about 6 years ago by Lucy Cinder
Following months of deliberations, DCD has announced the winners of the annual DCD Awards, celebrating the industry’s best data center projects and most talented people.
The winners received their trophies on Thursday evening, at a gala ceremony held at the Lancaster Hotel in London, hosted by comedian Deborah Frances-White.
The finalists were selected by an independent panel of data center experts from hundreds of entries, arriving from across the world.
The Infrastructure Scale-Out Award
Winner: CyrusOne
CyrusOne greenfield data center in Allen, Texas, uses multiple technologies to minimize its environmental impact and a unique modular approach that enabled rapid deployment.
The Smart Data Center Award
Winner: Equinix
With over 13,000 active connections, ECX Fabric has the richest ecosystem, and is becoming the de facto global standard for how enterprises and service providers connect to the cloud.
The Data Center Eco-Sustainability Award
Winner: The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (US)
With a world-leading annualized average PUE of 1.036 and pioneering work in component-level liquid cooling, NREL's entry really impressed the judges.
Energy Efficiency Improvers Award
Winner: ST Telemedia Global Data Centres
By developing its own pre-cooled coil, ST Telemedia Global Data Centres enabled partial free-cooling in its Singapore data center, proving the concept in a tropical climate and unlocking considerable energy savings.
Mission Critical Innovation Award
Winner: Microsoft
Microsoft worked with their technology partner Eaton to turn tried-and-true UPS technology into a value-generating power grid asset. This is the second year running that Microsoft picks up this award!
Cloud Migration of the Year
Winner: American Express
The project involved hundreds of scrum teams, thousands of engineers across the globe and the re-engineering of hundreds of applications. As a result, 77 percent of their cloud-eligible apps have been migrated already.
Data center Operations Team of the Year - Enterprise
Winner: Sabesp
Brazil’s Sabesp is the world’s fourth largest water utility, serving 28 million people. The team successfully deployed a massive IoT monitoring system to absorb and process demand response across their network.
Data Center Operations Team of the Year – Colo+Cloud
Winner: NEXTDC
Australia-based NEXTDC demonstrated a holistic approach to facilities management, underpinned by adherence to Uptime Institute’s Tier IV Gold certification for operational sustainability.
Data Center Manager of the Year
Winner: Sunday Opadijo, Rack Centre
Working in the harshest of environmental conditions, including high humidity and the temperamental power grid of Nigeria, Sunday and his team have maintained 100 percent uptime and dealt with situations that would send shivers down most data center managers’ spines.
Design Team of the Year
Winner: NEXTDC
NEXTDC Engineering + partners Aurecon have been awarded the Design Team of the Year for designing and building Australia’s first data centers to receive Tier IV certification from Uptime Institute - a testament to their advanced reliability features, especially impressive under the hot Australian sun!
Industry Initiative of the Year
Winner: University of East London
The EURECA project impressed our judges by playing a major role in improving energy efficiency across Europe and saving data centers at least 52GWh per year. The project’s effect is being felt in the policies, standards, and best practices it helped shape - and these will impact the industry for years to come. Eureka!
Young Mission Critical Engineer of the Year
Winner: Laura Rogers, Morrison Hershfield
Laura Rogers is truly the 'one to watch.' Her market knowledge, technical strengths, drive for personal growth and well-honed skill-set made her our judges’ favorite. Committed to continuous improvement, Laura is always looking for ways to add value at work.
Corporate Social Responsibility Award
Winners: Apple, Akamai, Etsy and Swiss Re
With over 290MW of new renewable generation capacity across four data center operators, this ambitious and historic collaboration showed our judges what can happen on a global scale when big tech companies come together to put actionable climate change strategies in place.
source datacenterdynamics
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