Athens, Greece. LAMDA HELLIX, leading data center solutions and services provider in Southeastern Europe, announced today that Athens-2, its new data center, was awarded the Gold BITE Award 2015 for “Innovation”.

“Athens-2 was designed with a vision to provide the market with a truly innovative and internationally competitive data center, for hosting critical infrastructure and operations. This project exceeded our expectations. We are proud, as a team, of today’s recognition, which adds on the long list of awards for our company throughout the years. It is another recognition of the hard and coordinated effort our people put in their work”, said Alexandros Bechrakis, Commercial Director, LAMDA HELLIX. 

Operating since January 2015, Athens-2 is compliant with Uptime Institute’s strictest data center availability standards, Tier III. It was designed and developed to provide incomparable energy efficiency and is one of few data centers in the world to obtain the US. LEED v4 Gold Certification; a recognition for the design, implementation and operation of energy-efficient buildings and facilities.

Athens-2 is part of LAMDA HELLIX’ business development strategy, which focuses on offering innovative services that cater for new generation IT systems, while being highly available, energy efficient and environment-friendly.

Athens-2 data center was designed and implemented by LAMDA HELLIX’ Integration and Consulting Business Unit; an experienced team  that undertakes the management of complex data center projects in a way that assures physical security, systems availability, the highest possible energy efficiency, as well as protection from physical disasters.

The Annual Business IT Excellence (BITE) Awards highlight and recognize technological advancement, innovation and business value of IT.