Uptime Institute Now Accepting Entries for the Green Enterprise IT Awards 2009.McKinsey & Company and U.S. Department of Energy Partner With Institute in Honoring Data Center Energy Efficiency Pioneers SANTA FE Santa Fe, city, Argentina Santa Fe, city (1991 pop. 341,000), capital of Santa Fe prov., NE Argentina, a river port near the Paraná, with which it is connected by canal. , N.M. -- Uptime Institute (www.uptimeinstitute.org), today announced that the U.S. Department of Energy and global strategic consultancy McKinsey & Company are partnering with the Institute for this year's Green Enterprise IT Awards program. The GEIT GEIT Graphic Era Institute of Technology (India) Awards promote and celebrate those innovative strategies and proven best practices for significantly reducing enterprise IT and data center energy consumption. The Institute is a leading corporate advisory on the economic, business and technology issues related to critical computing environment operational reliability and energy efficiency. In most large corporate organizations, enterprise computing Refers to information technology in the larger company. See enterprise data and enterprise networking. and data centers are the largest consumers of electric power. The unprecedented rapid growth in the power demand of computing has reached near crisis proportions, both for individual companies and for regional power grids. The Institute is at the forefront of educating corporate executives on the scale and seriousness of this crisis and efficiency improvement management actions that need to be taken so that the uptime reliability of mission-critical computing is not interrupted. The 2008 GEIT Award Winners exemplify the innovation of organizations and professionals throughout the industry responding to the IT energy challenge. Visit www.uptimeinstitute.org/green08 to learn more about the 2008 winners, including UPS, Office Depot Office Depot (NYSE: ODP) is one of the world's leading suppliers of office products and services. The Company's selection of brand name office supplies includes business machines, computers, computer software and office furniture, while its business services encompass copying, , and Sun Microsystems Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA[3]) is an American vendor of computers, computer components, computer software, and information-technology services, founded on 24 February 1982. . 2009 Award honorees and winners will be announced at the 4th Annual Uptime Institute Research Symposium: LEAN, CLEAN, and GREEN, the Global Energy Future of Enterprise IT and the Data Center, in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. , April 13-16, 2009, at the Hilton New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of (www.uptimeinstitute.org/symposium). The annual Symposium tackles economic, strategic and operational hurdles and develops industry benchmarks for improving energy efficiency in data centers. Honoree companies will present the peer-reviewed case-study papers on their winning initiatives as a key component of the symposium formal program. The purpose of these sessions, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Institute Executive Director Ken Brill, "is to encourage their industry peers to be champions of change within their own organizations." The GEIT Awards judging criteria are specifically designed to select projects with potential to serve as models of the realistic feasibility and measureable impact of aggressive energy efficiency initiatives. Winners' case studies will be featured in Podcasts and white papers to be posted at uptimeinstitute.org. This year, the Institute expands its program scope to include both IT productivity improvement ("lean"), clean renewable energy alternatives and electronics, and green buildings. More than 200 (of the planned-for 800-plus) executives and senior IT and data center professionals from among the world's largest operators of critical computing facilities have already registered for the Symposium, including Bank of Montreal “BMO” redirects here. For the mathematics competition, see British Mathematical Olympiad. Bank of Montreal/Banque de Montréal (TSX: BMO, NYSE: BMO) is Canada's fourth largest bank[1], and is classified as a Domestic Chartered Bank (Schedule I). , Capital One, Coca-Cola, Dell, eBay, Hewlett Packard, IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , Johnson & Johnson, Microsoft, NetApp, Reed Elsevier, State Farm Insurance, Target, Visa and Walt Disney Animation Studios Walt Disney Animation Studios is the animation studio that makes up a key element of The Walt Disney Company, and the oldest surviving animation studio in the world. The feature animation studio was an integrated part of Walt Disney Productions from 1934 (the start of production on . To see who by title and company have now registered visit www.uptimeinstitute.org/delegates. New to this year's GEIT Awards program, the "Uptime Institute Green 100" will recognize the top Fortune 500 and InformationWeek 500 companies with a board-level policy or governance commitment to eco-sustainability, energy efficiency and carbon footprint reduction. To qualify, a company must have named a senior executive as the program director, and there must be a detailed strategy and plan that is being actively implemented, corporately, that specifically includes enterprise IT and data centers. These companies will be publicly acknowledged by the Institute and will be invited to submit papers detailing progress that they have made in their IT-side carbon-footprint-reduction efforts. Those that are the most mature in their programs will be invited to submit applications for both the Green Enterprise IT and the U.S. Department of Energy awards. Last year's Green Enterprise IT Awards winners included AOL (A division of Time Warner, Inc., New York, NY, www.aol.com) The world's largest online information service with access to the Internet, e-mail, chat rooms and a variety of databases and services. , Hewlett Packard, Nationwide Mutual Insurance, NetApp, Office Depot, Sun Microsystems and UPS. To apply for the Green Enterprise IT Awards and to learn more about award benefits visit: uptimeinstitute.org/green09. To register for the 4th Annual Uptime Institute Research Symposium: LEAN, CLEAN, and GREEN, visit: uptimeinstitute.org/symposium. Current Premier Symposium Research Underwriters: HP, IBM, APC (1) (American Power Conversion Corporation, West Kingston, RI, www.apcc.com) The leading manufacturer of UPS systems and surge suppressors, founded in 1981 by Rodger Dowdell, Neil Rasmussen and Emanual Landsman, three electronic power engineers who had worked at MIT. , Johnson Controls and EDSA EDSA Epifanio Delos Santos Avenue (Metro Manila, Philippines) EDSA Eating Disorders Shared Awareness EDSA European Distribution System Aircraft EDSA Electrical Distribution System Analysis EDSA Extensible Directory Service Agent . To see all underwriters as of this date visit www.uptimeinstitute.org/underwriters. Current Media Partners include: Forbes.com, TechTarget SearchDataCenter.com, Mission Critical Magazine, Data Center Journal More About the Uptime Institute: Uptime Institute, inc. (uptimeinstitute.org) is a leading independent research, corporate advisory, knowledge exchange, education and professional services provider serving the owners/operators of enterprise data centers. Institute primary area of expertise is the uptime availability, reliability, resiliency, energy efficiency of enterprise computing within formal critical environments, i.e. computer rooms, server farms, and data centers. The Institute operates a private knowledge community, the Site Uptime Network that conducts research, benchmarking, knowledge-sharing, and best practices for its members who represent 100 of the largest data center owning/operating institutions from around the world. Our intellectual property base includes the de facto [Latin, In fact.] In fact, in deed, actually. This phrase is used to characterize an officer, a government, a past action, or a state of affairs that must be accepted for all practical purposes, but is illegal or illegitimate. industry standard for data center design known as the Tiers Classification System and the Four Metrics for Determining a Green Data Center. |
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