This Award category is designed to reward those conceptual, design and management skills required to translate corporate IT service and capacity requirements into a new datacenter. Behind every cutting edge datacenter are a number of great ‘blueprint’ design and management ideas and this Award is about recognising the thinking that is currently ushering in the next generation of data centres. With the challenges confronting the industry now moving quicker and hitting harder than ever before so the skills required in design, project management and construction need to raise the bar continually in terms of innovation, efficient resource use, future-proofing and delivery.
- The person or organisation responsible for the idea or concept and its origination must be based in EMEA [Europe Middle East or Africa]
- The designs, concepts or ideas must have been originally developed in application to a data centre in EMEA
- This Award is open to any sector within the data centre industry (owners, operators, consultants, architects and designers, vendors, suppliers, project managers etc)
- The blueprint, concept or idea must have been developed and used in relation to a datacenter project since July 2010 for a datacenter that will be operational after 31st December 2011.
If you wish to base your entry on data centres or projects that will be operated before 31st December 2011 please look at categories 03, 04 or 05 which have been designed for datacenters already in or close to operation.
- The importance of the conceptutalisation, design and construction challenges addressed by the blueprint [10%]
- Demonstrates innovative, 'out of the box' thinking to solve key challenges [30%]
- Demonstrable and validated success in meeting the challenges [40%]
- Relevance across wider industry builds [20%].
