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Manufacturer's surprise award
THE SHEFFIELD-BASED "Green PC" manufacturer, VeryPC, has won a special award for its outstanding contribution to sustainable IT.
The Parkwood Road Business Park firm was singled out for the special "SustainIT" award at the UK Centre for Economic and Environmental Development's National eWell-Being Awards after winning the Greening Data Centres Award and being highly commended in the Environmental Innovation Award, which it won last year.
The existence of the SustainIT award had been kept a secret by organisers, so the announcement came as a complete surprise to VeryPC and others attending the ceremony.
"We're quite amazed to be singled out by SustainIT for this accolade," said VeryPC's managing director, Peter Hopton.
"It's honour enough to be nominated, and even more so to win our category, but this is something else entirely. I'm incredibly proud of the work all the staff at VeryPC are doing, and am sure that this kind of recognition will only spur us all on to providing even better energy efficient GreenPCs and GreenServers for our customers.
"Along with tonight's other winners and nominees, we've made a start in improving things, but there's still a lot of work for the green IT business community to do."
VeryPC won the Greening Data Centres category of The National eWell-Being Awards 2009 for its Free GreenServer Initiative.
Under the initiative, the firm says it will replace a server from major manufacturers with one of its environmentally friendly servers in return for a monthly payment based on the energy savings the company makes thanks to the swap.
VeryPC's multicore servers can do the work of a number of single core servers, allowing customers to reduce the total number of computers they are using and VeryPC says the energy savings created by its servers will cover the capital cost of the equipment within three to five year.
VeryPC creates some of the world's most energy efficient desktop computers and enterprise level servers by carefully selecting the materials and components it uses, without compromising the high performance required by today's applications.
The firm's GreenPCs and GreenServers can be found in schools, universities, homes, businesses and other organisations across the UK and worldwide.
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