Solution Provider’s Power Systems Virtualization Solution
Named Best in Class Worldwide
Farmington Hills, MI
– May 18, 2010 – “To an IBM Business
Partner, earning a Beacon Award is comparable to an athletic team
earning a gold medal at the Olympics. It’s an award that
tells the world that we’ve been recognized by IBM as one of its
highest performing technology consultants,” says John Iffert, vice
president, IBM Solutions, for Logicalis.
Logicalis, an international provider of
integrated information and communications technology (ICT)
solutions and services, has earned IBM’s prestigious 2010 Beacon
Award for the Outstanding Power Systems Solution for Major Markets
category. The company will travel to Rome, Italy, to receive its
award at the IBM Beacon Awards Recognition Event in mid-May.
“Our Beacon Award winners represent the
tremendous power of the IBM Business Partner ecosystem in creating
unique client value through our combined capabilities, expertise
and offerings," says Rich Hume, general manager, IBM Business
Partner and Midmarket Organization. "By winning the Outstanding
Power Systems Solution for Major Markets award, Logicalis has
demonstrated its ability to deliver innovation to the market and
help clients achieve higher value and better business
outcomes."
Logicalis is also proud to announce that, as a
result of the innovation and value it consistently brings to its
clients, the company has also earned three other IBM leadership
awards:
- IBM’s 2009 Growth Leadership Award for outstanding year-to-year
Systems & Technology Group revenue growth in the over $50
million category
- IBM’s 2009 Business Leadership Award for outstanding business
results, skills, and customer satisfaction
- IBM’s 2009 Competitive Leadership Award for significant
competitive wins
Setting Logicalis apart from its worthy
competitors is the company’s consultative approach to doing
business as a whole, and with regard to the prestigious Beacon
award, in revitalizing the enterprise data center in
particular. Logicalis takes a service-oriented approach to
data center technology. As data centers age, they often
become increasingly more expensive and difficult to maintain.
Logicalis starts by assessing all of the IBM and non-IBM systems,
servers, and software installed at the customer’s site, as well as
assessing the IT objectives that support the client’s business
goals. When doing so makes business sense for the client,
Logicalis begins the process of designing and constructing a new
data center infrastructure with IBM Power Systems and PowerVM at
its heart.
“Logicalis’ consultative approach to the data
center is flexible and applies to clients of any size in any
industry. Whether the focus is on consolidation, ease of
management, business continuity, dynamic allocation of resources,
collaboration across internal and external resources, or adherence
to open standards, our consultants’ technical expertise allows us
to assess the effectiveness of all storage, server and software
platforms in a client’s data center, IBM or otherwise, and design a
solution that provides an unbeatable total cost of ownership and
return on investment,” Iffert says.
About IBM’s Beacon Awards
The IBM Beacon Awards provide a wide range of
industry recognition, increased visibility and promotional
opportunities to award winners and finalists. Hundreds of
nominations were judged by a team of leading industry journalists,
analysts and IBM executives, who selected winners and finalists in
nine overall categories encompassing 21 awards covering hardware,
software, and service solutions, Midmarket, ISV and technical
awards, as well as a focus on Smarter Planet. Among the
categories were three new additions for 2010: New Intelligence,
Smart Work and Smarter Planet.
About Logicalis
Logicalis is an international
provider of integrated information and communications technology
(ICT) solutions and services founded on a superior breadth of
knowledge and expertise in communications and collaboration; data
center optimization; application development and integration; and
outsourcing and managed services.
With its international headquarters in the UK,
Logicalis Group employs over 1,900 people worldwide, including
highly trained service specialists who design, specify, deploy and
manage complex ICT infrastructures to meet the needs of over 6,500
corporate and public sector customers. To achieve this,
Logicalis maintains strong partnerships with technology leaders
such as Cisco, HP, IBM and Microsoft.
The Logicalis Group has annualized revenues in
excess of $1 billion, from operations in the UK, US, Germany, Latin
America and Asia Pacific, and is fast establishing itself as one of
the leading IT and Communications service providers, specializing
in the areas of advanced technologies and services.
The Logicalis Group is a division of Datatec Limited, a $4.2
billion revenue business listed on the Johannesburg and London AIM
Stock Exchanges (LSE/JSE: DTC).
For more information about Logicalis, visit
http://www.us.logicalis.com/.