(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Data center operator and hosting provider Terremark Worldwide (www.terremark.com) announced on Monday it has been named one of IDG’s Computerworld (www.computerworld.com) top Green-IT Organizations for 2009.
The announcement follows last week’s Green Enterprise IT Awards, held by data center research firm The Uptime Institute and US Department of Energy.
The recognition is particularly notable for Terremark since it was the only hosting provider that is included on the top 12 list.
IBM was named the top green-IT organization, with Hewlett-Packard, Fujitsu America, Microsoft, and Qualcomm rounding out the top five.
The entire list can be viewed on Computerworld’s website.
This is the second year in a row that Computerworld has compiled the list, which identifies organizations that are “implementing smart, efficient strategies to achieve green IT,” according to the media publication.
The list is published as part of Computerworld’s annual Top Green-IT Organizations feature, which is included in the April 20 issue of Computerworld and on the Computerworld website.
Technology vendors and data center suppliers were invited to participate in Computerworld’s search for the Top Green-IT Organizations.
The companies were asked to complete a survey and were judged on the same criteria, with a focus on their IT departments’ efforts to reduce energy consumption in their IT equipment, and to use technology to conserve energy and lower carbon emissions.
With the help of green-IT industry experts, Computerworld applied a set of criteria to identify the organizations that are working to reduce energy consumption in IT equipment and are using technology to conserve energy and lower carbon emissions.
Computerworld used this criteria to finalize the top 12 Green-IT Users and top 12 Green-IT Vendors lists, which were chosen from the 94 participating organizations.
“Maximizing the energy efficiency across our data centers has the dual effect of reducing our operational costs and limiting our overall impact on the environment,” says Manuel D. Medina, chairman and CEO of Terremark. “Our commitment to energy efficiency extends across our company from the innovative products and services we provide government and enterprise customers to the methods we use to cool our facilities.”
Terremark says it uses different energy-efficient methods within its global data centers to reduce its power consumption, including hot-aisle/cold-aisle air segregation, computational fluid dynamics modeling and employing rotary uninterruptible power supply systems.
Last year, Terremark Worldwide opened a new “green” data center in Culpepper, Virginia, which it says will provide more efficient heating and cooling.
Along with implementing innovative power conservation strategies in its world-class data centers, Terremark’s suite of industry-leading virtualized products provides customers with reliable, enterprise-ready solutions for their IT infrastructure needs while minimizing their environmental impact.
Terremark provides a range of managed solutions including managed hosting, colocation, disaster recovery, security and cloud computing services.
