California Natural Resources Agency, Indiana University, Ministry of Education - Malaysia, SPAWAR/U.S. Navy Medicine and TIAA-CREF IT Production Services to Be Celebrated for Outstanding Examples of Business Innovation at VMworld(R) 2014
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"The 2014 VMware Innovation Awards recognize companies that have implemented new technologies to increase collaboration and drive business innovation during the past year," said Robin Matlock, chief marketing officer, VMware. "We are incredibly excited that these organizations have embraced new business transformation technologies that are enabling them to serve their customers and partners better, faster and more efficiently than before."
The awards recognize customers that have driven business innovation through the adoption of hybrid cloud, software-defined data center, end-user computing, and workforce transformation strategies. Additionally, the awards recognize an organization whose exceptional project was impacted by active participation in the VMware User Group (VMUG) community. In the following categories, these five companies demonstrated increased efficiency and improved business processes amidst tough challenges:
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All award nominations were reviewed and rated by a panel of Computerworld-recruited experts, using the criteria outlined for each category. The winners will be honored on-stage at VMworld 2014 in San Francisco (Aug. 24-28, 2014).
With more than 22,000 expected attendees, VMworld 2014 will feature more than 350 unique breakout sessions from VMware and its community of partners and customers that are driving innovation in virtualization and cloud computing. On Aug. 25, 2014 at 9am PDT, tune into VMware Now, the online destination for breaking news, product announcements, videos and demos at: http://vmware.com/go/now.
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1 More information on awards criteria is available at https://www.eiseverywhere.com/ehome/vmwareawards2014/107114/
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