The logo and rating system for BCS' The Certified Energy Efficiency Datacenter Award
(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — The Chartered Institute for IT, formerly known as British Computer Society (www.bcs.org), launched a new certification last month that aims to give European data center owners a new own green IT standard for facilities.
The new standard for green data centers follows in the footsteps of The US Green Building Council’s LEED standard.
Based on the European Union’s Code of Conduct for Data Centers, The Certified Energy Efficiency Datacenter Award (www.ceeda-award.org) assigns Bronze, Silver and Gold ratings for data centers.
“There are not a lot of best practice schemes that are specific for data centers, that will help operators improve their energy efficiency,” BSC chairman Zahl Limbuwala told eWeek Europe. “We have the EU Code of Conduct for Data Centers, but the issue with that is that it is a self-certifying program. It doesn’t attempt to see what the operator is doing onsite. We felt this represented a void in the market, for operators who are looking for accreditation on energy efficiency in their data centers, but which independently verifies the work they have done.”
CEEDA ratings are rewarded following an assessment by third-party auditors on the areas of data center utilization, IT equipment and services, cooling, data center power equipment, data center building and monitoring.
Each certification ranking requires an increasing level of criteria, with a Gold rating requiring a PUE of less than 1.5 for the 12 months leading up to certification.
BCS promotes green practices to its 70,000 members and the rest of the UK technology industry.
The oraganization became the first professional group to register with the EU’s Code of Conduct for Data Centers. Soon after, the group launched a green education program for IT professionals.
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