2009 Green Enterprise IT Awards
| In 2009, the Uptime Institute presented Green Enterprise IT Awards in seven categories. Click on the title to learn more about each Award-winning project. The Uptime Institute thanks the sponsors of the 2009 Green Enterprise IT Awards:
the US Department of Energy, McKinsey & Company, and Forbes.com. |
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| Data Center Energy Efficiency Improvement: Facilities - UniCredit Group |
| Free Cooling in Munich Data Center |
| Addressing risks posed by single point of failure in their Munich data center cooling system, UniCredit Group discovered the opportunity to adopt a green cooling solution. |
| Data Center Energy Efficiency Improvement: IT - AOL |
| AOL Enterprise-Wide Data Center Optimization Project |
AOL launched a data center optimization program to increase IT utilization across AOL's four data centers in the US with the intended purpose of increasing efficiency, reducing operating costs, allowing for future server growth, and deferring costs of expanding to another data center. |
| Data Center Energy Efficiency Improvement: Joint IT and Facilities - MassMutual |
| Green IT Initiatives |
| In an effort to adopt a "green" data center, MassMutual's Corporate Facility Engineering and Data Center Services organizations partnered to aggressively monitor the overall infrastructure and mechanical growth demand on the MassMutual production data center. The collaboration so effectively regained capacity that MassMutual was able to avoid major investments and expenses of building out a new data center. |
| Energy Efficient Products: Facilities - Verari Systems |
| Containerized Green Data Center Technology |
| This case study describes how the combination of BladeRack @X Series servers and FOREST container solutions can improve data center efficiency by more than 100 percent. |
| Energy Efficient Products: IT - APC by Schneider Electric |
| InRow Products with Active Response Controls and Integrated Thermal Containment |
| APC designed row-based cooling solutions to solve the problem of proper heat removal and cold air supply, but it also brought an inherent energy-efficiency advantage. The reduction in the airflow path length reduces the required fan power, thus increasing its efficiency. |
| Facility Design - eNation |
| Integrated Design of Green High-Density Data Center |
| eNation's goal in this project was to design a data center based on social responsibility concepts and complete integration of green principles without compromising availability. |
| Green IT Beyond the Data Center - University of Notre Dame |
| Grid Heating Clusters: Transforming Cooling Constraints into Thermal Benefits |
| University of Notre Dame scientists developed a Grid Heating (GH) paradigm. GH recognizes that, despite evolving low power architectures, demands for increased capability will drive up power consumption toward economic limits on par with capital equipment costs. In contrast to the design of a single facility for centralized compute infrastructure, GH capitalizes on grid and virtualization technologies to distribute compute infrastructure in-line with existing municipal and industrial thermal requirements. |
The Institute also honored the following projects as finalists:
- Free Air-Conditioning POC - Intel
- US Postal Service Cuts Centers' Power Losses Through Improved Power Conversion Technology - Powersmiths International
- Verdiem SURVEYOR Increases Business Profitability and Sustainability - Verdiem
- 5NINES New MegaGreen Data Campus - 5NINES Data Centres
- The World's First LEED Gold-Certified Data Center for New Construction - Citigroup with HP
- The Evolutionary Process Toward Efficiency - NetApp
- Utility IT Energy Efficiency Coalition - Pacific Gas and Electric
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