Uptime Announces Green IT Award Winners
Uptime Announces Green IT Award Winners
May 2, 2008: A range of high-profile companies, including Sun Microsystems, AOL, NetApp and HP, have been praised as data centre energy efficiency pioneers, winning awards in this year’s Uptime Institute Green IT Awards.
The Uptime Institute, a research-based think-tank in the US which advises companies on business and technology issues related to critical computing environment reliability and energy efficiency.
The institute’s Green Enterprise IT Awards honour organisations that are seen as pioneering energy-efficiency improvements in their data centres.
Presented in Orlando at the Uptime Institute Symposium 2008: Green Enterprise Computing, the winners include:
- Sun Microsystems: Energy Efficient IT Hardware Deployment
- UPS: Facilities Site Physical Infrastructure (power and cooling) Overhead
- AOL LLC: Facilities Site Physical Infrastructure (power and cooling) Overhead
- NetApp: IT Hardware Asset Utilisation
- Bank of Montreal: IT Hardware Asset Utilisation
- Nationwide Mutual Insurance: IT Strategy
- Hewlett Packard: IT Strategy
- Hewlett Packard: Green IT Beyond the Data Centre 2008 Green Enterprise IT
- Office Depot: Facilities Site Physical Infrastructure (power and cooling) Overhead
- Intel: Facilities Site Physical Infrastructure (power and cooling) Overhead
- Interior Health Authority of British Columbia: IT Hardware Asset Utilisation
- Hannaford Bros: IT Strategy
- Nationwide Mutual Insurance: Green IT Beyond the Data Centre
Best-in-class finalists included:
“Realising that neither business nor the environment can sustain the costs of the increasing energy demands in data centres, the award-winning companies have displayed leadership and innovation in their data centre energy efficiency efforts,” said Kenneth G. Brill, Institute founder and executive director.
“It is our hope that they will serve as a clear example to the world’s largest operators of critical computing facilities of the realistic impact and feasibility of these types of initiatives.”
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