Recognising and rewarding best practice in data centre energy efficiency. This new award from BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT, provides data centres with an independent means of assessing and accrediting their facilities for energy efficiency. The award enables organisations to meet the needs of increasing carbon legislation, reduce energy costs and benchmark themselves as leaders in data centre energy efficiency.

Our mission as BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT, is to enable the information society. Providing the global IT industry with the knowledge and expertise it needs to create low carbon emissions and ensure energy efficiency is fundamental to our mission. Carbon legislation is increasing globally and energy efficiency has become a key concern for operators of data centres as well as their clients. We have launched CEEDA to enable organisations to demonstrate their adoption of energy efficiency best practice within their data centre facilities

 
The Award

CEEDA is designed to provide verifiable evidence that an organisation is not only claiming it follows (or plans to implement) best practices but that it has actually implemented them. The evidence provided is checked by an independent CEEDA certified Assessor. Successful organisations can display their Award and use the Award logo within their corporate marketing material. They are also eligible to be listed in the online Register of Energy Efficient Data Centres.

 
The benefits to your organisation

CEEDA has been specifically designed to help organisations that run its own data centre facility;

• Gain industry recognition and public acknowledgement for energy efficiency best practice
• Distinguish your organisation as an industry leader
• Meet the needs of increasing carbon legislation
• Harness major cost savings through energy efficiency
• Demonstrate to clients that your organisation is committed to energy efficiency
• Receive advice and recommendations for energy efficiency improvement

 
The assessment

The assessment covers the following key areas within the data centre facility:

• Data centre utilisation
• IT equipment and services
• Cooling
• Power equipment
• Data centre building
• Monitoring

Having played a major role in the development of the EU Code of Conduct for data centres, the Institute has used the Best Practice elements of the code as the foundation of the CEEDA assessment. Assessors will require evidence that practices in each data centre are implemented and will review activities onsite at a level of detail. The Assessor will produce a detailed report of their findings and make an Award recommendation to the Institute. The Institute will review the recommendation and, if appropriate, Award a Gold, Silver or Bronze level Award.

 
The organisation also receives a comprehensive report and detailed action plan for improvement which identifies the steps required to progress to the next Award level.