2.29.2008 - 06:00am ET

(CSRwire) SANTA FE - February 29, 2008 - The Uptime Institute, in partnership with Deloitte Consulting LLP, is proud to introduce an exciting and valuable addition to Symposium 2008: Green Enterprise Computing—the Uptime Institute Green Enterprise IT Awards program.

Through its white papers, Symposia, Charrette, and Seminars, the Institute has consistently demonstrated that increasing the energy efficiency (and reducing the carbon footprint) of enterprise data centers is crucial to continued data center availability, reliability, and
profitability. The Uptime Institute Awards program will continue this emphasis by publicly recognizing the critical contributions of new technology and management practices that increase the energy efficiency, productivity, and availability of enterprise computing. And, even more significant, it will make widely accessible the "how-to" implementation
knowledge, a lack of which currently prevents many organizations from adopting new energy-saving technology.

Deloitte Consulting's participation makes it possible to offer the 2008 Uptime Institute Green Enterprise IT Awards program free of charge and there is now no fee to apply. The awards program is open to all organizations, public and private, with internally controlled and managed enterprise data centers located anywhere globally.* The Uptime Institute
Awards are intended to create top-to-bottom institutional awareness that IT can save significant amounts of energy which directly enhances bottom-line profitability while significantly reducing overall corporate carbon footprint.

An integral part of the Institute's annual awards program will be the sharing of both the successes and the lessons learned along the way. By sharing such hard won experience, the Institute hopes to facilitate others in quickly harvesting savings that will enable the uptime
industry to cap or reverse the current inexorable rise in computational energy consumption.

Applications and further program information are available on the Uptime Institute's website at uptimeinstitute.org. The application deadline is March 15, 2008. If you have any questions regarding the program, please contact Lora Tomita at ltomita@uptimeinstitute.org or 505.577.1054. To learn more about the Uptime Institute Green Enterprise IT Awards program, please visit: uptimeinstitute.org/green

About Symposium 2008

Uptime Institute Symposium 2008: Green Enterprise Computing is the only all data center stakeholder gathering focused exclusively on greenness and the economics, corporate policy, governance, management strategy and practices, and IT and Facilities technologies of enterprise computing and data center energy efficiency to save global organizations hundred of millions of dollars over a ten year period. To learn more about Symposium 2008, please visit: uptimeinstitute.org/symposium.

About the Uptime Institute

Since 1993, the Uptime Institute, Inc. has been a respected provider of educational and consulting services for Facilities and Information Technology organizations interested in maximizing data center uptime and energy efficiencies. The Institute has pioneered numerous innovations which serve as industry standards today, including the Tier Classifications which rate data center availability.

The Institute's Site Uptime Network is at the center of its offerings. The Network's 100 global members represent mostly Fortune 100 sized companies for whom site infrastructure availability is a serious concern. The Institute facilitates collective and interactive learning
among Network members and provides conferences, site tours, benchmarking, best practices, and abnormal incident collection and analysis.

For the industry as a whole, the Institute publishes white papers, offers a Seminar Series, and hosts a Symposium and data center design Charrette on critical uptime and energy efficiency-related topics. The Institute also conducts sponsored research and product certifications for industry manufacturers. For users, the Institute certifies data center Tier
levels and site resiliency.

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*The Green IT Awards program is not open to organizations of Cuba, Iran, Syria, North Korea, Sudan, Myanmar (Burma), or to other individuals restricted by U.S. export controls and sanctions, and is void in any other nation, state, or province where prohibited or restricted by U.S. or local law. Employees, interns, contractors, and official office-holders of the Institute and its sister organizations in the Brill Family of Companies are ineligible to participate in the Contest.

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