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Fordway wins European IT Excellence award

Fordway wins European IT Excellence award for 'green' SAN deployment –Fordway Solutions has won the Data and Information Management category of the IT Europa 2008 European IT Excellence Awards for its deployment of a virtualised storage platform and disaster recovery solution for gm2 Logistics.

Fordway worked with the warehousing and logistics company to install a Compellent Storage Centre storage area network (SAN) and VMware platform - virtualising the company’s storage and server environment. Gm2 Logistic’s new installation has enabled the company to reduce its data centre footprint and energy consumption by a third.

The European IT Excellence Awards are the first pan-European awards to recognise the crucial role that Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) and Solution Providers play in the delivery of real world solutions. This year’s competition attracted entries from more than 30 countries.