Behind every definitive product or solution is a great idea and this Award is about recognising the innovation and thinking that is shaping the next generation of cutting edge data centre solutions. With the challenges 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. All our previous winners demonstrate more than anything the power that creative and focused thinking can have in developing solutions that will make a real and positive difference to data centre operation and management.
2010 Winner: Alquist: Celsius high definition energy monitoring system
2009 Winner: Infinity SDC - A UK solution for scalable dark green energy data centre
2008 Winner: BNB Developments Energy methodology for the Elean Data Campus, Cambridge
2007 Winner: DC-CE Beratung, Frankfurt
- The person or organisation responsible for the idea or concept and its origination must be based in EMEA [Europe Middle East or Africa]
- The idea or concept must have been originally developed and/or applied into EMEA data centres
- This Award is open to any sector within the data centre industry (owners, operators, consultants, vendors, suppliers, academics etc)
- The concept or idea must have been developed or introduced since July 1st 2010.
- The importance of the issue/problem addressed by the concept [10%]
- Demonstrates innovative, 'out of the box' thinking to solve key problem or threat [30%]
- Demonstrable and validated success in solving problem or threat [40%]
- Relevance across wider industry under different operating conditions [20%].
- Applications development
- Technologies and solutions development
- Management or transformation strategies
- White Papers
- Provisioning and structuring of DC services within the organisation.
If you wish to base your entry on data centres or projects that are still to be completed please look at 02: Data Centre Blueprints which has been designed for such entries.
