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Uptime Institute Names Winners of Prestigious 2011 Green Enterprise IT Awards New York - April 14, 2011: Uptime Institute, a division of The 451 Group, today announced the winners of the 2011 Green Enterprise IT (GEIT) Awards, which recognize pioneering advancements for significantly improved energy productivity in IT and data center operations. The recipients will be honored at the Uptime Institute Symposium in Santa Clara, California, on May 9-12, 2011, where they will be given the stage to share experiences and insights with industry peers through case-study presentations. The Uptime Institute Symposium is the most influential all-stakeholder thought-leadership conference serving the global data center industry. The 2011 GEIT Awards winners are:
"We received a record number of entries for the 2011 GEIT Awards from companies across the globe doing remarkable things to lead the charge in making the data center industry more efficient," said Andy Lawrence, Program Director of the Uptime Institute Symposium and Research Director for Eco-Efficient IT, The 451 Group. "Uptime Institute's GEIT Awards program educates the data center and IT industries on new initiatives to effectively reduce energy consumption by highlighting the cutting-edge achievements of large enterprises, as well as smaller organizations." Uptime Institute also announced the following 2011 GEIT Awards finalists: Akamai Technologies (Audacious Idea); KPMG (Beyond the Data Center); Brocade Communications Systems (Data Center Design); Yahoo! (Facilities Innovation); SynapSense and AT&T (Outstanding Facilities Product in a User Deployment); and HP Brasil and Bradesco (Outstanding IT Product in a User Deployment). The 2011 GEIT Awards are being sponsored by i/o Data Centers and entries were thoroughly reviewed by a committee of independent judges. The GEIT Award winners' case-study presentations are scheduled throughout the Symposium. This year's Symposium, themed The Disrupted Data Center: Cloud, Cost, Capacity and Carbon, will focus on strategies and best practices for anticipating and responding to disruptive changes such as cloud computing, virtualization, volatile demand and rapidly evolving modular architectures. Energy and carbon issues will be the special focus of Day Three of the Symposium, themed The Disrupted Enterprise: Efficiency, Energy and Carbon. The speaker lineup includes distinguished data center industry thought leaders from AOL, Deutsche Bank, eBay, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, SAP, and more. In addition, Symposium Delegates can attend workshops, tutorials and sessions given by over 30 experts from Uptime Institute and analysts from The 451 Group and Tier1 Research. To see all Symposium speakers and full program details, click here. Registration for Symposium, taking place at the Santa Clara Convention Center, is still open. Registrants will receive a Symposium Delegate pass to attend three full days of rich programming, as well as access to the Symposium Expo exhibition hall featuring products and services of leading solutions providers. A one-day pass can be purchased to attend The Disrupted Enterprise: Efficiency, Energy and Carbon on Thursday, May 12, and free Expo-Only passes are also available for people in the Bay Area. For more information, please visit http://symposium.uptimeinstitute.com/. About Uptime Institute Uptime Institute is an unbiased third-party data center research, education and consulting organization focused on improving data center performance and efficiency. The Institute serves all stakeholders of the data center industry, including enterprise and third-party operators, manufacturers, providers and engineers. Uptime Institute Professional Services is the data center management and engineering consulting arm of Uptime Institute. It delivers due diligence assessments and Certifications of site infrastructure and site management in accordance with the Tier and Operational Sustainability Standards. Serving clients worldwide, Uptime Institute Professional Services delivers consulting, Certifications and Accreditations in over 40 countries. For additional information, see http://professionalservices.uptimeinstitute.com. Uptime Institute is a division of The 451 Group, a leading IT analyst and data organization focused on the business of enterprise IT innovation. The 451 Group also operates Tier1 Research, which analyzes the financial and industry implications of developments impacting public and private companies within the hosting, communications and Internet infrastructure sectors; TheInfoPro, a leading advisory and research firm that provides real-world perspectives on the customer and market dynamics of the enterprise information technology landscape by using a unique research methodology harnessing the collective knowledge and insights of leading IT organizations worldwide; and ChangeWave Research, which specializes in identifying and quantifying change in corporate IT purchasing demand, industry and company trends, as well as consumer spending behavior. About Lee TechnologiesLee Technologies is a U.S. based technology solution provider specializing in large-scale data center solutions and professional services to the North American market. Founded in 1983, Lee Technologies designs, builds, operates, monitors and maintains business-critical facilities for some of the most information-reliant private and public sector organizations in the world, including Coca-Cola, Northrop Grumman, the U.S. Department of Defense, Time Warner, Verizon, Harris Corporation, and many others. Ensuring that customer data is always available, reliable and secure, the Lee Technologies team manages more than 700 locations within the U.S. and has eight locations, including its headquarters in Fairfax, Va., and regional representation in Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Houston, Los Angeles, and Seattle. |
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