasing gm2's data centre footprint by a third. To ensure continuous operation Fordway now provide 24 x 7 monitoring and remote support of the new environment.

The implementation also reduced power consumption and related carbon emissions, creating a greener storage environment while reducing annual server management costs.

"We're delighted to have won this prestigious award," comments Richard Blanford, Managing Director, Fordway. "The project with gm2 is a great example of where we have developed a best-of-breed solution that aligns directly with our customer's business needs and, most importantly, delivers clear and measurable benefits."

Andy Hardy, Managing Director of International Sales at Compellent, adds: "Compellent is dedicated to providing its partners with highly efficient data storage solutions that enable customers to save time and money, while reducing their carbon footprint. Compellent's powerful solution, which includes automated tiered storage, thin provisioning and virtualisation, provides an efficient and resourceful SAN."

Now in their 7th year, the Channel Network Awards reward excellence in the ICT and Communications Channels. The 'Data Centre Solution of the Year' is one of 17 awards and was judged by an independent panel of experts.

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