The most prestigious accolades in the data center industry will be presented at the 6th Annual DatacenterDynamics EMEA Awards on December 13th at the Lancaster London Hotel.

Special non-shortlisted awards for Outstanding Contribution to the Industry and Business Leader of the Year will also be presented at the ceremony.

George Rockett, chief strategy officer at DatacenterDynamics, said: “The DatacenterDynamics EMEA Awards form part of the Global Awards Programme which recognises innovation and leadership across the data center industry. The judging process, conducted by industry experts from across the sector, will continue between now and the Gala ceremony on December 13th which will see this year’s people and projects join previous winners as the recognised leaders in the data center industry. Built up over the last six years the DatacenterDynamics Awards are the most sought after in the industry.”

The Global Awards Programme consists of separate awards which celebrate the people, companies and developments in markets including North America, LATAM, Brazil, China and South East Asia.
 

The 2012 DatacenterDynamics EMEA Awards Finalists are:

CATEGORY 01 - FUTURE THINKING & DESIGN CONCEPTS

Asetek, Inc. for RackCDU Liquid Cooling System For Data Center Efficiency

Iceotope for The Iceotope Liquid Cooling Solution

Munters Ltd for DigiPlex A2A Indirect Evaporative Cooling Modular Data Centre Solution

University of Tromsø for Design And Implementation Of A Data Center Based On Hot Water Cooling  

CATEGORY 02 - DATA CENTER BLUEPRINTS       

Cable & Wireless Worldwide C&W Worldwide - Urban Blueprint

Digital Realty for Optimised Chilled-Water Cooling Solution At Digital Chessington

Lloyds Banking Group forHorizon Datacentre Programme

Mafi Mushkila Limited          for Rack Mounted Server Emulator Development

CATEGORY 03 - INNOVATION IN THE MICRO-DATA CENTER  

Cannon Technologies for Cannon T4 Modular Data Centre

Euclyde Data Centers for Neoclyde Data Centre

Mercedes-Benz for Mercedes-Benz UK Primary Data Centre

NHS Airedale, Bradford and Leeds for NHS Bradford, Airedale & Leeds High Density Data Centre

CATEGORY 04 - INNOVATION IN THE MEDIUM-DATA CENTER           

ARM Ltd for New High Performance Computing (HPC) Data Centre

Colt Technology Services for Colt - A New Generation Of Data Centres

GSI for GSI MiniCube Data Center Powered By eCube

Sudlows for The BelleVue Data Centre - Sudlows

CATEGORY 05 - INNOVATION IN THE MEGA-DATA CENTER   

Ark Continuity           for Ark Continuity's Spring Park Data Centre

HP for HP Suttons, Reading – BCRS Facility Phase II.

MEEZA for M-VAULT 3

SBERBANK of Russia for Sberbank Mega Datacenter

CATEGORY 06 - LEADERSHIP IN THE PUBLIC SECTOR

Kent County Council for Kent Connects Regional Data Centres

MITA for MITA-01 Corporate Data Centre - Government Of Malta

Nottinghamshire County Council for Nottinghamshire County Council Data Centre

Trinity College Dublin          for Trinity College Green Data Centre

CATEGORY 07 - INNOVATIONS IN OUTSOURCING          

De Novo for De Novo DC

Interoute for Interoute Virtual Data Centre

Linxdatacenter for Cloud Linxdatacenter Facility In Warsaw

Vtesse for Arup Move To Vtesse Cirrus

CATEGORY 08 - THE 'GREEN' DATA CENTER        

Equinix for  Equinix Renewable Heating Project

Hetzner Online AG for Hetzner Online Data Center Parks

TelecityGroup for TelecityGroup’s AMS5 Data Centre

Verne Global for Verne Global’s Dual-Sourced, Renewable Powered Datacentre 

CATEGORY 09 - IMPROVED DATA CENTER ENERGY EFFICIENCY    

Green Datacenter AG for greenDatacenter Zurich West

Interxion for Seawater Cooling Project

LAMDA Hellix Data Centers SA for LAMDA Hellix Mission Critical Facility

TIZZON B.V. for PCM Control

CATEGORY 10 - INNOVATION IN IT OPTIMISATION         

Interoute for Interoute Virtual Data Centre Cloud Migration

Logica (now part of CGI) for            Logica - Data Centre Consolidation Programme

Sleek Networks Ltd for Sleek Cloud Alignment

University of St Andrews for ICT Transformation At The University Of St Andrews

CATEGORY 11 - THE MOST EXTREME DATA CENTER DEPLOYMENT          

Asteros for The Oil Company "Bashneft" Corporate Data Center

Cannon Technologies for Cannon T4 Modular Data Centre

FORTRUST for FORTRUST IO Modular Data Centers

Minkels for Swiss Cold War Bunker Project

CATEGORY 12 - YOUNG MISSION CRITICAL ENGINEER OF THE YEAR        

Arup: Chris Tolmie

IBM France: Emmanuel Tong-Viet

Red Engineering Design Ltd: Alex Nock

Romonet: Ehsaan Farsimadan

CATEGORY 13 - DATA CENTER 'SPECIAL ASSIGNMENT' TEAM OF THE YEAR    

Colt Technology Services: Colt/Verne Global Delivery Team

Lloyds Banking Group: Horizon Prorgramme Team

MITA: MITA-01 Data Centre Migration Project - MALTA

UKFast: Migration Team

The DatacenterDynamics EMEA Awards’ headline sponsor is infinity. DatacenterDynamics is grateful to infinity and to all the category sponsors for their continued support. 

A limited number of tickets remain. To attend the event or for more information about the awards contact [email protected]