2010 Highlights | Blade Systems Insight 2010

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HIGHLIGHTS from the 4th Annual Summit

April 18 – 20, 2010
Orlando, FL

This year the event took a more practical look at blade technologies, all from the perspective of a data center manager or CIO.
Jon Toigo of Toigo Partners International opened the conference with a realistic look at procurement and how CIOs today go about upgrading and setting systems goals for their companies.
The pre-qualified, hosted audience of IT executives included decision makers from Thompson Reuters, Harvard University, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Lambert-St. Louis International Airport, Unisys, Fidelity Investments, MetLife, Answers.com and more.
Participants heard from analysts including James Staten of Forrester Research, Jonathan Eunice from Illuminata and Dan Kusnetzky of the 451 Group.
Two keynotes were presented on Sunday with Chris Lofton, Head of Technology Planning for SITA (on behalf of sponsor IBM) talking about the IT ecosystem supporting the global airline and airline supporting industry, and Harkereet Singh, Global Head of Energy & Sustainable Technology at Thompson Reuters took a hard look at energy use and ways to draw even greater efficiencies from blade technologies in the short and long term.
Attending executives voted on the Insight Awards for vendor excellence including Best Green Data Center Solution to Eaton; Best Data Center Innovation to Hardcore Computer; Best Blade-Based Solution to Supermicro; Best Virtualization Solution to Cisco; Best Case Study Presentation to IBM; All Around Excellence to Xiotech. Click here to read the Press Release.

BladeSystems Insight Awards 2010

Each year at the annual BladeSystems Insight Summit the C-level attendees vote on the most innovative products and services presented at the Summit. These buyers review and discuss the products and services in case study presentations, in networking breaks and on the showcase demonstration area and confidential balloting takes place at the completion of the case study program on the final morning of the conference.

Peer review is an excellent feedback mechanism in today’s competitive technology environment and with over 100 end users and customers reviewing and voting at the BladeSystems Insight Summit, these awards are a sign of pride for the sponsors and participants.

BladeSystems Insight Awards as presented in Orlando, FL on April 20, 2010: