In 2014, the “Uptime Institute Brill Awards” was introduced as an expansion of the successful “Green Enterprise IT Awards” (GEIT). The “GEIT Awards” program was conceived in 2008 by Ken Brill, the Uptime Institute’s founder, to recognize and promote IT efficiency in the Data Centre industry.

Named in his honor, the “Brill Awards” program shares a similar mission: honoring significant innovation in IT and Data Centre energy efficiency, and sharing this knowledge for the benefit of the whole industry.

Uptime Institute grants “Brill Awards for Efficient IT” to companies that significantly improve energy productivity and resource used in IT. The program recognizes efficiency in the broadest sense of the word: efficiency of capital deployment, technology, design, operations and overall management.

The Brill Awards are awarded by a panel of more than 90 distinguished industry professionals who reward IT efficiency in 5 categories, across 4 global regions: North America, EMEA, Latin America and APAC.

The jury, in charge of assessing the unidentified application forms, rewarded EBRC as winner of the “Data Center Facilities category” for the EMEA region. The jury praised “the EBRC projects and processes that demonstrate significant resource efficiency, through application of best practices and innovation, but also the EBRC Data Centre Facilities teams who successfully apply best practices and identify new opportunities for management efficiency”.

“This distinction is crucial for the international visibility we want to give to our offering, a one- stop-shop for Trusted IT Services, unique in Europe. We would like to thank our national and international Clients. They allow us to become who we are, to promote our “Made in Luxembourg” expertise and to build a strong Digital Centre with high added value”, says Bruno Fery, EBRC Head of Data Centre services.