On Thursday night we won the Big Green Chip Award at the Big Chip Awards.
It was a fantastic night. As we near completion of our new data centre we wanted to generate more awareness of what Melbourne is and what we can offer and this was the perfect result.
We have long worked with the digital media sector, but naturally we want to make more contacts within the industry.
The Big Green Chip award recognises businesses that have made an active and notable contribution to reducing their carbon footprint in their organisation or community. So by winning in front of a large and well-connected digital media audience was simply magnificent.
Our submission included our work with:
- Installing cool aisle containment and blanking plates to contain cold air
- The switch to low-power servers for all our dedicated servers, which use approximately 25% less power than their predecessors
- The adoption of highly efficient UPS systems
- Our Virtualisation product UltraCloud, which drastically reduces the amount of power required for servers.
Our clients and friends AdInsight, who sat with us, also picked up the award for Best Newcomer, which made it an even more special night for us.
If you want to know more about our green initiatives please do not hesitate to get in touch.
And before I go we are at the ISPA awards and have been nominated for Best Dedicated Hosting. If you are at the awards on the 9th July stop by and say, “hello.” Hopefully we’ll still be coherant at that point.
Daniel Foster, Technical Director.
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