DATA CENTRES EUROPE 2010 AWARDS NOMINATIONS ANNOUNCED
London – 10 March 2010, the organizers and researchers of 6th Data Centres Europe
(www.datacentres.com/dce) have announced a record number of nominations for the Awards from more than 15 countries. The short list and winner will be announced at an Awards Dinner which will take place on the evening of 22nd April at the event venue in Sophia Antipolis, near Nice in France.
Companies nominated for Awards include: 4D Data Centres Ltd, Active Power, Aserver, ASPServeur, Attenda Ltd, Baltic Data Center, BT, Cartagon, Citadel100 Data Centers Ltd, CloudSphere, Computacenter, Continent 8 Technologies, Control Circle, DATA IV Services, Datacenter Luxembourg, Dataplex Ltd, Digital Parks, Digital Realty Trust, e-Business & Resilience Centre, Epsilon Telecommunications, ETDE, Equinix Europe, HP Enterprise Services , Hampshire County Council, IBM, IDG EDS Infinity SDC Ltd, Interxion, Lamda Hellix Data Centers, Mainroad, Microsoft, Next Generation Data, nlyte Software, Onyx Group, PEER 1 Hosting UK, Petroleum Geo Services (PGS) / Keysource, Savvis, Sentilla Corporation, SunGard Availability Services, Star, Strato AG, Telecity Group, UK Grid.
“Data Centre operators confront many new challenges as the pace of change in technologies increases and market growth is sustained,” commented Ashley Davies, managing director at JP Morgan, and chairman of the Judges Panel. “These annual Awards continue to define best in breed benchmarks for service quality, management excellence and technical achievement for the European Data Centre industry”.
“This year’s nominations have revealed both an extremely high quality of entry, and that the prestige of winning a European award is clearly perceived as yielding significant marketing differentiation,” commented Philip Low, managing director at BroadGroup.
The Awards categories are as follows: Best New Entrant in European Data Centre Market, Best European Colocation Facility, Best European Enterprise Data Centre Facility, Best Regional European Data Centre, Best New European Cloud Services Award, Best European Sustainable Data Centre Design Award, Best Industry Cooling Innovation Award, and the Best European Managed Services Provider.
The Best European Green Initiative Award is endorsed and will be presented by The Green Grid.
In addition two special awards will be given: European CTO Award for Innovation in Data Centres and the Judges Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Data Centre Sector.
Sponsors and Partners include APC by Schneider Electric, Interxion, TelecityGroup, XKL, H2O Networks, Euclyde, Digital Realty Trust, eBRC, Migration Solutions, BL International Consultants, Equinix, Cadwin FM, Lamda Hellix Data Centers, ARUP, Scottish Development International, APL, Surf Telecoms, Stulz, Conteg, Dataplex Ltd, Microsoft, CBRE, Noodlesoft Technologies, The Colocation Exchange, Gimélec, Data Centres News Search, IX Consulting, IT One, Econference and Global Security Magazine.
Early Bird Registrations for the event end on March 12th –
www.datacentres.com/dce/register