HP, Office Depot, AOL, UPS Among Finalists for Uptime Institute's Green Computing...

HP, Office Depot, AOL, UPS Among Finalists for Uptime Institute's Green Computing Awards

Keynotes for Institute's April Green Enterprise Computing
Symposium Include Sun Microsystems' Mark Monroe, Yahoo's Christina
Page and Microsoft's Mike Manos
SANTA FE, N.M.--(Business Wire)--
At its third annual Green Enterprise Computing Symposium, April
27-30, Orlando, Fla., the Uptime Institute will announce winners of
the first Green Enterprise IT Awards, honoring organizations that are
pioneering energy-efficiency improvements in their data center
operations.

The Uptime Institute is a leading research-based think-tank and
corporate advisory on the business and technology issues related to
critical computing environment reliability and energy efficiency. The
Symposium, which includes the participation of nearly 400 senior
executives from data center owning corporations, design and
engineering firms, as well as the leading IT developers and
manufacturers, will focus on establishing industry benchmarks and
standards for improving energy efficiency in data centers.

Co-sponsored by Deloitte Consulting, the Institute's 2008 Green
Enterprise IT Awards nominees are:

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* Energy Efficient IT Hardware Deployment
Sun Microsystems

* Facilities Site Physical Infrastructure (power and cooling) Overhead
UPS, AOL, Office Depot, Intel

* IT Hardware Asset Utilization
Interior Health Authority, NetApp, Bank of Montreal

* Green IT Beyond the Data Center
Hewlett Packard, Nationwide Mutual Insurance

* IT Strategy
Hewlett Packard, Nationwide Service Company, Hannaford Bros. Co.
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The winners will be announced on Tuesday, April 29, at 5:30 p.m.
at the Symposium, where the winning companies will present case
studies and be featured in a Podcast to be posted at
uptimeinstitute.org/podcasts.

Keynote speakers at the Symposium include:

* APC/MGE, Neil Rasmussen, Senior VP, Innovation for Critical
Power and Cooling

* Dell, Dr. Albert Esser, VP, Data Center Infrastructure

* Highmark, Mark O'Gara, VP, Infrastructure Management

* IBM, David Anderson, "Green Wizard"

* Intel, Henry Wong, Senior Staff Technologist

* Microsoft, Michael Manos, Chief, Data Centers

* Sun Microsystems, Mark Monroe, Director, Sustainable Computing

* Validus DC System, Rudy Kraus, Founder and CEO

* VMware, Mark Thiele, Director, Business Operations for
Engineering and R&D

* Yahoo, Christina Page, Director, Climate and Energy Strategy

The Uptime Institute is providing online access to live highlights
from Symposium 2008. Tuition per day to participate in the live Web
conference is $95. Tuition of $195 provides access to all available
Symposium Web conferences. For a list of available sessions and times,
please visit uptimeinstitute.org/webconferences.

Symposium sponsors include, alphabetically: Active Power, APC,
Aperture Technologies, Cassatt, Chatsworth Products, C&D Technologies,
CIO magazine, Computer Site Engineering, CSRware, Data Aire, The Data
Center Journal, Degree Controls, Deloitte Consulting, Eaton Powerware,
GreenBiz.com, Hitec Power Solutions, IBM, If & Then, Inc., Innovative
Research, Invest in Iceland Agency, Lumina, McKinsey & Company,
Microsoft, Mission Critical Magazine, Modius, Power Distribution,
Rackable Systems, Rittal, Russelectric, RTKL, S&C Electric, Server
Technology, SynapSense, Sun Microsystems, TAS Ltd., Tate Access
Floors, TechTarget.com, Upsite Technologies, Validus DC, Verari
Systems, Wright Line.

For more information on the Symposium, click here:
http://uptimeinstitute.org/symposium

To view a list of currently registered delegate participants,
click here: http://uptimeinstitute.org/content/view/100/67/

About the Uptime Institute:

The Uptime Institute (uptimeinstitute.org) is a leading
independent research, corporate advisory, knowledge exchange,
education and professional services provider serving the
owners/operators of enterprise data centers. Our primary area of
expertise, as the name implies, is the uptime availability,
reliability, and resiliency of enterprise computing within formal
critical computing environments, i.e. computer rooms, server farms and
ranches, and data centers. The Institute operates a private knowledge
network, the Site Uptime Network that conducts research, benchmarking,
knowledge-sharing, and best practices for its members who represent
100 of the largest data center owning/operating institutions in the
world. Our intellectual property base includes the de facto industry
standard for data center design known as the Tiers Classification
System and the Four Metrics for Determining a Green Data Center.

Antenna Group for Uptime Institute
Lonnie Shekhtman, 415-977-1917
Lonnie@antennagroup.com
or
Uptime Institute Symposium
Trevor Daul, Uptime Institute, 505-946-3440
tdaul@uptimeinstitute.org

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