British Gas wins Data Centre Project of the Year Award

British Gas, part of the Centrica group, has won the Data Centre Project of the Year Award at the UK IT Industry Awards 2014 run by BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT, and Computing. The company was presented with the Award by comedian Rich Hall at a gala evening event held at the Battersea Park Events Arena, London.

Monday, 17th November 2014 Posted 9 years ago in by Phil Alsop

The Data Centre Migration and Transformation team ran a three year project to migrate all of Centrica's 160 enterprise applications to new data centres. This was completed to time with minimal business disruption. The project team had to devise an approach that delivered lower cost and enhanced systems stability, whilst enabling other critical system change to continue simultaneously.

Paul Fletcher, Group Chief Executive Officer BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT, said: “I would like to congratulate British Gas on this outstanding achievement. Our judges were highly impressed by the solution to the business problem, and the relentless focus on ROI as the overriding metric.”

The Data Centre Project of the Year Award is presented to a public or private sector entrant for the most outstanding IT project completed during the past 12 months in implementing or significantly upgrading a data centre.

The annual Awards are a platform for the entire IT profession to showcase and celebrate best practice, innovation and excellence. Entrants can be organisations or individuals involved in IT across the public, not for profit and commercial sectors.

In total 24 awards were presented covering project, organisation, technology, and personal excellence and included awards such as Security Innovation, Infrastructure Innovation, Business IT Innovation and CIO of the Year.

Highly commended in this category was iomart.