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2013 Green Enterprise IT Award Honorees
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Uptime Institute is pleased to announce the 2013 Green Enterprise IT (GEIT) Award honorees.

Uptime Institute gratefully acknowledges the sponsor of the 2013 GEIT Awards,
Sabey Data Centers  
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Uptime Institute grants Green Enterprise IT (GEIT) Awards to projects, ideas, and products that significantly improve energy productivity and resource use in IT. The Awards are open to applicants in all countries and are carefully judged by a committee of independent experts in a double-blind review process. Award winners are honored at the annual Uptime Institute Symposium.

Winners
Audacious Idea
TeraCool  
Linking Data Centers and LNG Terminals for Industrial Ecology Benefits
Facility Design Implementation
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), The RMH Group and H+L Architecture
World-class Supercomputing Center Designed to Achieve 1.08 PUE

Facility Design Innovation
TD Bank Group  
Designing a Tier III Data Center to Achieve LEED Platinum Certification
Facility Product Deployment
University of Leeds, Iceotope and 3M Company
University of Leeds Saves Energy by Installing Iceotope/3M Liquid-cooled Servers
Facility Retrofit
Interxion
Multiple Facility Seawater Cooling Implementation
Green Digital Infrastructure Strategy
Cisco Systems
Cisco’s Global Lab Energy Management Program
IT Product Deployment
Arc Productions and TSO Logic
Green Technology Saves Data Center Massive Amounts of Energy
IT Retrofit
Avnet
Avnet’s Data Center Strategy Significantly Reduces Costs and Energy Consumption 


Winners will present their case studies at Symposium 2013.

Finalists 
Audacious Idea Microsoft 
Microsoft Data Plant Project
Facility Design Implementation Melbourne Water and Norman Disney & Young 
Melbourne Water Green Data Center
Facility Design Innovation TELUS Corporation and Skanska 
TELUS Intelligent Internet Data Center
Facility Product Deployment Lawrence Berkeley National Lab and SynapSense Corporation
Energy Savings with Reliability from Data Center Fan Control
Facility Retrofit Schuberg Philis and De Vlieg Techniek
Replacing and Optimizing Cooling System Without Downtime, Installing Free Cooling and Energy Storage Wells
Green Digital Infrastructure Strategy  Avnet 
Multi-Year Green Technology Strategy Significantly Improves Avnet’s Energy Efficiency
IT Product Deployment NTT DATA and Intel® Corporation
Business Continuity and Efficiency Using Dynamic IT Power Provisioning
IT Retrofit Stanford University
Server Room Consolidation: Advancing a Research Mission While Conserving Energy

In addition, the following case studies received an Honorable Mention:

Honorable Mentions 
Audacious Idea QTS (Quality Technology Services) 
Efficiency and Cost Savings Through Isolated Rack-cooling Duct
Facility Design Implementation University of St Andrews, IT Services 
600-year-old University Builds Highly Energy Efficient, Gold CEEDA Award-winning Data Center
Facility Design Innovation eBay, Winter Street Architects, and AHA Consulting Engineers 
Enterprise-scale Use of Fuel Cells for Primary Power in a Modular Expandable Green Data Center

All honorees (Winners, Finalists and Honorable Mentions) are invited profile their case studies at the GEIT Awards Showcase.
 
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