The fourth Green IT Awards ceremony took place on May 9th at the Grand Connaught Rooms in London.

Showcasing and rewarding the technology, tools and solutions as well as the companies and organisations that have made a significant contribution to improving the IT industry's environmental performance over the past 12 months, the Green IT Awards have also become the event where the industry gets together to network, exchange thoughts and ideas, and dare we say it, have a little bit of fun as well!

Over 140 supporting guests gathered to see the outcome of the readers on line voting and judging panel’s deliberations.

The foundations for a great evening were laid with some fantastic support from our sponsors for this year, BCS The Chartered Institute for IT, Iomart Hosting and ReadSoft. Our huge thanks go to them for their support.

The evening started with a drinks reception which allowed everyone to catch up with old friends and start to make new ones. Following a short speech from Richard French from BCS The Chartered Institute for IT and a superb 3 course dinner, we were entertained by Stephen Grant, star of many, TV and radio shows. Following Stephen we were delighted to welcome Sarah Fraser from Rainforest Concern who gave us the background on the winner’s awards for 2013, which were the sponsorship of 1 acre of rainforest in The Choco Andean Rainforest Project in northwest Equador, so helping to preserve the bio-diversity found in the region. The 2013 awards ceremony then commenced and the results of the voting and judges deliberations are set out below. Our congratulations to you all.

The 2013 Green IT Awards Winners

One to Watch Company

Winner: Nimbus Data Systems

Runner Up: Cannon Technologies Ltd

One to Watch Product

Winner: Boston – Viridis

Runner Up: Nimbus Data Systems

Environmental Project of the Year in the Public Sector

Winner: Intuitive Business Intelligence with Harper Adams University for Intuitive Dashboards

Runner Up: Esteem with The Scottish Borders Council for The Scottish Boarders Council IT System

Environmental Project of the Year in the Private Sector Under 100 Employee

Winner: Vesk with The British Refugee Council for Virtual Desktops

Runner Up: Sudlows with the BelleVue Data Centre

Environmental Project of the Year in the Private Sector Over 100 Employee

Winner: V1 with Nichols PLC – Document Management Green Meter

Runner Up: Mahindra Satyam – Car Pool Portal

Recycling Project of the Year

Winner: Computer Aid for 200,000+ Recycled PC's to Africa

Runner Up: Data City Exchange for Evo-POD

Sustainable Design Project of the Year

Winner: Green Mountain for The Green Mountain Data Centre

Runner Up: Infosys – The Internet of Things Centre of Excellence

Carbon Project of the Year

Winner: Raritan with Cisco for Intelligent PDU / LabEnergy Management Software

Runner Up: Samsung Electronics for Carbon footprinting the Galaxy Note and S2

Cloud/Virtualisation Project of the Year

Winner: Fordway with the BAM Nuttall/Ferrovial/Kier (BFK) Joint Venture for Cloud Infrastructure on the Crossrail Project

Runner Up: Linklaters – Energy Smart IT – Project Sunset/Project Virtualisation

Team of the Year

Winner: Cannon Technologies Ltd for The Cannon T4 Modular Data Centre Team

Runner Up: Infosys Ltd for The Internet of Things Centre of Excellence

IT Operator of the Year

Winner: Pulsant

Runner Up: Interxion

Hardware Product of the Year

Winner: KYOCERA Document Solutions Ltd - - FS-1220MFP

Runner Up: Dell – PowerEdge R720 Fresh Air Cooling

Manufacturer of the Year

Winner: Dell

Runner Up: Brand Rex

Cooling Solution of the Year

Winner: Iceotope - Iceotope's next-generation liquid cooling solution

Runner Up: Interxion – SeaWater Cooling

Virtualisation Product of the Year

Winner: EMC – VNX Series

Runner Up: VMware - vSphere

Energy Efficiency Solution of the Year

Winner: 1E – 1E NightWatchman Enterprise

Runner Up: Energy Software Solutions – ESSaver PUE

Editors Choice

Winner: Connexin – VOIP Systems

Green IT Magazine Product of the Year

Winner: Raritan – EMX Environmental Rack Controller and Sensors

Runner Up: CA Technologies – CA DCIM

Green IT Magazine Company of the Year

Winner: Interxion

Runner Up: Infosys