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DCD>Awards category - Outstanding Contribution to the Data Center Industry

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Following months of deliberating, DCD has announced the winners of the 13th annual DCD>Awards

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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.

Click here to see the names of all the finalists.

A testament to their advanced reliability features, especially impressive under the hot Australian sun!

Laura Rogers of Morrison Hershfield was awarded Young Mission Critical Engineer of the Year at the 2018 ceremony hosted at The Lancaster Hotel.

Senior Manager Sunday Opadijo, the man in charge of critical infrastructure at Rack Centre, has won the prestigious Data Center Manager Of the Year Award.

Apple, Akamai, Etsy and Swiss Re collaborated to generate over 290MW of new renewable generation capacity across four data center operators.

Winning the Design Team of the Year Award, at the DCD>Awards 2017, RagingWire selected Page to partner on the design of a new 1 million sq ft TX-1 campus in Garland, Texas.

Whilst the client has traditionally used in-house design and construction personnel, this unique hybrid integrated project delivery model was developed to work at scale which improved design, quality, speed-to-market, and saved costs.

This award was sponsored by Vertiv.

Hydro66 is led and financed by Internet industry veteran David Rowe, founder and CEO of Easynet. Its first data center is located in the leading cloud and data center cluster in the Nordics and is powered using locally generated clean green hydropower.

This award was sponsored by Schneider Electric.

Project Volutus is one of Vapor.io’s unique cylindrical designs inside a cell tower, to offer services using a retail colocation model.

BSC wins the DCD>Awards most beautiful data center in 2017

Digiplex, the sustainable Nordic data center builder-operator, demonstrated a great improvement with cost savings that which earned them the Data Center Operations Team of the Year Award at DCD>Awards in 2017.

Previously, Ulven was the oldest and worst performing of all DigiPlex’s data centers. In summer 2016, a team was convened to improve the facility’s performance, whose work resulted in a record-breaking annual energy cost saving.

This award was sponsored by Eaton.

Microsoft’s ‘Stark and Simple’ design collapses the entire energy supply chain, into a small fuel cell at the top of each rack. The result is a very efficient generator that produces electricity and by-products that can be reused; like clean water, high grade heat, and pure CO2.

This award was sponsored by CBRE