Lincoln, UK, 6th December 2007 – Smartbunker, the UK’s first zero carbon data centre, today announced that it was declared winner of the Data Centre Dynamics pan-European Award for Innovation in an Outsourced Environment at an award ceremony which took place in London on 4th December, 2007. Smartbunker, which provides enterprise-class managed server hosting with minimum environmental impact, won over established data centre competition to take away this prestigious award.

Kelly Smith, managing director at Smartbunker, commented,

“It has been an extraordinary couple of years for Smartbunker. We recognised the market requirement for an outsourced data centre service that would not create the environmentally damaging consequences of traditional data centre design but without compromising on service and security. We designed Smartbunker to deliver just that and launched its services commercially earlier this year. Data Centre Dynamics has bought together a panel of eminent and independent data centre experts to judge this award and we would like to thank them for recognising what we have bought to the market for data centre services.”

The Data Centre Dynamics Award for Innovation in an Outsourced Environment is designed to underline the importance of the cluster of services that constitute the outsourcing sector. It rewards companies responsible for outsourcing services that have optimised the potential of this option through an understanding of market and business requirements, the ability to present the best business case for outsourcing and the development of services that meet the expectations that clients have of outsourcing services.

Smartbunker is located in an ex-NATO command centre, a bunker deep underneath the Lincolnshire countryside. The bunker provides excellent physical security and communications infrastructure and also reduces the data centre’s cooling requirements. IBM supplies Smartbunker’s power efficient server infrastructure. All electricity used within the data centre is provided by Ecotricity, the UK’s largest generator of zero carbon, renewable energy.

For more details regarding the award please visit: www.datacentredynamics.com
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