Zen Internet awarded EU Code of Conduct for Data Centres Award 2014

Zen Internet Managing Director Richard Tang

Zen Internet has been awarded the European Commission’s EU Code of Conduct for Data Centres Award 2014.

The award  is in recognition of the efficiency improvements made to Zen’s data centre at its North West headquarters.

All four of Zen’s directly owned and managed data centres have Participant status in the EU Code of Conduct. The data centres provide a cost-effective way of securely hosting customers’ mission critical IT infrastructure, together with providing reliable and fast Internet access for Internet or Intranet services.

Richard Tang, Zen Internet Managing Director, said: “We are honoured to win this award in recognition of efficiency improvements made in our Data Centre as a Participant in the EU Code of Conduct. It’s a testament to the work of all those involved and we look forward to achieving further improvements as we deliver on our future commitments.

“Adhering to the Code guidelines allows us to better manage energy utilisation within our Data Centres, which enables us to better control our costs and in turn offer better priced hosting products and services to our customers.”

The EU Code of Conduct has been created in response to increasing energy consumption in data centres and the need to reduce the related environmental, economic and energy supply security impacts.

The aim is to inform and stimulate data centre operators and owners to reduce energy consumption in a cost-effective manner without hampering the mission critical function of data centres. The Code of Conduct aims to achieve this by improving understanding of energy demand within the data centre, raising awareness, and recommending energy efficient best practice and targets.