FOCUS AWARDS
Issue 5, Aug/Sep 2009
Have you been involved in a great datacentre project this year?
Or do you feel a team or an individual deserves wider recognition by the industry? The 2009 Datacentre Leaders’ Awards is now open for entries. These awards were launched in 2007 in order to recognise innovation and reward excellence in facility design and operations not only in the UK but across Europe
With current debates on energy consumption, data protection and business accountability bringing the industry to centre stage, these awards are an opportunity to showcase the professionalism and ingenuity of this important sector. There are stories of real success and achievement that the industry needs to make public and this awards programme is part of that process. It is about individuals and teams, the people who make this industry what it is today, not just about products and technologies.
This year a number of new categories have been added to the line-up. The full entry criteria for each award category can be found online, along with the entry forms.
01 FUTURE THINKING & DESIGN CONCEPTS
Behind every great product, solution or service is a great idea and this Award is about recognizing the ideas and concepts that feed into the development of the best datacentre solutions. This is possibly the most abstract of our Awards as it rewards the ideas that have helped develop solutions or strategies that meet the challenges of tomorrow’s datacentre. Both previous winners indicate more than anything the power that creative thinking and its application can have in shaping the datacentre of the future.
2007 Winner: DC-CE Beratung, Frankfurt 2008 Winner: BNB Developments Energy methodology for the Elean Data Campus, Cambridge
02 INNOVATION IN THE MICRO-DATA CENTRE
Small may be beautiful but the design and operation of datacentres of fewer than 20 racks may also bring with it its own problems of space utilization, power distribution and back-up, cooling, access and security. Most micro-datacentres are situated in buildings designed primarily for purposes other than housing IT and this may accentuate the challenges of designing and operating a micro-datacentre.
2007 Winner: Comtec Enterprises 2008 Winner: London City Airport Modular Datacentre
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www.datacenterdynamics.com/awards DatacentreLeadersAwards09 Recognising excellence in facility design and operation
03 INNOVATION IN THE MEDIUM-DATA CENTRE
The efficient design and operation of ‘medium’ datacentres - between 20 and 500 racks in size - brings with it its own challenges of design, operation and optimization. While market attention has traditionally been focused on very large, flagship projects, the medium datacentre represents for many UK organizations their principal IT facility and therefore the core of their mission-critical business.
2007 Winner: Ultraspeed Hosting 2008 Winner: Foreign & Commonwealth Office
04 INNOVATION IN THE MEGA-DATA CENTRE
The mega-datacentre is the leviathan that sustains today’s technology-driven world enabling a quantity of transactions, storage and IT application that facilitate many business and life activities. Always newsworthy and occasionally controversial, the mega-datacentre – a facility over 500 racks in size - brings with it its own unique challenges. What may constitute a glitch in a smaller facility can magnify exponentially in a mega-datacentre. Mission-critical issues of availability, efficiency, redundancy and scalability take on a higher risk profile in the largest facilities. Market attention has traditionally been focused on very large, flagship projects, as indicating future directions in best practice and leadership in the datacentre sector.
2007 Winner: Morgan Stanley 2008 Winner: Fujitsu London North Datacentre
05 LEADERSHIP IN THE PUBLIC SECTOR
This Award seeks to recognise the achievement of Government projects and strategies in meeting client/public
and organizational objectives through an emphasis on sound technology and engineering, best practice project/team management and the leadership required to bring together the disparate groups inside and outside Government necessary to deliver the required end result. 2007 Winner: Wolverhampton City Council 2008 Winner: Foreign & Commonwealth Office
06 INNOVATION IN AN OUTSOURCED ENVIRONMENT
This Award underlines the importance of the cluster of services that constitute the outsourcing sector not just in offering space, facility or management options to clients but in furthering the case for outsourcing services. The understanding of market business requirements, their ability to present the best business case for outsourcing and through the development of services that meet the expectations that clients have of outsourcing services are recognised.
2007 Winner: Smart Bunker 2008 Winner: Digital Realty Trust IBM Paris Project
07 THE ‘GREEN’ DATA CENTRE
This Award recognises the new reality of designing and operating datacentres in the context of environmental scrutiny and to celebrate the success of those who have managed to balance their established responsibilities in providing a resilient and responsive facility with the consideration of wider corporate and environmental responsibility. Those, in short, who have seen increasing pressures of power costs, regulation, community and environmental responsibility as an opportunity rather than a problem and have demonstrated their vision of environmental impact as a critical driver in the design and operation of their data facilities.
2007 Winner: Citi 2008 Winner: EDS
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