Based on the weighting scheme developed, top 12 Green-IT Users and top 12 Green-IT Vendors lists were chosen from the 94 participating organizations.

Terremark Worldwide, Inc., a provider of managed IT infrastructure services, today announced that IDG's Computerworld, the ''Voice of IT Management'', has selected it as one of the top Green-IT Organizations for 2009. The company states that this honor is part of the IT media outlet's annual Top Green-IT Organizations feature, which was published in the April 20 issue of Computerworld and online at Computerworld.com.

It further says that for the second year in a row, Computerworld set out to identify organizations that are implementing smart, efficient strategies to achieve ''green IT.'' The company explains that Computerworld then applied a set of criteria, developed with the help of green-IT industry experts, to identify the organizations that are working to reduce energy consumption in IT equipment and are using technology to conserve energy and lower carbon emissions. Based on the weighting scheme developed, the top 12 Green-IT Users and top 12 Green-IT Vendors lists were chosen from the 94 participating organizations.

''Maximizing the energy efficiency across our data centers has the dual effect of reducing our operational costs and limiting our overall impact on the environment,'' said Manuel D. Medina, Chairman and CEO of Terremark. ''Our commitment to energy efficiency extends across our company from the innovative products and services we provide government and enterprise customers to the methods we use to cool our facilities.''

''Smart organizations know that there are energy and money savings beyond data center walls, and even beyond the IT department. Green-IT efforts are found up and down the supply chain, from the data center to the desktop, from the mainframe to the end user,” said Scot Finnie, Editor in Chief, Computerworld. ''The organizations recognized in our second annual Top Green-IT issue have explored new ways to apply technology to reduce energy consumption and carbon emissions in every part of their operations.''