Issue 18, October/November
FOCUS AWARDS 2011
EXCELLENCE ANDINNOVATION The data centre industry’s most prestigious awards return for the fifth year. Open to projects across EMEA from Stockholm to Johannesburg and Reykjavik to the Urals, the Awards are bigger and broader in scope than ever.
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he Data Centre Leaders’ Awards are now into their fifth year of recognising excellence and rewarding innovation in facility design and operations, IT optimisation, outsourcing and the achievement of individuals and teams involved in the industry.
A progressive and responsive ICT and data centre sector is critical to the creation of economic prosperity, commercial competiveness and social enablement. This is why excellence, innovation, professionalism and ingenuity have a real, tangible and practical impact on the way that the
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data centre sector will be able to deliver its own objectives and continue to develop its leadership role. The Awards have developed in tandem with the industry to recognise the excellence and innovation that will continue to drive the industry forward.
This year we have created two new categories, including one for the Most Extreme Data Centre Deployment (see page 48), and all categories this year are open to entries from across the whole of Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
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FUTURE THINKING & DESIGN CONCEPTS
This established Award recognises the ideas and thinking that are shaping the next generation of cutting-edge data centre solutions and products. With the challenges
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DATA CENTRE BLUEPRINTS 02
This new Award category is designed to reward the conceptual, design and management skills required to translate corporate IT
service and capacity
requirements into a gleaming new data centre. Behind every cutting edge data centre are a number of great ‘blueprint’ design and management ideas. The skills required in design, project management and construction need to raise the bar continually in terms of innovation, efficient resource use and project delivery.
confronting the industry now moving quicker and hitting harder than ever before so the solutions developed in response need to raise the bar continually in terms of innovation, ease of deployment and ‘real world’ application.
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2010 Winner: Alquist - Celsius, a high-definition energy monitoring system
INNOVATION IN THE MICRODATA CENTRE
Small may be beautiful but the design and operation of data centres of up to 250kW brings with it its own particular challenges of space utilisation, power distribution and back- up, cooling, access and security. Most micro data centres are situated in buildings designed primarily for purposes other than housing IT accentuating the challenges of designing and operating the micro-data centre.
2010 Winner: University of Hertfordshire - Facility designed under the principle of reduction and reuse of energy in
institutional data centres
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INNOVATION IN THE MEDIUM DATA CENTRE
The efficient design and operation of ‘medium’ data centres — between 250kW and 2.5MW in total facility power requirement — brings with it its own challenges of design, operation and optimisation.
While market attention
has traditionally been focused on very large, flagship projects, the medium data centre represents for many EMEA organisations their principal IT facility and therefore the core of their mission-critical business.
2010 Winner: Tissat - Tier IV Walhalla green data centre in Valencia, Spain
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INNOVATION IN THE MEGA DATA CENTRE
The mega-data centre is the landmark that sustains today’s technology driven
world.
Each enables a quantity of transactions, storage and IT application that make possible
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