The Finalists (in alphabetical order by company) for Storage NetworkingWorld's Fall 2008 "Best Practices in Storage" Awards Program are:

In the category of "Innovation and Promise," the five Finalists are:- American Society of Health System Pharmacists (Bethesda, Maryland)- Joe Gibbs Racing (Huntersville, North Carolina)- LA Valley College (Los Angeles, California)- Partners HealthCare (Wellesley, Massachusetts)- University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign, Illinois)In the category of "Planning, Designing and Building Strategic StorageInfrastructure," the five Finalists are:- AOL LLC (New York, New York)- East Carolina University (Greenville, North Carolina)- LandAmerica Financial Group (Glen Allen, Virginia)- Latin School of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois)- Tasty Baking Company (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)In the category of "ROI and Best Practices in Green Computing and the DataCenter," the five Finalists are:- Hilton Grand Vacations Club (Orlando, Florida)- Marina Medical Billing Service, Inc. (Cerritos, California)- Priority Health (Grand Rapids, Michigan)- Sybase, Inc. (Dublin, California)- U.S. Capitol Police (Washington, DC)In the category of "Selecting and Deploying Storage Networks," the fiveFinalists are:- Air Force Center for Engineering and the Environment (Brooks City-Base,Texas)- CXtec (Syracuse, New York)- Stanford University (Palo Alto, California)- UNISYS (Lima, Peru)- Weiss Group, (Jupiter, Florida)In the category of "Storage Reliability and Data Recovery," the fiveFinalists are:- Howard Rice Nemerovski Canady Falk & Rabkin (San Francisco, California)- The Mind Research Network (Albuquerque, New Mexico)- The Ohio State University - Office of University Communications (Columbus, Ohio)- University of Texas at Brownsville (Brownsville, Texas)- ZirMed, Inc. (Louisville, Kentucky)

"Data and storage networking initiatives are one of the most importantpillars of the IT infrastructure," said Ron Milton, executive vicepresident of Computerworld. "The organizations and professionals judged tobe Finalists in Storage Networking World's Fall 2008 'Best Practices inStorage' Awards Program have unlocked the true value of network storage andits strategic importance to their businesses."

Storage Networking World's Fall 2008 "Best Practices in Storage" AwardsProgram is sponsored by Hitachi.

For more information about the "Best Practices in Storage" Awards Programor Storage Networking World Fall 2008, please visit www.snwusa.com.

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About the SNIA

The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) is a not-for-profitglobal organization, made up of some 400 member companies and 7,000individuals spanning virtually the entire storage industry. SNIA's missionis to lead the storage industry worldwide in developing and promotingstandards, technologies, and educational services to empower organizationsin the management of information. To this end, the SNIA is uniquelycommitted to delivering standards, education, and services that will propelopen storage networking solutions into the broader market. For additionalinformation, visit the SNIA web site at www.snia.org.

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