The Green Grid (News - Alert), a non-profit, open industry consortium of IT companies and professionals seeking to improve energy efficiency in data centers and business computing ecosystems around the globe, has recently announced its endorsement to the Green Award for Sustainability in Data Centres. The Green Grid has more than 175 member companies around the world and seeks to unite the data center industry based on the standardization of a common set of metrics, processes, methods and new technologies.
The Green Grid Award for Sustainability will be presented at the annual 2011 Data Centres in Europe Awards which is scheduled to be held in London on June 2, 2011. The event invites entries from data centres, business units, companies and individuals across the UK, Ireland, Europe, Central and Eastern Europe and the closing date for nominations is April 7, 2011.
In a release, Mark Munroe, executive director at the Green Grid said that, “Efficiency in data centres is now a critical requirement for all businesses. However, the Green Grid also considers resource efficiency and increasing the sustainability of natural resources in developing enterprise infrastructure as a wider objective. In endorsing the Green Award for Sustainability at this year’s Data Centres in Europe Awards, we hope to encourage companies to aspire to achieve these exemplary goals.”
Data Centres in Europe Awards, started in 2007, is continuing its tradition with an Awards ceremony and dinner. The event provides an excellent platform for the growing data centre industry across locations in Europe, eastern and central Europe to get together to discuss and share viewpoints. This year’s Award event will provide new benchmarks of aspiration for the companies nominated, and world class recognition for winners. A panel of independent judges will scrutinize the award nominations carefully and choose the winners in each category based on certain criteria such as significant marketing differentiation and credibility.
The eleven award categories include, New Data Centre Award 2011; Enterprise Data Centre Award 2011; Colocation Award 2011; Wholesale Data Centre Award 2011; Facilities Management for Data Centres Award 2011; Cloud Services Award 2011; Managed Services Award 2011; The Green Grid Award for Sustainability; European Award for Energy Efficiency in Data Centres; Data Centre Entrepreneur of the Year Award 2011; and The Data Centre Award for Change and Innovation 2011. The Executive Director of the Green Grid, Mr. Mark Munroe will be presenting the awards on June 2, 2011.
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