Building a great building company

Sun 08.07.2011

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Like a lot of mid-tier companies in tech or consumer products, those in the building and construction industry face an everyday fight to stand out from the competition. How are you different? What’s special about you? Are you reliable, stable? Are your people the best? What about your methods and processes? Do your customers trust you? What do you stand for in the first place? Why choose YOU?

A lot of really solid businesses don’t look that way to the outside world. People want to believe, but you need to show them the way.

That starts with a strong visual brand.

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Xiotech Sweeps 2011 Microsoft TechEd Best of Show Awards

Thu 05.19.2011

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Following up on our post earlier this week, we’re happy to announce that our client Xiotech moved from finalist to belle of the ball last night by carrying off not one but TWO great awards at the 2011 Microsoft TechEd Best of Show competition held in Atlanta.

First and foremost, the event’s most prestigious “Breakthrough Product” award went to Xiotech’s new Hybrid ISE Storage Blade, whose gorgeous exterior industrial design was provided by Foster + Redmond. In earning this award, the company beat out 300 submissions and 48 other finalists in 15 categories, including the likes of Cisco, Citrix and CommVault.

Xiotech was also recognized with the “Attendee’s Pick” award, capping off not only a great night but an outstanding effort developing a product that we (and obviously the rest of the industry, too) think defines the future of the data storage & application acceleration industry.

Our congratulations to Xiotech, and again many thanks and praises to the F+R design team for this award-winning work.

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Coming soon to a data center near you, this F+R-designed storage blade

Mon 05.16.2011

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Just a quick post to inform our clients and other followers that in the spirit of designing without limits, we’ve recently moved beyond just pixels into product and packaging.

This just-introduced Xiotech Hybrid ISE storage blade brings with it the same level of outside appeal as it features inside, and the product has been named as a finalist in Microsoft’s Best of TechEd 2011 Awards being held this week in Atlanta. Check out the details of this nomination on Xiotech.com

Many thanks and as always, congratulations to the F+R design team.

 

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Foster+Redmond is our ‘practice’, Orbital is our ‘technique’

Wed 03.09.2011

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Foster+Redmond recently launched The Orbital Factorie, an innovative social media focused team utilizing marketing and digital brand experience to enhance the correlation between social media tactics and core business strategy. During Orbital’s first public undertaking, Foster Redmond’s Christian Markley presented an engaging seminar focusing on the rising trend of using social media as a dynamic component of the overall business strategy. This is the second social media seminar that Christian has given to the members of the Upper Perkiomen Valley Chamber of Commerce. In this second presentation, he expanded on the topics of Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn that were addressed in the first presentation in May 2010.

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