Iceotope beats global competition to win the Tech Trailblazers Sustainability Award

18^th December 2012 – Iceotope is proud to announce its success in the first ever Tech Trailblazers Awards, an accolade which boasts some of the world’s most innovative new tech start-ups. In winning the Sustainable IT Trailblazer category, the Sheffield-based business fought off stiff competition from all over the globe. Its category alone saw entrants from South Africa, Iceland and the USA, all vying for the prize. The award tops off a stellar year for the fledgling business and follows a string of industry award wins in 2012, including successes in the Elektra, Techworld and RealBusiness Future 50 Awards.

As well as a public vote, the winning companies were chosen by an independent judging panel in a process that saw each member invest millions of ‘virtual dollars’ into their chosen businesses. The awards covered nine distinct categories and separate IT sectors including mobile, virtualisation and security.

The award was given to Iceotope in recognition of its capability to address some of the most pressing environmental issues in IT, including the sharp rise of energy usage and related CO2 emissions as a result of industry growth, as well as the spiralling costs of running a data centre. Launched earlier this year, Iceotope’s innovative liquid cooling system can provide full-time free cooling for IT anywhere on the planet and also bears the ‘Made in Sheffield’ mark, an accolade given to organisations continuing the region's tradition of manufacturing the highest quality goods and products.

“We are absolutely delighted to be recognised in this manner – it caps off a brilliant 2012 but also reflects the great work our research and development teams have been doing for some time”, said Iceotope CEO, Neil Bennett. “We’d like to thank the fantastic institutions like 3M™, AMD, Intel and the University of Leeds that have backed us throughout, the brilliant support we achieved during the public vote, as well as the awards organisers and sponsors who put this all together. Seeing Iceotope listed amongst some of the most ground-breaking and successful new start-ups, from every corner of the globe, is absolutely brilliant and emphasises just how far we believe we can reach in the future - as well as how far we’ve already come

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DatacenterDynamics EMEA Awards 2012 Finalists

The most prestigious accolades in the data center industry will be presented at the 6th Annual DatacenterDynamics EMEA Awards on December 13th at the Lancaster London Hotel. 

Special non-shortlisted awards for Outstanding Contribution to the Industry and Business Leader of the Year will also be presented at the ceremony.

 George Rockett, chief strategy officer at DatacenterDynamics, said: The DatacenterDynamics EMEA Awards form part of the Global Awards Programme which recognises innovation and leadership across the data center industry. The judging process, conducted by industry experts from across the sector, will continue between now and the Gala ceremony on December 13th which will see this years people and projects join previous winners as the recognised leaders in the data center industry. Built up over the last six years the DatacenterDynamics Awards are the most sought after in the industry. The Global Awards Programme consists of separate awards which celebrate the people, companies and developments in markets including North America, LATAM, Brazil, China and South East Asia.

Asetek, Inc. for RackCDU Liquid Cooling System For Data Center Efficiency

Iceotope for The Iceotope Liquid Cooling Solution

Munters Ltd for DigiPlex A2A Indirect Evaporative Cooling Modular Data Centre Solution University of Troms for Design And Implementation Of A Data Center Based On Hot Water Cooling Cable & Wireless Worldwide C&W Worldwide - Urban Blueprint

Digital Realty for Optimised Chilled-Water Cooling Solution At Digital Chessington

Lloyds Banking Group for Horizon Datacentre Programme

Mafi Mushkila Limited for Rack Mounted Server Emulator Development

Cannon Technologies for Cannon T4 Modular Data Centre

Euclyde Data Centers for Neoclyde Data Centre

Mercedes-Benz for Mercedes-Benz UK Primary Data Centre

NHS Airedale, Bradford and Leeds for NHS Bradford, Airedale & Leeds High Density Data Centre

ARM Ltd for New High Performance Computing (HPC) Data Centre

Colt Technology Services for Colt - A New Generation Of Data Centres

GSI for GSI MiniCube Data Center Powered By eCube

Sudlows for The BelleVue Data Centre - Sudlows


Ark Continuity for Ark Continuity's Spring Park Data Centre

HP for HP Suttons, Reading BCRS Facility Phase II.

MEEZA for M-VAULT 3

SBERBANK of Russia for Sberbank Mega Datacenter

Kent County Council for Kent Connects Regional Data Centres

MITA for MITA-01 Corporate Data Centre - Government Of Malta

Nottinghamshire County Council for Nottinghamshire County Council Data Centre

Trinity College Dublin for Trinity College Green Data Centre

De Novo for De Novo DC

Interoute for Interoute Virtual Data Centre

Linxdatacenter for Cloud Linxdatacenter Facility In Warsaw

Vtesse for Arup Move To Vtesse Cirrus

Equinix for Equinix Renewable Heating Project

Hetzner Online AG for Hetzner Online Data Center Parks

TelecityGroup for TelecityGroups AMS5 Data Centre Verne Global for Verne Globals Dual-Sourced,
Renewable Powered Datacentre


Green Datacenter AG for greenDatacenter Zurich West

Interxion for Seawater Cooling Project

LAMDA Hellix Data Centers SA for LAMDA Hellix Mission Critical Facility


TIZZON B.V. for PCM Control

Interoute for Interoute Virtual Data Centre Cloud Migration

Logica (now part of CGI) for Logica - Data Centre Consolidation Programme

Sleek Networks Ltd for Sleek Cloud Alignment


University of St Andrews for ICT Transformation At The University Of St Andrews

Asteros for The Oil Company "Bashneft" Corporate Data Center

Cannon Technologies for Cannon T4 Modular Data Centre

FORTRUST for FORTRUST IO Modular Data Centers

Minkels for Swiss Cold War Bunker Project

Arup: Chris Tolmie

IBM France: Emmanuel Tong-Viet

Red Engineering Design Ltd: Alex Nock

Romonet: Ehsaan Farsimadan

Colt Technology Services: Colt/Verne Global Delivery Team

Lloyds Banking Group: Horizon Prorgramme Team


MITA: MITA-01 Data Centre Migration Project - MALTA

UKFast: Migration Team

The DatacenterDynamics EMEA Awards headline sponsor is infinity. DatacenterDynamics is grateful to infinity and to all the category sponsors for their continued support.

A limited number of tickets remain. To attend the event or for more information about the awards contact
paul.mangles@datacenterdynamics.com

http://www.datacenterdynamics.com/focus/archive/2012/11/datacenterdynamics-emea-awards-2012-

Tech Trailblazers Awards Finalists Announced

Which startups have the most promising technologies? Vote for your favorites now.
The first-annual Tech Trailblazers Awards for enterprise information technology startups today announced
shortlisted finalists across the nine categories: Big Data, Cloud, Emerging Markets, Infosecurity, Mobile, Networking, Storage, Sustainable IT and Virtualization.
The first outing of the awards received a considerable groundswell of high quality entrants making the judging
quite a challenge.
The winners of the Tech Trailblazers Awards 2012 will be determined by the voting public and the judging panel. Which startups have the most promising technologies? Discover the finalists and vote for your favorites now from the Tech Trailblazers website just click on the Vote Now tab.

Finalists in the Tech Trailblazers Awards 2012

Big Data
-DataSift (@DataSift), www.datasift.com
-GoodData (@GoodData), www.gooddata.com
-GridStore (@GridStore), www.gridstore.com
-MapR (@MapR), www.mapr.com
-Verdigris Tech (@Verdigristech), www.verdigristech.com

Cloud
-Backupify (@Backupify), www.backupify.com
-CloudLock (@CloudLock), www.cloudlock.com
-SaaSID (@SaaSID), www.saasid.com
-Tiatros (@Tiatros), www.tiatros.com
-Virtustream (@Virtustream), www.virtustream.com
-Zadara Storage (@ZadaraStorage), www.zadarastorage.com

Emerging Markets
-ABCD Experts (@ABCDexperts), www.abcdexperts.com

-Chalet Tech (@ChaletTech), www.chalettech.com
-CloudByte (@CloudByteInc), www.cloudbyte.com
-SustainableIT (Twitter: @sustainableIT), www.sustainableit.co.za
-Infotectsecurity, www.infotectsecurity.com

Mobile
-Genwi (@Genwi), www.genwi.com
-GoCanvas (@GoCanvas), www.gocanvas.com
-ImageVisionLabs (@ImageVisionLabs), www.imagevision.com/
-Mezeo (@Mezeo), www.mezeo.com
-Moasis (@MoasisGlobal), www.moasisglobal.com

Networking
-Aryaka (@AryakaNetworks), www.aryaka.com
-Embrane (@Embrane), www.embrane.com
-Infineta (@Infineta), www.infineta.com

Security
-Chalet Tech (@ChaletTech), www.chalettech.com
-CipherCloud (@CipherCloud), www.ciphercloud.com
-Dome9 (@Dome9), www.dome9.com
-SaaSID (@SaaSID), www.saasid.com
-Vaultive (@Vaultive), www.vaultive.com
-Ventisys (@Ventisys), www.ventisys.com

Storage
-Actifio (@Actifio), www.actifio.com

-CTERA (@CTERA), www.ctera.com
-SMART Storage Systems (@SMARTSSD), www.smartstoragesys.com
-SolidFire (@SolidFire), www.solidfire.com
-Virtual Instruments (@Virtual_Inst), www.virtualinstruments.com

Sustainable IT
-Building Sustainability (@BSLEnergyTeam), www.buildingsustainability.net
-GreenQloud (@GreenQloud), www.greenqloud.com
-Iceotope (@Iceotope), www.iceotope.com
-Nutanix (@Nutanix), www.nutanix.com
-SustainableIT (@SustainableIT), www.sustainableit.co.za

Virtualization
-GreenBytes (@GetGreenBytes), www.getgreenbytes.com
-Nutanix (@Nutanix), www.nutanix.com
-Virtual Instruments (@Virtual_Inst), www.virtualinstruments.com
-VMTurbo (@VMTurbo), www.vmturbo.com
-Zerto (@ZertoCorp), www.zerto.com

Rose Ross, founder of the Tech Trailblazers Awards, commented, “The Tech Trailblazers Awards were designed to put a spotlight on the best-of-the-best of new technology startups from around the world. Our shortlists highlight some of the hidden gems of the global enterprise information technology industry, from Icelandto Israel, from Singapore to the Silicon Valley.” Ross added, “Our global community of judges had some hard work to do in selecting the shortlists from an impressive pool of contenders, but they did a great job. The 41 finalists in the Tech Trailblazers Awards represent some rising stars in the technology world-pioneers who are helping invent the systems that make business faster, more efficient, more secure, more environmentally friendly and, ultimately, more connected.”

All voters will be entered into a draw where winners will be selected at random to receive one of 5 exclusive Tech Trailblazers Awards t-shirts or one of 5 year subscriptions to Prezi.

http://www.thedatachain.com/news/2012/11/tech_trailblazers_awards_finalists_announced

Wonga Future 50: Iceotope

Proprietary technology that solves a clear problem in a mega, growing industry. This set of circumstances mark out a real market-busting entrepreneurial play.


Steve Jobs had a weird obsession: computer fans. The damn things whirr, eat electricity and get covered in cobwebs. He eliminated fans in Apple’s laptops whenever he could.

The datacentre industry has the same problem. The servers get seriously hot, and the current approach is to add more and more fans. They cost a ton of money, regularly need servicing, and powering them destroys any claim to being green.

The answer is Iceotope’s liquid cooling.

Developed with support from key partners including 3M and the University of Leeds, the Sheffield-based firm has a patented liquid cooling system which is far cheaper, far greener, and far more quiet than any fan configuration.

Is it a big deal?

Of course it is. The datacentre industry’s CO2 emissions are set to be on par with that of the airline industry within a few years' time and energy consumption continues to grow at 19 per cent per annum. Furthermore, the UK is believed to have the greatest concentration of datacentres on the planet at over seven million sq ft, consuming more than 6.4 GW of power per year (equivalent to six million households).

Founded in 2012, Iceotope is designed, engineered and manufactured in Great Britain.

Iceotope Mentioned as Top 50 Hottest Early Stage Startups in the World

Last week's Dublin Web Summit was attended by 4,000 people. Attendees watched two days of speeches and exhibits by leaders in the technology industry. In addition, 250 startup companies set up in the conference halls, eager to share information, seek investors, and attract potential customers. 

Over 1,000 companies from 36 countries applied for the Electric Ireland Spark of Genius Award. Iceotope was selected as one of the top 50 award finalists, selected based on the combination of innovation with productivity to generate excitement and influence in a competitive environment.

A sustainable cooling solution for servers

A unique cooling system using 3M™ Novec™ Engineered Fluids has been launched to provide a low cost, low energy solution to prevent servers from over-heating.

Designed, engineered and manufactured by Sheffield-based Iceotope Research and Development Ltd in conjunction with 3M and the University of Leeds, the integrated server platform reduces the energy used to cool IT equipment by 97 per cent as it doesn’t need chillers and air conditioning units.
Data centres currently account for around 5 per cent of the UK’s energy consumption and it costs just as much to cool servers using air conditioning systems as it does to run them.

“Researchers predict that the world’s data centres will consume 19 per cent more energy in the next 12 months than they have in the past year,” said Peter Hopton, founder and chief technical officer of Iceotope. “In order to try to combat this increase in power consumption, we need to start looking at technology that will help not only reduce the environmental footprint, but also help reduce the costs associated with power and cooling in data centres and other high-performing computing environments.

“Through our research with the University of Leeds and 3M, we’re excited about the impact our solution will have on data centre design and location.”

With Iceotope’s innovative liquid system, servers are encapsulated in a sealed unit with 3M™ Novec™ fluids acting as an inert coolant. This eliminates the need for air conditioning and harvests the heat from 20 kilowatts of IT equipment using just 80 watts of power. The harvested heat can then be reused or passively cooled.

As the system is silent and fully sealed with the electronics protected from the environment, the need to locate servers in a ‘clean building’ away from people is reduced. This creates the added benefit of providing more flexibility for the location of servers and has the potential to reduce the costs associated with purpose-built clean data rooms.

Said Keith Deakin, principal design engineer for Iceotope Research and Development: “The system has been designed to provide a sustainable end-to-end liquid cooling system for whole data centres. The motherboard is encapsulated in a sealed module containing a Novec fluid and this is used to harvest the heat from every component on the board. The heat is then transferred into a separate sealed water channel within the cabinet.

“Gravity, combined with a simple pump, moves the water around the circuits in the cabinet and the heat is then transferred through heat exchangers connected back to the building’s water supply.
“Our ethos is to keep the servers at their optimum working temperature by using as little energy as possible.”

The 3M™ Novec™ Engineered Fluid was chosen by Iceotope as it is a high-performing inert chemical coolant with environmental benefits.

Said Keith: “As well as being very good at convecting heat away from the heat-generating components on the motherboard, Novec fluid’s environmental impact is as low as we can find for such a coolant. It is thermally stable, non-ozone depleting and has a very low global warming potential.”

3M sales manager, Adrian Hyner, and technical sales specialist for 3M’s Electronics Markets Materials division, Mark Nursall, have worked closely with Iceotope on the development of the solution since the company was set up as an offshoot of a computer firm three years ago.

Said Mark: “Novec fluids have excellent heat-transfer properties compared to other dielectric fluids and is recyclable, offering an excellent balance between performance, safety and the environment.“Using a non-flammable coolant rather than a potentially flammable solution improves safety as well as making a dramatic overall reduction in electricity costs.

“The system also incorporates the latest award-winning high performance 3M™ Twin Axial Cables to transmit high speed data signals from the module to the back panel. In addition, 3M™ Scotchcast™ resin has been used to seal the entry point to the module. The introduction of these additional 3M technologies further enhanced the cost and performance benefits of the Iceotope platform solution.”

The Iceotope system been tested at a Swiss bank and is also being tested in operation at leading research universities in the UK and will be available for delivery towards the end of the year.

http://solutions.3m.co.uk/wps/portal/3M/en_GB/4Sight/home/-/topstories/5/?WT.svl=f1top5

Elektra Awards Finalists

A panel of independent judges has made its decisions as part of the Elektra European Electronics Industry Awards 2012, and the shortlisted finalists in each of the award categories are published below.

The winners will be announced at an Elektra Awards Dinner and Christmas Party which takes place on Wednesday 12th December at the Park Plaza, Westminster Bridge in London.

The established annual highpoint of the electronics industry, the Elektra Awards gives the industry the opportunity to recognise the achievements of individuals and companies across Europe. They are designed to promote best practice in key areas including, innovation, sales growth and employee motivation.

Awards shortlists

Design Team of the Year
(Sponsored by CadSoft Computer)
ByteSnap Design - Design of vehicle charging posts for London 2012
eosemi - Design of an all-CMOS replacement for crystal oscillators
TT electronics – Design a medical implant for treating high blood pressure
 
Distributor of the Year
(Sponsored by IC Resources)
Anglia Components
Caltest Instruments
Farnell element14
Mouser Electronics
RS Components
TTI

Green Electronics Award
(Sponsored by National Instruments)
ebm-papst Mulfingen - CO2 emissions reduction at European facilities
Ericsson Power Modules – Reduction in life-cycle impact of products in operation
Farnell element14 - Packaging recycling project including free customer collection
TT electronics - Sensor product uses 42% less in plastic packaging

Manufacturer Export Award
(Sponsored by Agilent Technologies)
Marl International
United EMS
Zytronic

New Company of the Year
(Sponsored by International Rectifier)
Gnodal
Iceotope
Triggertrap

Educational Support Award
(Sponsored by Pinnacle Marketing Communications)
Aeroflex - £2.5m investment in wireless labs at Lancaster University and University College London
Analog Devices - University programme provides “hands-on learning”
Harwin - University programme providing technical, sponsorship and free products
Parallel Systems - Provides free Cadence OrCAD software to UK students
Rohde & Schwarz - €7.5m in financial assistance given to European universities
Silica - A competition prize of £3,000 for three UK university students

Design Tools and development software Award
ByteSnap Design - SnapUI lightweight development framework
Cadence Design Systems – Encounter analysis system for 3D ICs
CadSoft Computer - CAD tool with ASCII XML data structure
Mentor Graphics - RealTimeCalibre tool provides sign-off DFM feedback
Synopsys - Out-of-the-box support for ARM big.LITTLE processing designs
Xilinx – Vivado FPGA design tool supports C++ to HDL

Embedded System Product of the Year
Altera - 28nm system-on-chip FPGA
Freescale Semiconductor - Kinetis L series ARM Cortex-M0+ microcontroller
Intersil - Pico-qHD low cost pico projector system
Maxim Integrated Products - Smart meter platform with integrated security
RFEL - Fast Fourier transform FPGA core
Silicon Laboratories - Precision32 crystal-less USB controller

Passive & Electromechanical Product of Year
(Sponsored by Arrow)
AVX - 75V single-anode tantalum polymer capacitor
Harting - Han-Fast Lock high current PCB connector
Murata - Low ESR, electrical double layer capacitor
Melexis – Triaxis Hall effect magnetic sensor
Omron Electronic Components – G8P relay with large contact gap for high voltages
Syfer Technology - Multilayer chip capacitors with protective coating

Power System Product of the Year
(Sponsored by Harting Technology Group)
Amantys - Power Drive gate driver module
Cree - High efficiency 50A silicon carbide devices
Linear Technology - µModule isolated DC-DC converter with transformer
N2Power – Small 260W AC-DC power supply
Powervation - PV3101 single phase digital DC/DC controller
SemiSouth Laboratories - 650V silicon carbide JFET

Renewable Energy Design Award
(Sponsored by MSC Gleichmann UK)
Analog Devices - ADP1046 power controller
Diverse Energy - fuel cell technology
Heliatek – Organic photovoltaic material
Zeta Specialist Lighting - Solar powered paddle for lighting road signs

Semiconductor Product of the Year - Analogue
(Sponsored by Mouser Electronics)
ams - AS3935 Franklin lightning sensor IC
Linear Technology – LTC4366 overvoltage protection controller for 9-500V
Integrated Device Technology – IDT 90E46 single phase power metering SoC International Rectifier - PowIRstage integrated buck gate driver, mosfets and Schottky diode
Maxim Integrated Products – MAX44007 digital ambient light sensor
Microsemi - Low power body area network IC

Semiconductor Product of the Year - Digital
(Sponsored by Rohde & Schwarz)
Altera - Combining FPGA with optical transceiver modules in a single package
Freescale - Vybrid microcontroller combines ARM Cortex-A5 and Cortex-M4 cores
Lattice Semiconductor - iCE40 low power mobileFPGAs
LSI - SandForce SSD flash storage processor
Texas Instruments – Wolverine MSP430 microcontroller
Xilinx - Virtex-7 FPGAs with stacked silicon interconnect technology

Solid-State Lighting Application Award
(Sponsored by Anglia)
Arrow Electronics - LEDagon reference design combines LEDs with thermal management and control
Cree - XSP series high efficiency LED street light
LED Engin - ViviLux family of high-efficiency LED emitters
OMC - Spectralux Light Engines for all-in-one LED lighting design
Oxley Developments - LED aircraft landing light suitable to replace halogen technology
Plessey Semiconductors – Magic series high brightness LEDs on a gallium nitride-on-silicon substrate


Test Product of the Year
Agilent Technologies - Infiniium 90000Q 63GHz oscilloscope
JTAG Technologies - AutoBuzz automated boundary-scan software
LeCroy - LabMaster 10Zi 65GHz oscilloscope
Newton’s 4th - PPA1500 power analyser
National Instruments - PXIe-5644R RF vector signal transceiver, software-designed instrument
Rohde & Schwarz - ZNB network analyser
Yokogawa - Software package for the testing standby power

Other special awards
Rising Star New Engineer of the Year(Sponsored by Farnell element14)
University Department of the Year
(Sponsored by RS Components)
New Product - Product Innovation Award (Sponsored by Avnet Electronics Marketing EMEA)
Company of the Year
Lifetime Achievement Award

http://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/03/10/2012/54687/elektra-awards-finalists.htm