gm2 Logistics Wins British Computer Society “Green Organisation of the Year� Award

Compellent Technologies announced that one of its UK customers, gm2 Logistics, a warehousing and logistics company located near London, has won the ‘Green Organisation of the Year’ award from the British Computer Society. Runners up in this category include BT, Dell, IBM Rackspace, and Sun Microsystems.
               
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. The solution was deployed by Compellent business partner Fordway, one of the UK’s leading IT infrastructure specialists.   
 
"This award for organizational excellence is a credit to Compellent and Fordway who helped us transform our IT into an energy-efficient, highly sustainable data network that’s running 24/7," explained John Boyd, IT manager, gm2 Logistics, Ltd. "Since implementing our company-wide green initiative, we have searched for ways to reduce power consumption and our impact on the environment. We’ve seen that profit-centered business decisions can co-exist with a green strategy. We are extremely pleased that the BCS has recognise our green efforts."
 
By providing the storage foundation for server virtualization, the Compellent SAN lets customers consolidate servers and disks and, ultimately, reduce power and cooling costs. By further integrating technologies such as automated tiered storage, thin provisioning, space-efficient snapshots and remote replication to reduce reliance on high-energy storage, Compellent customers gain the means to deploy a feature-rich, greener data center.
 
Andy Hardy, managing director of international sales at Compellent, said: "Through virtualisation, companies can drastically reduce the cost of their data centre while also slashing the environmental impact of running their data centres. Compellent’s storage virtualisation design and automated tiered storage, thin provisioning and continuous snapshots are ‘must-haves’ for IT managers evaluating virtualisation strategies to reduce complexity and enable disaster recovery."
 
David Clarke, BCS chief executive says: “This winners and medalists in this year’s Awards are examples of best practice and professionalism and reflect the fact that technology is an integral and expected part of everyday life and is at the heart of literally every business. In the current economic situation it is rewarding to see that IT is continuing to lead through innovation and deliver real business benefits.”
 
 
The BCS IT Industry Awards are the leading hallmark of success amongst practitioners today. The cross industry awards form a central element to the BCS’ professionalism in IT initiative and recognise, promote and acclaim excellence, professionalism, innovation and the outstanding achievements to which individuals and groups contribute.