VeryPC rewarded for outstanding contribution to sustainable IT

Green IT company VeryPC were nominated in two categories at this year's UK CEED National eWell-Being Awards: Greening Data Centres and Environmental Innovators, so were quietly confident that they'd walk away with a prize by the end of the evening. What they didn't expect was to be singled out for a special award that SustainIT had kept up their sleeve and not whispered a word of to anyone.

During the normal course of events, Peter Hopton, MD of VeryPC, accepted the winner's award for the Greening Data Centres category and a high commendation for Environmental Innovation (this being the category that the eco-friendly computer company won the previous year). Enough to warrant a glass of champagne by any standards, but before the close of the ceremony, MD Peter Hopton was surprised to hear the announcement that this year there was to be an additional, Special Award for Outstanding Contribution To Sustainable IT, and that the recipients were none other than VeryPC.

"We're quite amazed to be singled out by SustainIT for this accolade. It's honour enough to be nominated, and even more so to win our category, but this is something else entirely. I'm incredibly proud of the work all the staff at VeryPC are doing, and am sure that this kind of recognition will only spur us all on to providing even better energy efficient GreenPCs and GreenServers for our customers. Along with tonight's other winners and nominees, we've made a start in improving things, but there's still a lot of work for the green IT business community to do." said Peter Hopton, Managing Director of VeryPC.

At their environmentally friendly headquarters in Sheffield, UK, VeryPC are hard at work producing some of the world's most energy efficient desktop computers and enterprise level servers. Their GreenPCs and GreenServers can be found in schools, universities, homes, businesses and other organisations across the UK and worldwide. By carefully selecting and combining the cleanest and most efficient materials and components, the carbon neutral company achieves its low energy product targets without compromising the essential high performance required by today's demanding home and business IT applications.

To find out more about the UK CEED National eWell-Being Awards 2009, click here

To find out more about Very PC visit the company website

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