The Virtual Vanguard Awards have been announced:
- The Virtual Vanguard Award for Innovation: Rochester Institute of Technology
- Best Enterprise Desktop: IQOR/IRMC
- Most Successful VA Developed by an ISV: BEA Systems
- Best Overall ROI and Operational Benefits: Cerner
- Green Award: Energy Savings: Interior Health – Canada
- Most Advanced VMware Implementation: Virginia Farm Bureau
- Best Disaster Recovery Solution: Computershare
- Best Infrastructure Optimization Solution: Mayo Clinic
- Best Infrastructure Optimization Solution by an SMB: Medavant HealthCare Solutions
- Best Development and Test Solution: Bobst Group
Jason Langone on his award:
This evening I was awarded the 2007 VMWare Virtual Vanguard Award for Best Disaster Recovery Solution. The solution I designed used a consecutive scripting engine (DSH)
for the Linux environment as the base work for my solution. Once this
environment was configured, I put a pool of scripts together to recover
from server failure, storage array failure and site failure.The
scripts worked wonderfully but alas, scripts are run at an intimidating
command line interface. I took the solution to the next level by
building a Virtual Appliance running Ubuntu Desktop and then built a GUI application in Glade/GTK
and C#. The solution was then able to be run by anyone and the recovery
process essentially involved: click – click – recover. Viola!
