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Best In Class Data Centre Europe Awards Presented At Gala Ceremony Data Centres Europe, the annual industry content driven
event for business leaders in the sector, held a gala awards ceremony
at the InterContinental Park Lane Hotel in central London. The awards
were presented by Tim Anker, vice chairman of the Judges Panel, in front
of hundreds of industry executives attending the 4th annual event. eBusiness
Resilience Centre (eBRC) of Luxembourg won the award for Best Data Centre
Operator Europe. The shortlist had also included Capgemini, COLT Telecommunications
and Data Electronics (Ireland). The highly contested Best Managed Services
Provider award was won for the second year in a row by specialist Internet
and enterprise applications operator, Attenda. Other runners up included
Baltic Data Center UAB, Capgemini and easynet. The Best Disaster Recovery
Provider award was won by network-neutral data centre and interconnection
services provide, Equinix. Companies in the short list included eBRC
and Mainroad (Portugal).In the best Power Product category, data centre
solutions firm, Validus LLC (USA) won the award. Runners up included
APC and Raritan. Best cooling product was won by APC with the shortlist
including Chatsworth Product and HP. This year included a new category
the Data Centres Europe Green Award, which was won by Equinix. Runners
up included Smartbunker and TelecityGroup. One of the most prestigious
awards, the Outstanding Leader in Data Centres Award 2008 (CEO Award)
was awarded to Michael Tobin, CEO, TelecityGroup. Mr Tobin won the award
for the second year running against considerable international competition.
The shortlist included Michael F. Faust, CEO and Director, Digital Realty
Trust and Bill Clifford, CEO, Aperture.The Judges Panel comprised of
Ashley R. Davis, Managing Director, JP Morgan Chase (chairman), Tim
Anker, Founder, The Colocation Exchange (vice chairman), Andrew Harrison,
Associate Director, ARUP, Steven Berry, Associate Director, ARUP, Greg
Sherry, European Chairman, BICSI and Nicola Hayes, Vice President, BroadGroup.
Sponsors include BCS, Migration Solutions, Equinix, Citadel100, Datacenter
Luxembourg/Inexio, Cellwatch, ARUP, Active Power, BICSI, Lamda Hellix
Data Centers, VMWare, Tyco Electronics, the Colocation Exchange, Armstrong,
TelecityGroup, CB Richard Ellis, Ni2, CNet, SandIT, eBRC and GVA Grimley.
Media Partners include the Web Hosting Industry Review, Data Centre
Solutions. The Datacenter Journal and Data Centre News.
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