FRAMINGHAM, MA, Oct. 13, 2009 (Marketwire) --

FRAMINGHAM, MA -- (Marketwire) -- 10/13/09 -- SNW (Storage Networking World), in conjunction with Computerworld and The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) today announced the Honorees for its twice-annual "Best Practices in Storage" Awards Program. The awards were presented to the top Honoree in each category during the SNW "Best Practices in Storage" Awards Program Ceremony. SNW Fall 2009 is happening this week at the JW Marriott Desert Ridge Resort in Phoenix, Ariz.

The Honorees for SNW's Fall 2009 "Best Practices in Storage" Awards Program are:

-- Avnet, Inc. (Phoenix, Arizona)
   In the category of "Green Computing, Energy Efficiency and the Data
   Center"

-- GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals (Wavre, Belgium)
   In the category of "Planning, Designing and Building a Strategic
   Storage Infrastructure"

-- FICO Corporation (Minneapolis, Minnesota)
   In the category of "Storage Resiliency, Data Protection and Recovery"

-- Medtronic, Inc. (Minneapolis, Minnesota)
   In the category of "Storage Virtualization and Cloud Computing"

-- State Street Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts)
   In the category of "Technology Innovation and Promise"

"SNW's Fall 2009 'Best Practices in Storage' Awards Program Honorees represent an array of enterprise organizations that have demonstrated excellence in the use of storage technology," said Mike Garity, vice president of marketing, IDG Enterprise. "Storage initiatives are one of the most important pillars of the IT infrastructure and our Honorees have unlocked the true value of network storage and have accomplished extraordinary business challenges with their use of imaginative applications of storage technology."

SNW's Fall 2009 "Best Practices in Storage" Awards Program is sponsored by Sun Microsystems.

Produced by Computerworld and co-owned by Computerworld and the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA), SNW is the largest event for IT end-users, vendors, channel partners, press and analysts involved in storage, data center, infrastructure, and business continuity technologies. SNW also offers the world's largest Expo devoted to storage and related technologies.

For more information about the "Best Practices in Storage" Awards Program or SNW Fall 2009, please visit www.snwusa.com.

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