by Shane Henson — June 8, 2011—The second Green IT Awards, recently hosted by Green IT magazine in London, showcased the companies and organizations that have made a significant contribution to improving the information technology industry’s environmental performance over the past 12 months.
This year, the awards introduced new categories to reflect changes in the industry, and also invited project applications to be considered by a panel of judges for some other new categories. Winners include:
- One to Watch Product Award: Verismic—PowerManager
- Hardware Product of the Year Award: Kyocera Mita (UK) Ltd—FS-C525ODN
- Environmental Project of the Year Under 100 Employees Award: Version One with Blenheim Palace
- Environmental Project of the Year Over 100 Employees Award: Raritan with eBay
- Public Sector Project of the Year Award: Dept. of Work and Pensions with Xerox—Sustainable Print Service
- IT Recycling Project of the Year Award: CDL with The Co-operative Travel
- Team of the Year Award: Rackspace—Hayes Office
- Cloud/Virtualisation Project of the Year Award: London Borough of Hillingdon with Fordway / Dell Compellent / VMware
- Environmental Design Award: VeryPC—Broadleaf
- Carbon Offsetting Scheme of the Year Award: Woodland Trust—Lock Up Your Carbon
- IT Operator of the Year Award: Interxion
- Environmental Accounting Product of the Year Award: Access—Access Dimensions
- Document Management Product of the Year Award: Canotec—Secure Print
- Ecommerce Innovation of the Year Award: Connexin—VoIP Recycled Phone
- Minister of Energy Award: CA—ecoSoftware 2
- Editor’s Choice Award: Nlyte Software
- Product of the Year Award: 1E—NightWatchman Server Edition
- Company of the Year: Fujitsu
- Hardware Product of the Year Award: Kyocera Mita (UK) Ltd—FS-C525ODN
The winners in each category were decided by a judging panel and the votes of Green IT magazine readers. For more information on the Green IT Awards, visit the awards’ Web site.
