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STORAGE STORAGE AWARDS
Channel Excellence Award
WINNER: Hammer - Nick Powling
Nick Powling, Hammer's General Manager for components, has won this year's Channel Excellence
Award. A worthy winner! Nick has a proven track record in business development within diverse
channel sales environments and markets. Having begun his channel career with Seagate, Nick
joined Hammer in 2004 and held various business development roles before being appointed to
his current post in 2014. "I'm delighted to have won," he said, "but this is really an award for my
team and testament to all at Hammer because it shows the depth of our reach and the regard in
which Hammer is held within the channel." Hammer celebrated its 25th anniversary last year and,
following its recent acquisition by Exertis, continues to operate as an independent storage and server
distributor. "Our business is growing and the value we add to our customers' offering is constantly improving, so awards such as this help underline
that success. We are all thrilled to have won."
GDPR Ready Company of the Year
WINNER: Easy Software
EASY came top in the 'GDPR Ready' category at the 2017 Storage Awards with its GDPR solution
otris privacy from sister EASY company, otris software AG. Otris privacy is a support tool for helping
organisations get ready for GDPR, offering proof of process and a way to show auditors what’s
being achieved, says the company. The software helps properly document and project manage
GDPR preparedness on many fronts, from collecting data from data stakeholders to producing a
snapshot of results and helping data compliance officers build a traffic light system of green
(compliant), amber (questions to settle) and red (at risk on GDPR).
Ransomware Protection Company of the Year
WINNER: Zerto
With Zerto Virtual Replication systems are protected from ransomware with Continuous Data
Protection in the form of incremental block-level replication, which gives the ability to:
- Re-wind sites, applications, VM's and now with v4.5 individual files to any point-of-time within up
to 14 days to within a matter of seconds.
- Recover all critical systems and applications with consistency in the space of a few minutes with
only a few clicks of the button – Click Failover -> Select Apps -> Verify -> Start Failover.
- Test recovery data in an isolated bubble network to ensure that the recovery point selected is free
from any form of infection before committing the failover.
Storage Innovators of the Year
WINNER: Kaminario
Kaminario, a leading all-flash storage company, is redefining the future of modern data centres.
Our unique solution enables organisations to succeed in today's on-demand world and prepares
them to seamlessly handle tomorrow's innovations. Only the Kaminario K2 all-flash array delivers
the agility, scalability, performance and economics a data centre requires to deal with today's cloudfirst,
dynamic world and provide real-time data access — anywhere, anytime. Hundreds of
customers rely on Kaminario K2 to power their mission critical applications and safeguard their
digital ecosystem.
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@STMagAndAwards July/August 2017
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