CBRE | Romonet is selected as a finalist at DCS Awards 2018

CBRE | Romonet is selected as a finalist at DCS Awards 2018

CBRE | Romonet and its Big Data Predictive Analytics Platform was a finalist at the DCS Awards 2018 for Data Centre Efficiency Project of the Year.

The DCS Awards recognise the achievement of product designers, manufacturers, suppliers and providers operating in the data centre arena who have gone above and beyond to improve the industry.

This nomination recognised CBRE | Romonet's analytics platform and its ability to solve the financial, operational and environmental challenges that affect enterprises, data centre service providers, facility operators and those responsible for managing the highly sensitive IT assets businesses are dependent on. One of the main projects presented to the judging panel to illustrate CBRE | Romonet's abilities was the company’s work with Fujitsu UK & Ireland.

Fujitsu’s main objectives were to improve energy efficiency, maximise available capacity and deliver measurable business outcomes. By deploying CBRE | Romonet's solution Fujitsu was able to identify savings of over 9% of the site’s energy per year, improve the site’s PUE and improve the site’s overal operational performance.

Zahl Limbuwala, CEO of CBRE | Romonet, said, “We are extremely pleased that the judging panel has recognised the innovation we are driving in the industry. In the past years we’ve invested significant resources into developing our platform and transforming the data centre industry. As a result, in 2016-2017 we enabled our clients to save over £3m on utility costs without additional capital expenditure, reduce energy usage by 48,000 MWh and decrease CO2 emissions by over 11,550 tons.”

“The data centre market continues to evolve at speed and its leaders are increasingly aware of its impact on our environment and the best solutions for creating and designing highly efficient facilities.”

CBRE | Romonet's platform has won many awards in recent years, including the Critical Environment Future Thinking category at the DCS Awards 2016. The company has been recognised as an innovative company (under $100 million) in the data centre facility industry by IDC.

Winner of Infrastructure Innovation of the Year, UK IT Industry Awards

Winner of the Infrastructure Innovation of the Year, UK IT Industry Awards

The CBRE | Romonet team have won another prestigious award - Infrastructure Innovation of the Year at the UK IT Industry Awards 2017.

The award recognised CBRE | Romonet's ability to provide unrivalled insight through the use of modeling and predictive analytics, from initial design through to end of life. With CBRE | Romonet's help companies are making better informed investment decisions and increasing operational efficiency to new levels.

Its main competitors in this category were BT, Capgemini & Rolls Royce, Cradlepoint, DWP Digital & IBM, Geeks, Hyperoptic, Silver Peak, Sudlows and Tegile Systems.

Independently selected as one of IDC’s top three innovative companies under $100 million in the data center facility industry, CBRE | Romonet is constantly innovating to improve how organizations purchase, manage and monitor their data center infrastructure.

Danny Reeves, CEO of CBRE | Romonet, said, “The data center industry is evolving fast and CBRE | Romonet is always striving to develop cutting edge technologies and keep the pace with our customers’ needs, ensuring they have the most accurate model of their facility and operations, so they can make the best possible data driven decisions when investing, designing, building and operating their data center assets.

It’s great to see CBRE | Romonet's team being recognized for their hard work in this fast paced industry and we are delighted to be able to help our clients maximize their efficiency potential.”

CBRE | Romonet's Platform accurately models, simulates and predicts data center power and cooling efficiency, total cost of ownership (TCO), operational and financial performance, and use of natural resources, helping customers better control capital expenditure, manage operating expenses, independently assess the impact of technologies on the data center and the environment, therefore making better investment decisions.

CBRE | Romonet Wins Award: Improving the CSR Impact of Data Centers with Predictive Analytics

CBRE | Romonet Wins Award: Improving the CSR Impact of Data Centers with Predictive Analytics

Over 600 corporate executives, policymakers and green campaigners saw CBRE | Romonet win IT Project of the Year at the BusinessGreen Leaders Awards. The judges praised CBRE | Romonet and its customers for their progress in helping improve the corporate social responsibility (CSR) of global data centers.

“The outcomes of a positive CSR profile are many - tangible benefits to the environment, improved public image and competitive positioning, and when CBRE | Romonet's Platform is used, large scale cost efficiencies. Many companies have already invested in the latest analytics tools to increase business efficiency, and we are encouraged that many more are taking action in this key area,” said Zahl Limbuwala, CBRE | Romonet's CEO.

CBRE | Romonet offers the world’s only predictive analytics platform capable of modeling, simulating, analyzing and controlling operational and financial performance within the data center. Data centers are one of the most costly and potentially harmful business units within any large organization but now, as analytics applications have done in other areas of business, their financial and operational risks can be removed using CBRE | Romonet.

This award win accompanied CBRE | Romonet announcing it is launching new Machine Learning capabilities to further enhance the value of its solution. The speed at which business results are attainable was another deciding factor for the judges. As a recent case study highlighted, return on investment is achievable in several weeks.

Predictive Analytics is proving to be a key application for mitigating the risks associated with CSR and the data center – these include postponed capital investment, shareholder value being questioned, and reduced corporate profitability when customers choose competitor services on sustainability grounds.

An example is Apple’s $950million, 500-acre Irish data campus. The facilities are being debated due to power requirements, land use and the effect on local wildlife. CSR is a key consideration within each of these factors and businesses using CBRE | Romonet can demonstrate the positive action they are taking.

“We are working with international leaders across online retail, social media, banking and IT service providers, all of which recognize the influence CSR has on competitive positioning. More importantly, they know how to succeed in today’s environmentally-conscious economy where business processes and investments are under scrutiny,” concluded Limbuwala.

CBRE | Romonet Wins ‘Critical Environment Future Thinking’ Award at DCD US & Canada Awards 2016

CBRE | Romonet Wins 'Critical Environment Future Thinking' Award at the DatacenterDynamics US & Canada Awards 2016

CBRE | Romonet and its Big Data Predictive Analytics Platform has won the 'Critical Environment Future Thinking' Award at the DatacenterDynamics US & Canada Awards 2016.

The 'Critical Environment Future Thinking' award recognizes CBRE | Romonet's Analytics Platform's ability to solve the financial and operational challenges that affect enterprises, data center service providers, facility operators and those responsible for managing the highly sensitive IT environments businesses are dependent on.

Zahl Limbuwala, CEO of CBRE | Romonet, said, “We are extremely pleased that the judging panel has recognized the innovation we are driving in the industry. An increasing number of global banks, social media platforms, online retailers and other enterprises are using our Platform to bring accountability to their data centers. Cloud and colocation service providers are using CBRE | Romonet to increase their competitiveness and improve financial margins. This accomplishment is a strong endorsement for the positive changes our customers and team are delivering.”

CBRE | Romonet's success is the latest in a series of industry achievements for the company. CBRE | Romonet has already been named a finalist in four prestigious awards programmes this year, most recently for the Business Green Leaders Awards and CBRE | Romonet's new water analytics application.

CBRE | Romonet's Platform is the only solution to accurately model, simulate and predict data center power and cooling efficiency, total cost of ownership (TCO), operational and financial performance, and natural resource usage. The company recently launched a new campaign compelling the world's executives, enterprises and data center operators to take positive action against rising data center water consumption