FOCUS AWARDS
Issue 6, Oct/Nov 2009
DatacentreLeadersAwards09 Recognising excellence in facility design and operation HAVE YOU BEEN INVOLVED IN A GREAT DATA CENTER PROJECT THIS YEAR?
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 critical sector.
There are stories of real success and achievement which 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 AND DESIGN CONCEPTS
Behind every great product, solution or service is a great idea and this award is about recognising the ideas and concepts that feed into the development of the best data center solutions.
This award rewards the ideas and thinking that have helped conceive and develop solutions or strategies that meet the challenges of tomorrow’s data center.
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2007 Winner: DC-CE Beratung, Frankfurt 2008 Winner: BNB Developments Energy Methodology for the Elean Data Campus, Cambridge
02 INNOVATION IN THE MICRO DATA CENTER
Small may be beautiful, but the design and operation of data centers of fewer than 20 racks may also bring with it its own problems of space utilisation, power distribution and back-up, cooling access and security.
2007 Winner: Comtec Enterprises 2008 Winner: London City Airport Modular Data Center
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03 INNOVATION IN THE MEDIUM DATA CENTER
While market attention has traditionally been focused on very large flagship projects, the medium data center represents, for many UK organisations, 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 CENTER
The mega-data center 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-data center – a facility over 500 racks in size – brings with it its own unique challenges.
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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 organisational 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.
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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.
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2007 Winner: Smart Bunker 2008 Winner: Digital Realty Trust IBM Paris Project
07 THE GREEN DATA CENTER
This award recognises the new reality of designing and operating data centers 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.
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2007 Winner: Citi 2008 Winner: EDS
08 IMPROVED DATA CENTER ENERGY EFFICIENCY
This award recognises the energy-efficiency journey that individual organisations have undergone in order to bring existing facilities up to scratch through the process of measurement, benchmarking, analysis, recommendation and implementation. Innovation may lie in the development of a measurement model that meets accurately the particular facility needs, the identification of opportunities and/or the introduction of technologies, management techniques and strategies to capitalise on such opportunities.
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