EATON signs up for the CIO100 2016 Green Edge Award

Power management company EATON has signed up for the upcoming CIO100 Symposium & Awards event to be held from 9th-11th November 2016. EATON comes on board as this year’s sponsor for the Green Edge Award.

“We are privileged to be associated with the East Africa CIO100 2016 Awards. We have signed the cheque to sponsor the Green Edge Award,” said Parag Mendiratta, Eaton Sales Manager, Electrical for the Great Lakes Region and Ethiopia.

“CIO100 East Africa awards is a wonderful platform to bring together IT talent from all over East Africa, to recognize them, it is a very nice gesture and encourages the IT Industry in the region,” he said after  signing a symbolic dummy cheque at his office at Liaison House in Nairobi. He was flanked by his Regional Manager Stavross Spyropolous, Sales Engineer Ashish Narandass and Admin Assistant Elizabeth Kombo.

Present to witness today’s EATON’s CIO100 sponsorship Cheque presentation was CIO East Africa Director Andrew Karanja.

On why EATON was sponsoring the Green Edge Award, Mendiratta explained that, “There is a green datanet project which is going on in Europe, and since Eaton has been associated with the “Going Green drive,” we feel this is the award which is in sync with the actions we are doing and that was the obvious choice for us when it came to picking the Green Edge Award for East Africa CIO100 2016 Awards.”

Mendiratta explained that, “Eaton is a company known for innovation and we are involved with a number of green initiatives. In fact if you want to know more, you should follow the Green Data Network where we are a key partner when it comes to making green energy available for data centres.”

During the signing event, Mendiratta took time off to advise power users: “Whether it is at the data centres or at the grid level, the cost of ownership is increasing in a datacenter. We are calling upon more and more companies to be cautious about the running costs and not just look short-term at the buying cost of equipment. Because people buy cheap and then spend a lot running them, making the very famous phrase more relevant that, ‘Cheap is expensive.’ Invest wisely, look at the total cost of ownership.”