06 About this award
Te consideration of outsourcing as a priority business option continues to grow. Providers across the outsourcing spectrum have developed new outsourcing models to meet the growth in demand. Providing an outsourcing service, from offering one- stop colocation services to offering hosting and managed service operations brings new challenges. Tis award seeks to underline the importance of the cluster of services that constitute the outsourcing sector.
Sponsor
Norland is a leading provider
of facilities
management and support services in the built environment. It operates from a strategic network of regional offices throughout the UK and Ireland.
Te Critical Environment Division delivers innovative mission-critical solutions that
reduce operational
risk by up to 80% through Norland’s unique trademarked methodology called CE360.
Furthermore, D-Alix’s RE capacity is also going to be increased in the next two to three years with the installation of two more 18MW wind farms designed for high availability in terms of Tier level and up to Tier IV with regards to electricity and air conditioning.
Te project has been assessed by Uptime Institute- accredited engineers to ensure that the critical subsystems are as close to Tier IV specifications as possible, and at least in excess of Tier III.
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Environmentally friendly, integrated with renewable energy (RE) sources, D-Alix is part of a large RE production facility. Tere are more than 20MW of PV and 13MW of wind power installed in the same technological park where D-Alix is built.
Tis capacity will be increased with 400kW of PV power on the roof of the building. Tis will help ensure that nearly all the energy consumed at D-Alix comes from renewable sources.
Innovation in the Outsourced Environment
Winner 2010: D-Alix “Tis award seeks to underline the importance of the cluster of services that
constitute the outsourcing sector”
D-Alix Canary Islands Data Center
D-Alix is a data center located in Tenerife (Canary Islands, Spain). It has been conceived as a high availability Tier III+ infrastructure with 2,000 sq m of technical space with an average energy density of 1,500W per sq m. It has been built using a modular design with a large integration of renewable energy sources.
Finalists 2010 Virtus
Virtus has delivered a newly constructed 27,000-sq-ft-net technical and modular
Tier III concurrently maintainable data center in the uncongested Greater north-east London area. Te data center is constructed to LEED Silver accreditation and offers flexible dedicated data halls with power densities from 1.5kW per sq m to fulfil midi-market (1,500 sq ft – 7,500 sq ft) requirements.
Equinix
Te Equinix Carrier Ethernet Exchange is the first service of its kind to be
successfully deployed globally. Addressing key challenges facing the carrier community, it provides a multi-carrier environment for exchanges between providers of Ethernet services, reducing the complexity of the network-to- network process, accelerating the growth of the Ethernet interconnection market and creating new Ethernet services for carriers.
Interxion has created financial hubs to provide
Within its data centers in the major financial capitals across Europe, Interxion a bespoke
environment for its 200+ financial services customers, where they can connect at low-latency with a community of liquidity venues, market data vendors, brokers, clearers and other market participants.
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