The fourth Green IT Awards ceremony took place on May 9th at the Grand Connaught Rooms in London.
Showcasing and rewarding the technology, tools and solutions as well as the companies and organisations that have made a significant contribution to improving the IT industry's environmental performance over the past 12 months, the Green IT Awards have also become the event where the industry gets together to network, exchange thoughts and ideas, and dare we say it, have a little bit of fun as well!
Over 140 supporting guests gathered to see the outcome of the readers on line voting and judging panel’s deliberations.
The foundations for a great evening were laid with some fantastic support from our sponsors for this year, BCS The Chartered Institute for IT, Iomart Hosting and ReadSoft. Our huge thanks go to them for their support.
The evening started with a drinks reception which allowed everyone to catch up with old friends and start to make new ones. Following a short speech from Richard French from BCS The Chartered Institute for IT and a superb 3 course dinner, we were entertained by Stephen Grant, star of many, TV and radio shows. Following Stephen we were delighted to welcome Sarah Fraser from Rainforest Concern who gave us the background on the winner’s awards for 2013, which were the sponsorship of 1 acre of rainforest in The Choco Andean Rainforest Project in northwest Equador, so helping to preserve the bio-diversity found in the region. The 2013 awards ceremony then commenced and the results of the voting and judges deliberations are set out below. Our congratulations to you all.
The 2013 Green IT Awards Winners
One to Watch Company
Winner: Nimbus Data Systems
Runner Up: Cannon Technologies Ltd
One to Watch Product
Winner: Boston – Viridis
Runner Up: Nimbus Data Systems
Environmental Project of the Year in the Public Sector
Winner: Intuitive Business Intelligence with Harper Adams University for Intuitive Dashboards
Runner Up: Esteem with The Scottish Borders Council for The Scottish Boarders Council IT System
Environmental Project of the Year in the Private Sector Under 100 Employee
Winner: Vesk with The British Refugee Council for Virtual Desktops
Runner Up: Sudlows with the BelleVue Data Centre
Environmental Project of the Year in the Private Sector Over 100 Employee
Winner: V1 with Nichols PLC – Document Management Green Meter
Runner Up: Mahindra Satyam – Car Pool Portal
Recycling Project of the Year
Winner: Computer Aid for 200,000+ Recycled PC's to Africa
Runner Up: Data City Exchange for Evo-POD
Sustainable Design Project of the Year
Winner: Green Mountain for The Green Mountain Data Centre
Runner Up: Infosys – The Internet of Things Centre of Excellence
Carbon Project of the Year
Winner: Raritan with Cisco for Intelligent PDU / LabEnergy Management Software
Runner Up: Samsung Electronics for Carbon footprinting the Galaxy Note and S2
Cloud/Virtualisation Project of the Year
Winner: Fordway with the BAM Nuttall/Ferrovial/Kier (BFK) Joint Venture for Cloud Infrastructure on the Crossrail Project
Runner Up: Linklaters – Energy Smart IT – Project Sunset/Project Virtualisation
Team of the Year
Winner: Cannon Technologies Ltd for The Cannon T4 Modular Data Centre Team
Runner Up: Infosys Ltd for The Internet of Things Centre of Excellence
