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2012 Green Enterprise IT Award Categories

In 2012, Uptime Institute invites Green Enterprise IT (GEIT) Award applications in eight categories. Click on the category name for more information about the category and relevant projects.

Category

Description

Who may apply

Facility Design - Innovation
Cutting-edge data center designs that focus on energy and resource efficiency.

Design only - no operational data required
Data center owner/operator
OR
the architect, engineer, or contractor of record in partnership with data center owner/operator
Facility Design - Implementation Cutting-edge data center projects that demonstrate energy and resource efficiency in a new, operational data center.

Design plus implementation - requires minimum of 6 months of operational data.
Data center owner/operator
OR
the architect, engineer, or contractor of record in partnership with data center owner/operator
Facility Retrofit
Data center facility retrofit projects that significantly improved energy and/or resource efficiency in an existing data center.
Data center owner/operator
OR
a consultant in partnership with data center owner/operator
IT Retrofit
Projects in which IT operations staff significantly improved energy and/or resource efficiency while improving IT effectiveness.

Within the data center or throughout the organization.

Data center owner/operator
OR
a consultant in partnership with data center owner/operator
Facility Product Deployment
Facility infrastructure products that significantly improve data center energy and/or resource efficiency, as demonstrated in a user deployment.

This is a joint Award.

Site infrastructure vendor in partnership with
  • data center owner/operator*
OR
  • a consultant in partnership with data center owner/operator*
IT Product Deployment
IT products that significantly improve energy and/or resource efficiency,  as demonstrated in a user deployment. 

Within the data center or throughout the organization.

This is a joint Award.
IT hardware, software, or application vendor in partnership with
  • data center owner/operator*
OR
  • a consultant in partnership with data center owner/operator*
Modular Data Center Product Deployment
Resource- and energy-efficient modular data center products, as demonstrated in a user deployment in a new or existing data center.

This is a joint Award.

Modular data center product vendor in partnership with
  • data center owner/operator*
OR
  • a consultant in partnership with data center owner/operator*
Audacious Idea New, unprecedented ideas for realizing energy and resource efficiency that are not commercially available in the IT and data center industries.

Products that are commercially available or that have been previously documented in trade journals will not be considered.

Anyone

* Note that vendors may not present case studies of deployments in their own facilities or in facilities owned by subsidiaries of their organization.

 
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