Hitachi Data Systems kickstarts IT Inspiration Awards
ConvergenceAsia staff
09/09/2008

Hitachi Data Systems, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd and provider of Services Oriented Storage Solutions, has launched the first annual IT Inspiration Awards that recognise and reward the best in technology deployment from across the Asia-Pacific region.

The award finalists are posted on the IT Inspiration Award Website and public voting for the winners in each category starts on 9 September, 2008 and closes on October 17, 2008. The voting website is www.hds.com/apac/itia.

”The IT Inspiration Awards is an opportunity to showcase technology innovations, solutions and applications in a unique and challenging environment that will inspire peers, competitors and customers,” said Vivekanand Venugopal, Vice President, Solutions and Products Group, APAC, Hitachi Data Systems.

The winners will be selected through a mix of public voting and a judging panel comprising of qualified judges from Hitachi Data Systems, IDC and Gartner. Voters can cast their vote for each of the categories online at the specially-created website to support the awards.

Designed to inspire and reward the next generation of enterprises, the ‘Hitachi Data Systems Asia Pacific IT Inspiration Awards 2008’ reflects the changes sweeping into technology industry today. The four industry award categories of Best Green Strategy for a Data Centre, Most Innovative Use of Technology, Most Efficient Use of Technology and Best Virtualisation Strategy aim to showcase the best in technology adoption leading to sound and tangible business results.

The CIO of the Year award has been created to acknowledge the ground breaking-work of visionary CIO’s. The award will honor the best CIOs from different countries across the Asia-Pacific region, who has displayed exemplary thought leadership, a thorough understanding of the business and technology environment and effective leadership skills to combat business challenges and drive results.

Based upon the results of public voting and the judging panel, the award recipients will be announced on November 6, 2008 at the IT Inspiration Awards Prize Presentation Ceremony at Cebu, Philippines held in conjunction with the Hitachi Data Systems APAC CIO Summit themed Inspire and Innovate – Best Practices for Managing the Explosive Growth of Data to Yield Business Results.

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