Awards

The success of The Green Grid is dependent on the dedication and active contributions of members. To recognize those individuals who have made significant contributions in the Committees, Work Groups, Sub Work Groups, and Task Forces, the Board established The Green Grid Key Contributor Award. The contributions may be in various forms: incremental work over an extended period of time or a single contribution of obvious merit. The award is limited to active participants in the Committees, Work groups and Task Forces from member companies. To nominate a fellow member, please download the application and submit it to TGG Administration.

Recent Recipients

Pam Lembke, IBM

Pam Lembke is a product compliance engineer at IBM in the Systems and Technology Group. She is part of a team responsible for product environmental compliance and stewardship for server and storage products. She also provides support for server installation planning and energy estimator tools. Prior to IBM, Pam worked in the automotive industry on material application development.

Pam has been instrumental in leading the Power Group – first as a Task Force leader, and more recently as a Sub Work Group Chair. This group has been one of the most productive groups in the Technical Committee, with many of the deliverables being hallmark content for the promotion of energy efficient power management in the data center.

Dan Azevedo, Symantec

Dan Azevedo is an IT Director of Data Center Architecture, Strategy and Innovation for Symantec. He is responsible for the data center program including architecture, engineering, implementation and operations globally. Dan currently supports 20 locations comprised of Collocation, Managed Service Provider, and in-house data centers and is also responsible for the Green IT Program.

Dan was chosen for the Key Contributor Award for his instrumental work within The Green Grid in maintaining consistent output from the Metrics and Measurement Work Group. In the role of Co-Chair, and later Chair, he took initiative and ownership and became the engine behind the group. Dan’s leadership in the work on the harmonization of metrics has been central in establishing The Green Grid in a position of global leadership. Dan can always be counted on to complete and initiate deliverables and attend any event at which his expertise is needed.

Henry Wong, Intel

Henry ML Wong is a senior staff platform technologist at Intel Corporation, enabling and evangelizing energy efficient power and thermal technologies. Mr. Wong is a 25+ year Intel veteran, with over 16 years of industry experience in digital and mixed signal processor development and over 9 years enabling power, thermal, and server platform technologies.

Henry’s work within The Green Grid has been instrumental in building TGG’s credibility with many of The Green Grid's government and national lab stakeholders. Notably, he is being recognized for driving and providing guidance on numerous TGG responses to ENERGY STAR specifications, being a frequent go-between on discussions between LBNL and TGG, and assisting with the promotion of TGG metrics worldwide. Henry has also been a constant participant in the DC&A Work Group since its inception in 2007, championed a number of deliverables, while participating in many others, and assisted as Active Vice-Chair of the Technical Committee.

Victor Smith, Dell

With 25+ years experience in the computer industry, Vic Smith is a Senior Technologist with the Strategic Technology Group at Dell Inc. EMEA headquarters based in the UK. Dell Technologists provide industry & technical knowledge, best practices, guidance and pre-sales support throughout EMEA. With Dell since 1997, Vic is responsible for strategy relating to Datacentre matters including Energy Efficiency & Environmental solutions (Green IT), Virtualization and Management Solutions for EMEA.

Vic was selected for this award based on his leadership as the Chair of the EMEA Technical Work Group and the time and effort he devotes to further The Green Grid’s mission, to support the needs of EMEA members, and to create content for world-wide consumption. Vic is being recognized for his diligent leadership in the effort to help plan the EMEA Technical Forums and organize successful attendance levels of members and non-members. At three of the four forums, he was the primary presenter enlightening the audiences about what The Green Grid has recently delivered and exhorting members to become involved in TGG works in progress. Vic was also the editor on a white paper the EMEA TWG recently delivered on the effects of carbon trading legislation that educates members on what is soon, very likely to be, a wide-spread global business reality.

Rey Rodriguez, IBM

Rey is a Senior Managing Consultant in IBM's Systems & Technology Group Lab Services and Certified Master IT Specialist by The Open Group. He specializes in data center transformation and strategy and planning. With 25 years of system management and system engineering experience and production experience in manufacturing, food, and drug companies, Rey is a valuable asset to The Green Grid.

Rey is a vital member of the Data Collection and Analysis Work Group and has played a key role in the successful completion of number of projects since engaging with The Green Grid. Most notably, Rey has diligently led the effort to provide The Green Grid’s input on the IT section of the DOE's Data Center Energy Profiler (DC Pro) tool. Members of The Green Grid will be able to use the information to plan for their evaluation, adoption and use of the DC Pro tool. In recognition of his leadership in this project and his ongoing commitment to The Green Grid and advancing energy efficiency, the Board of Directors decided to make Rey the first recipient of the newly established The Green Grid Contributor Award.

 

The Green Grid is a finalist for a Green IT award in the “Editor’s Choice” category

The Green IT Awards are a chance for the readers of Green IT Magazine to reward the outstanding environmental products, suppliers and projects of 2009, as well as highlight companies and teams that have made a significant contribution to improving the IT industry’s environmental performance. The Green Grid is the only non-vendor that has been nominated for an Editor’s Choice award at the Green IT Awards 2010. 

“ Improved DataCentre Efficiency Award” sponsored by The Green Grid at Datacenter Dynamics Datacentre Leaders Awards 2009

This Award seeks to recognise the journey that individual organisations have undergone in order to bring existing facilities up to scratch through the process of measurement, benchmarking, analysis, recommendation and implementation. Innovation may lie in the development of a measurement model that meets accurately the particular facility needs, the identification of opportunities and/or the introduction of technologies, management techniques and strategies to capitalise on such opportunities. This award was given to Morgan Stanley for their HDC efficiency program. 

The Green Grid endorses “Best European Green Initiative Award" at Data Centre Europe 2010

The award for Best European Green Initiative is awarded for innovation in environmental efficiency in the   data centre. The award recognizes and acknowledges true innovation that enables your data centre to directly reduce its environmental impact and to improve efficiency. An initiative that deserves the award may be in design, operation or a combination of both and should be measurable and demonstrable such that it can be held up as an example to peers and colleagues from within the industry.