Computerworld, in conjunction with Storage Networking World (SNW), and the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA), has released the finalists for its 2008 "Best Practices in Storage" Awards Program.

Safeguard Properties is honored to be a finalist in the category of "Storage Reliability and Data Recovery." The final award is to be announced during a special award ceremony Wednesday April 9th, 2008 at Computerworld's Storage Networking World, in Orlando, Florida .

The winner will have demonstrated

• Superior implementation strategies and programs to insure highly available information and data access.
• Examples of "business continuance" initiatives (back-up plans, staging, performance testing/projections, etc.)
• Successful recovery examples from an actual data access disruption, and;
• Summary analysis of restart/recovery factors (time to restart and restore, data loss, etc.).

Safeguard congratulates all the finalists for the 2008 "Best Practices in Storage" Awards.

Storage Reliability and Data Recovery

• Gaston County, Gastonia, North Carolina
• Management Council - Ohio Education Computer Network, Archbold, Ohio
• New York Independent System Operator, Rensselaer, New York
• Safeguard Properties, LLC, Brooklyn Heights, Ohio
• Tucson Electric Power, Tucson, Arizona

Innovation and Promise

• Fleet Management Limited, Wanchai, Hong Kong
• Livermore Computing, Livermore, California
• Sprint Nextel, Overland Park, Kansas
• Tucson Electric Power, Tucson, Arizona
• University of North Texas, Denton, Texas

Planning, Designing and Building a Strategic Storage Infrastructure

• 3ality Digital, Burbank, California
• British Columbia Interior Health Authority, Kelowna, British Columbia
• General Motors Corporation, Warren, Michigan
• Infosys Technologies Limited, Bangalore, India
• Vault Logix, Ipswich, Massachusetts

Selecting and Deploying Storage Networks

• ICICI Bank Limited, Mumbai, India
• Microsoft Studios, Redmond, Washington
• NASCAR Media Group, a full-service production company and broadcast division of NASCAR, Charlotte, North Carolina
• Rockford Construction Company, Inc., Grand Rapids, Michigan
• The University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland

About Safeguard
Safeguard Properties is the largest privately held field services company in the country. Located in Cleveland, OH  and founded in 1990 by Robert Klein, Safeguard has grown from a regional preservation company with a few employees and a handful of contractors performing services in the Midwest, to a national company with over 450 employees.  Safeguard is supported by a nationwide network of subcontractors able to perform any requested superintendence, preservation, and maintenance functions, as well as numerous ancillary services in the U.S., the Virgin Islands, and Puerto Rico.