Eighteen projects receive global recognition for data center design and operations efficiency.
Uptime Institute, an independent division of The 451 Group, has announced 18 winning projects in the first annual Brill Awards for Efficient IT. In the judgment of more than 90 industry professionals who evaluated project submissions from leading enterprises around the world, these projects best exhibited efficiency in data center and IT operations in the broadest sense of the word — efficiency of capital deployment, technology, design, operations, and overall management. The Brill Awards seeks to showcase companies and technologies that improve the industry's ability to sustainably deliver IT services to the end user.
Kevin Heslin, Brill Awards program director, said, "Our work at the Uptime Institute brings us around theworld. We have found that borders do not limit innovation or the desire to lower costs and to increase reliability. The Brill Award sattracted worthy entrants from 19countries, and we believe that honoring the best of these projects will provide incentive for continuous improvement in IT, wherever data centers are found."