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  • Winner of the Biz-News.com "Product of the Year Award 2009” Announced

    Our polls for the Biz-News.com “Product of the Year Award 2009” closed on the 15th of February. The winner is a result of the amount of votes they were awarded by readers, all readers where invited to vote for their favourite products or service in the Smartphone, HDTV, Storage and VoIP categories.

    This is the second year that Biz-News.com runs this Award, prized with a company profile and interview with our Editor.

    In 2008 the winners were MyGlobalTalk by i2Telecom and IPsmarx in the VoIP category, Restore Point by Tadasoft in the Storage category and AmAze in the Smartphone category.

    This year the participation has been amazing and we want to thank readers for their support and interest in this Award. Without your participation it would not have been possible to announce this year’s reader’s choice awards.

    Without further delay we will below list the absolute winners for 2009.

    Winners for the Biz-News.com “Product of the Year Award 2009”

    Smartphone Category
    Privus Mobile

    HDTV Category
    HD-PVR by Hauppauge Computer Works

    VoIP Category
    IPsmarx SIP Based Calling Card Platform by IPsmarx Technology

    Storage Category
    Compellent Storage Center by Compellent

    It is also worth mentioning other strong candidates like Fonolo and Free Switch for the VoIP Category, and Data Robotics, Pivot3, Starwind Software and Xiotech for the Storage Category.

    We congratulate our winners and thank our readers for expressing their opinion and voting for their favourites.

  • London Council Gives Virtualisation Green Light


    Faced with 100 per cent year-on-year data growth, the London council of Hillingdon’s IT team has decided to virtualise its servers.

    With a population of almost a quarter of a million, Hillingdon is one of London’s largest local authorities.

    It has responsibility for running schools, social services, waste collection and roads within the borough.

    Now the council has created a sustainable IT environment by replacing its disparate array of servers and storage hardware with a greener virtual environment using Compellent and VMware.

    It took the virtualisation decision after being faced with the rapid growth of employees’ e-mail boxes, the need to retain documents such as benefits assessments records, and the increased use of digital images in planning applications and property and highway inspections.

    Roger Bearpark, assistant head of ICT for the Borough of Hillingdon, said they were looking for a new storage solution that could automatically manage data and drive down the cost per TB of stored data over the life of the SAN.

    “It had to provide us with affordable system resilience and also contribute to a greener IT infrastructure,” he said.

    Virtualising the servers with VMware and the storage with Compellent enabled Hillingdon to reduce 94 production servers to just three, and to reduce the number of server rooms it had from three to two.

    The subsequent power reduction from 34kW to 1.1kW led directly to Hillingdon saving GBP £20,000 on its annual energy bill.
    The green IT initiative enabled it to reduce its carbon footprint by 20 per cent over 18 months.