Library & Tools

Following the natural disaster in Japan on 11 March 2011, the country’s nuclear power issues and entire electrical power scheme were changed. For data centres, many tools and methods recommended by The Green Grid were put into practice and the reduced power consumption by data centres provided good results. This session discussed the future of the power scheme in Japan, and the efforts in progress by the data centre owners and operators.

This session presented the work of the Data Centre Life Cycle Analysis Task Force. The objective of the data centre life cycle analysis study is not to provide numbers, but to first present a formal framework based on international standards to conduct data centre life cycle analysis, then to identify existing studies dealing with environmental aspects of data centres or components of data centres and finally to make a proposal for future studies to get as close as possible to a complete data centre life cycle analysis.

This session presented the future of The Green Grid’s Data Centre Maturity Model (DCMM) and the newly created assessment tool. The tool allows you to assess your data centre and IT portfolio against the DCMM, get access to your personal DCMM equalizer, and obtain benchmarking results. The DCMM touches upon every aspect of the data centre including power, cooling, compute, storage, and network. The levels of the model outline current best practices and a five year roadmap for the industry.

In this session, Harqs Singh, André Rouyer and David Snelling highlighted the progress that the EMEA Work Groups and Committees have made in the past year, reviewed current projects, and offered a preview of future activities.

The session addressed the current status on the liaisons that The Green Grid has developed in EMEA and the corresponding works in progress. It particularly focused on the new initiatives being taken by the European Commission as far as capturing carbon emissions and measuring energy efficiency in the ICT world in which the data centre industry and The Green Grid are playing a major role. This session also included a discussion on a new glossary wiki of common terms for the data centre industry. This glossary was created in order to establish common terminology for data centres.

In September of 2009, The Green Grid and its Operations Work Group accepted the opportunity to study the impact of energy efficiency improvements in a member company’s data centre. The purpose of the study is to provide operators with a set of The Green Grid endorsed improvement metrics and ROI models intended to assist data centre operators with building credible business cases for performing energy efficiency improvements.

Raising the data centre operating temperature increases the number of hours and days a year that economizers can be used, reducing operating costs. Though what effect does this have on the reliability and energy consumption of the IT equipment itself? This session looked at the scope for increasing inlet temperatures, the effect on IT equipment, and what ASHRAE has to say on the subject.

This session offered an overview of The Green Grid, reviewed the accomplishments of the last year, and addressed the expanded mission and new directions that The Green Grid unveiled at the 2011 US Technical Forum. Executive Director Mark Monroe covered the past, looked to the future, and answered questions from attendees.

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"To meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs” (Brundtland 1987). This is the goal of sustainable development. France has developed several initiatives on this basis from the constitutional charter on the environment in March 2005 to the “Grenelle” laws voted in 2007 and 2010. The “Grenelle process” was totally new for French government and will strongly impact the French economy and business, beyond the strong breakthrough concerning the State organization and regulations.

Recently The Green Grid announced the creation of two new metrics designed to help improve the sustainability of data center facilities by measuring the effectiveness of carbon and water use tied specifically to the IT energy infrastructure they contain. The new metrics, Carbon Usage Effectiveness (CUE™) and the Water Usage Effectiveness (WUE™), are joining The Green Grid’s widely-used Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) metric. All are designed to help IT, facilities, and sustainability organizations across the globe optimize their data centers. This will be a facilitated discussion among a panel of contributors who co-authored CUE and WUE and the audience. The panel and audience will have an interactive session where we explore the benefits and challenges of the new metrics.

The Green Grid has released several metrics over the past few years targeting specific areas of data center energy efficiency. This session will be a panel of co-authors for the released metrics PUE, ERE, DCcE, and the soon to be released Partial PUE. The presenters will provide an introduction and current status to each metric and will reserve time for an interactive audience discussion.

The U.S. Department of Energy and Lawrence Berkley National Labs created a training program for Data Center Practitioners to review first level energy efficiency assessments of their data centers. The Green Grid has created an Excel based assessment tool to be used as the IT module of the program. This presentation will cover the status of the tool and several of the key features. The second half of this session provides a brief overview and progress report on the DCEP program. The data center industry and DOE have partnered to develop a certificate process leading to energy practitioners qualified to evaluate the energy status and efficiency opportunities in data centers. The key objective is to raise the standards of those involved in energy assessments to accelerate energy savings in the dynamic and energy-intensive marketplace of data centers. The practitioners are trained to provide a consistent approach through system-level energy assessments. They have documented knowledge and skills including proficiency in the use of the DC Pro Software Tool Suite. Target groups for participating in the program include data center personnel (in-house expertise) and consulting professionals (for-fee consulting). After a number of pilot training events in 2010, the program will be offered world-wide in 2011.

A recent survey conducted by The Green Grid revealed four-fifths of data center operators are not looking for unused servers as part of regular operations. Those who do, find on average 10% of their servers are running without being used. This session investigates the cost of wasteful servers and why ignoring them can put the ROI of virtualization at risk. Also explained are new approaches to monitoring servers, where power and usage measurements are combined with business value to shine a spotlight on a hidden problem within the data center.

For years you have heard of the impending release of the ENERGY STAR rating and label for data centers. This presentation will report on the first six months of use since the release of the rating in June 2010, and will also highlight opportunities for data center operators to leverage the value of the ENERGY STAR label and brand to benefit their operations. First, we’ll recap the history of the rating development. Next will be a review of use since its release, with highlights of the more than half-dozen data centers that have already earned the ENERGY STAR label. The presentation will conclude with a discussion of the value of the ENERGY STAR label to data center operators, as well as the growing number of mandatory benchmarking laws that will impact data center operators.

This session will review the progress and current status specific to the Global Harmonization of Metrics effort. In 2009 The Green Grid in collaboration with organizations around the globe began driving toward a set of metrics and indices which can be formally adopted by all participant organizations to improve data center energy efficiency globally. Groups participating in this effort are the Department of Energy, the Environmental Protection Agency, the European Union Code of Conduct, Japan’s Green IT Promotion Council, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, and various additional industry groups.

Regulators around the world are taking aim at IT in general, and data centers in particular, in their efforts to regulate reduced energy use and carbon emissions. But at the end of the day, we need more IT and innovation, not less. Rob Atkinson will discuss why policy makers should be concentrating on spurring digital transformation – incentivizing conversion of energy intensive atoms to energy savings bits and why spurring fundamental clean energy R&D, rather than regulating IT efficiency, is the surer path to the needed low carbon global economy.

As The Green Grid closes in on its fifth year, there is significant achievement, expansion, and change for the organization. This session reviews some of the accomplishments of the last year, and covers the annual user meeting requirements, but more importantly addresses the expanded mission and new directions that The Green Grid will pursue in the coming months. With input from the Advisory Council, the organization will unveil and examine the exciting new charter. Chair of the Board and President John Tuccillo and new Executive Director Mark Monroe will cover the past, look to the future, and answer questions from attendees.

This presentation reviews the critical element considerations of site selection criteria for new construction and collocation hosting facilities. Additionally, it demonstrates the necessity to elevate the priority of sustainability as a new and critical element in site selection; proposes how the utilization of the current and future tools and metrics of The Green Grid can aid the owner/operator, consultant, and manufacturer in successfully choosing locations that can promote efficiency and sustainability; and invites participation into the development of these best practices and tools. 

What are the latest issues, concerns, trends, and requests from data centers? Data Center Pulse, a non-profit group of thousands data center owners and operators spanning 66 countries, will be hosting their annual summit the day before The Green Grid Technical Forum in Santa Clara, CA. This working session will produce real time content to update the DCP Top Ten list. The Top 10 will be presented and discussed at The Green Grid forum as part of the collaboration agreement between Data Center Pulse and The Green Grid.

The Green Grid defined the Data Center energy Productivity (DCeP) metric to quantify the useful work that a data center produces based on the amount of energy it consumes. This metric intends to allow data center operators the ability to optimize the energy used based on the current workload and to facilitate comparisons before and after actions are taken. The Green Grid proposed eight proxies that could be used to approximate DCeP and solicited industry feedback to determine the criteria to use to evaluate the proxies. In this session, the presenter will review the proposed proxies to measure productivity and present a preliminary assessment of the top five evaluation criteria. The session will also cover experimental validation of the proxies that The Green Grid is conducting to assess ease-of-use and accuracy.

Utility incentives can help bring Green IT within financial reach for savvy organizations who know how to leverage them, but finding and acquiring these funds can be confusing, time consuming, and even perilous. This session brings utility energy efficiency experts together with seasoned data center architects to share experiences, tips and tricks on getting the most support possible for IT energy efficiency investments, answering questions such as:
• How do I find out what incentives are available?
• How can I influence what utilities will fund?
• What is the best way to accelerate funding / sidestep bureaucracy / cut paperwork?

The Data Center Design Guide (DCDG) outlines and identifies a new architectural approach to how we build and modernize data centers focusing on energy efficiency, and how to move forward towards a coordinated holistic, single pane, policy based management for the entire data center.  The DCDG has been drafted by a Work Group within the Technical Committee and is ready for wider Industry review and comment. During the next summer, comments and inputs will be incorporated to finalize the document. This session will cover the main tenants and objectives of the Design Guide, document outline, outstanding items still to be closed and how user can use the guide to define a capabilities roadmap for future data center builds and equipment purchase discussions and decisions.  The session will also provide an overview of the management infrastructure initiative within The Green Grid.  The overview includes objectives, strategies, key concepts, and directions relevant to the initiative. It also describes the technical specifications and similar collateral under development by The Green Grid, implications to adopters, and future expectations. This presentation covers both power and cooling domains.

This session will cover the use of Intel’s Energy Checker SDK to instrument applications for productivity.  Content will include an overview of the goals of the Energy Checker SDK, how to use Energy Checker SDK to measure data center productivity (productive work vs. power), and the relationship to The Green Grid’s efforts of the Data Center Design Guide.            

Historically data centers, considered process cooling, have been exempt from previous editions of the 90.1 Standard. However, with increasing data center energy consumption and focus on building efficiency this exempt status has been removed as of the 2010 edition. Economizers are among the more significant implications from loss of exempt status. Depending upon geographic location and size an economizer system may now be required for data center cooling solution. The standard recognizes two distinct methods of economization: air economizers and water economizers.

This work provides a high level summary of compliance paths for Section 6 “Heating, Ventilating and Air-Conditioning,” along with various economizer requirements as they relate specifically to the data centers. Items to be covered include: exemptions, air economizer performance and water economizer performance. These mandates warrant careful consideration during: planning, design, building, and commissioning of new data centers or significant expansion of existing data centers.

During this session, the results and findings of the recently completed ASHRAE2008 Deployment status survey will be presented along with a recommendation for action. In the latter half of the session, the case studies of Fujitsu’s and Hitachi’s data center efficiency improvements will be discussed.

Observers of U.S. energy policy might think of energy efficiency as a useful tool to manage the growth of our nation’s energy consumption. They might also see it as a cost-effective means to ease our transition into a post-carbon world. And yes, the evidence does support both of these notions. But the U.S. economy now wastes 87 percent of the energy it uses, and regulators tend to focus their efforts on waste management, rather than on avoiding waste in the first place. There is an emerging body of evidence which compels a significantly greater attention to the critical role of energy efficiency in maintaining a productive and a more prosperous economy. The Green Grid, and semiconductor and information and communication technologies (ICT) more broadly, will be among the surprising opportunities that can enable higher levels of productivity – should we choose to invest in those resources.

Containerized or Modular Data Center Facilities can save time and money and increase business flexibility, but there are common issues that need to be thought about in new ways. This session will be an overview of the topics to be covered in an upcoming white paper including site selection, service access, lifecycle and refresh, insurability and certification, local code issues, and many more. This presentation is an opportunity to hear from and ask questions of the presenters who have direct experience delivering these types of facilities.

This session will introduce The Green Grid’s new Data Center Maturity Model (DCMM) which  touches upon every aspect of the data center including power, cooling, compute, storage, and network. The levels of the model outline current best practice and a five year roadmap for the industry. The DCMM provides capability descriptions by data center area so that operators can benchmark their current performance, determine their levels of maturity, and identify the ongoing steps and innovations necessary to achieve greater energy efficiency and sustainability, both today and into the future.

This session will provide an update on the state of the different ENERGY STAR programs for data center equipment.  It will also bring participants up to date on the structural changes that were introduced to ENERGY STAR product-based programs during 2010.

This session will discuss the recently updated EU Code of Conduct (EU CoC) for Data Centers. This document was originally created by the European Commission Joint Research Centre in 2008 in response to increasing energy consumption in data centers and the need to reduce the related environmental, economic, and energy supply security impacts. The EU CoC aims to inform and stimulate data center operators and owners to reduce energy consumption in a cost-effective manner without hampering the mission critical function of data centers. The EU CoC aims to achieve this by improving understanding of energy demand within the data center, raising awareness, and recommending energy efficient best practice and targets. The EU CoC recently been updated for the second version of the document. The Green Grid participated in this review process with the goal to provide comments back to the Joint Research Centre.

In this session a representative of the Thermal Management Sub Work Group will report out on their just-published white paper on the range of cooling architectures. In this comprehensive study the qualitative aspects of various cooling strategies are reviewed. This includes attributes such as current usage and availability, efficiency, reliability, equipment architectures, and standardization and acceptance. The architectural strategies are looked at in different levels from air-flow management, to equipment placement, to heat rejection. The session will also cover differences in air and water cooling and provide attendees with the latest information on the advantages and disadvantages of cooling architectures.

In the industry today, there is an an increasing need for education around the management of power utilization and consumption. Today's servers, at the core of the data center, foster new and advanced opportunities for efficient application and use within today's IT environment. With a better understanding of these opportunities, the concept of Server Power Management has the potential to become the ideal process for regulating power use. For data center personnel, building the knowledge base of the technology and the impact Server Power Management has on operating and capital expenses, lends itself to a more efficient and effective application of power management policy, within the organization and the industry. This session will focus on the basics of Server Power Management: the benefits of power management, the hierarchy of power management, the opportunities the learner has to manage power, and the learner's ability to do so.

Are utilities wasting ratepayer money on incentives for server virtualization? The ultimate answer will impact the level of support utilities give IT and data center efficiency in the near future, just as the hard work of reaching the SMB reaches a crucial phase. This session explores server virtualization through a utility lens, offering a case study The Green Grid can use to better understand the pitfalls, challenges, and opportunities that come with helping utilities encourage end users to invest in efficiency.

As The Green Grid closes in on its fifth year, there is significant achievement, expansion, and change for the organization. This session reviews some of the accomplishments of the last year, and covers the annual user meeting requirements, but more importantly addresses the expanded mission and new directions that The Green Grid will pursue in the coming months. With input from the end user Advisory Council, the organization will unveil and examine the exciting new charter. Chairman of the Board and President John Tuccillo and new Executive Director Mark Monroe will cover the past, look to the future, and answer questions from attendees.

In September of 2009, The Green Grid and its Operations Work Group accepted the opportunity to study the impact of energy efficiency improvements in a member’s data center. The purpose of the study is to provide operators a set of The Green Grid endorsed improvement metrics and ROI models intended to assist data center operators with building credible business cases for performing energy efficiency improvements. This session reveals the findings of this specific case study, insight into the journey and analysis, and lessons learned.

Over the past several years, server vendors added a number of features to their products aimed at understanding and reducing server power consumption. These range from relatively simple measuring and monitoring features to more complex functions regulating situational power use. Anecdotal evidence from the field, however, suggests that, despite the potential for these features to reduce power consumption, operating expenses, and heat loads, end-users have been slot to adopt and leverage. This session will report on the findings of the Server Power Features Task Force: the obstacles inhibiting adoption, a potential roadmap for TGG, and the industry at-large to remove these inhibitors.

Presented at The Green Grid EMEA Technical Forum in London on December 16, 2010.

Presented at The Green Grid EMEA Technical Forum held in London on December 16, 2010.

Presented at The Green Grid EMEA Technial Forum in London on December 16, 2010.

DC Building Power Asia '10 included an informal exhibition featuring equipment, materials, and literature. At the event The Green Grid also gave a presentation on "Issues to Consider for Higher Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) Data Centers."

Presented at the EMEA Technical Forum held in Paris, France on 2 December 2010.

Presented at the EMEA Technical Forums held in Europe in November and December 2010.

Presented at the EMEA Technical Forum held in Paris on 2 December 2010.

Presented at the EMEA Technical Forums held in Europe in November and December 2010.

Presented at the EMEA Technical Forums held in Europe in November and December 2010.

Presented at the EMEA Technical Forum held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands on 30 November 2010.

Presented at the EMEA Technical Forum held in Amsterdam on 30 November 2010.

Presented at the EMEA Technical Forums held in Europe in November and December 2010.

Presented at the EMEA Technical Forums held in Europe in November and December 2010.

Presented at the EMEA Technical Forums held in Europe in November and December 2010.

During The Green Grid EMEA Webinar, leaders of the EMEA Technical and Communications Work Groups discussed The Green Grid’s latest technical deliverables and provided an overview of the materials presented during the public portion of The Green Grid’s 2010 Technical Forum. Webinar attendees learned about opportunities to become more efficient in managing their most important computing infrastructure and identify methods that lower costs and support global sustainability initiatives. This regionally focused webinar also highlighted current legislative trends, activities and regional tools specific to EMEA.

The energy savings gained from server and storage virtualization and consolidation can be further maximized if data center managers adjust their power and cooling infrastructure to accommodate the reduced loads. The cycle of initial reduced load followed by load growth should incorporate adjustments to power and cooling. This presentation examines several approaches for efficiently cooling consolidated loads.

In this session, representatives from the Advisory Council will share the readout results of the 2009 BOF session and provide the updated "top 10" from Data Center Pulse. Additionally, Data Center Pulse’s "Chill Off 3", an industry test comparing efficiencies of different cooling products in the data center will be introduced to forum attendees.

ENERGY STAR is a government program designed to help businesses and organizations save energy and fight global warming with superior energy efficiency. This session will provide a brief introduction of the ENERGY STAR program offerings for commercial and industrial organizations, including the new rating system for data centers.

This session will review the work performed to assess an EPA data center in Washington, D.C., the results of that assessment, and the challenges and opportunities for this type of an installation. Many of the lessons learned by both the EPA and the assessment team will be shared.

The Green Grid free cooling map and web tool was introduced at the 2009 Technical Forum with a promise that suggestions for enhancements were welcome and would be enacted. This year, The Green Grid free cooling maps and tools have been updated to include maps of Europe and Japan, and the web tool has been enhanced to include common practices in economization, such as return air mixing and humidification. The Power Configuration Efficiency Estimator presentation is the first introduction of the tool to general users and will touch on the major features of the tool.

During this session, representatives from the United States Department of Energy, the United States Environmental Protection Agency, and the European Union Commission will discuss not only the current status of regulatory and legislative initiatives focusing on data center efficiency, but potential near-term future implications as well.

This session will present a brief overview of the first online tools and other tools available in the industry as background for an interactive discussion on where The Green Grid’s Technical Committee should focus tool-related efforts in 2010. The discussion will include not only facility-related issues, but also how best to provide guidance to individuals and groups responsible for IT decisions that affect power consumption and energy efficiency.

Last year, The Green Grid introduced the concept of measuring data center productivity through the use of proxies: simplified metrics that closely indicate the amount of real work done in data centers without the expense and difficulty of measuring work directly. This year, results of the feedback surveys are analyzed, progress on the metrics is discussed, and directions for the coming year are explained.

Power & Cooling, and by association energy efficiency, are widely accepted as the top concerns of many data center owners/operators today. As a result, there is an industry-wide push to improve data center energy efficiency.

During this time of unprecedented change in the global economy, the positive economic and ecologic values of energy efficiency has moved to the front of the global stage. The ongoing work of The Green Grid continues to offer valuable foundational as well as forward-looking materials to aggressively advance energy efficient IT globally.

In this session, The Green Grid Academy, we will introduce highlights and objectives of our latest released course titled, "Recovery Stranded Data Center Capacity". Attendees will also discuss their impressions of The Green Grid’s Brandon Hall award-winning eLearning "Measures and Metrics" course. Based on the group’s feedback, the presenter will introduce 2010 plans including the creation and charter of the newly formed Education Committee.

The goal of the Data Center Design Guide program is to provide the industry with a set of design guides to be used by operators and designers to build and operate energy efficient data centers. The presentation will describe the status of the program, examples of the first drafted chapters, and discuss next steps in completing the first complete draft of the Design Guide.

This session explores the problem of unused servers. Whether they’re running old applications with no users, used briefly and then abandoned, or even never used, it’s all a waste of energy which can easily be avoided with tools and guidance. This session will discuss the results of the survey that was given and conclusions that can be drawn from it.

During this session, CSCI will review recent activities associated with the program goals as well as planned technical activities for 2010. In addition, the talk will address opportunities for synergy and collaboration between CSCI and TGG.

This session will review ongoing work within The Green Grid and select national labs on developing a metric for measuring the benefit of reusing excess or waste energy from the data center.

The measuring and management of the PUE for an IT facility is an effective tool in the overall management of the energy use of a facility. While PUE is a valuable tool, it can be used inappropriately.

Electric utilities know that efficient IT equipment presents a major energy savings opportunity but very few offer targeted incentives for energy efficient IT products. Utilities should have a role in promoting a greener high-tech industry but face barriers which inhibit their meaningful participation.

The DOE Save Energy Now Program is collaborating with The Green Grid and other industry groups to develop a Data Center Certified Energy Practitioner (DC-CEP) Program to accelerate energy savings in the dynamic and energy intensive marketplace of data centers.

In 2009, The Green Grid conducted surveys in North America and Japan to better understand how data centers are measuring energy consumption, the challenges they encounter and the actions they take when they learn more about their energy efficiency. This presentation will detail some of the survey’s most significant results and what data center operators indicated regarding the current and potential future state of data center energy efficiency.

This presentation will describe the design bases and input being provided to Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory for the development and release of the IT module of the follow-on DCPro Assessment Tool. The presentation will provide a tour of the spreadsheet tool created by The Green Grid to deliver the requested input, design bases, and assessment process for the DCPro IT Module. This presentation is also to acknowledge and thank SNIA, ASHRAE, and other member companies for their input and assistance.

This Code of Conduct (CoC) was created by the European Commission Joint Research Centre in 2008 in response to increasing energy consumption in data centers and the need to reduce the related environmental, economic, and energy supply security impacts.

This session will review the progress and current status specific to the Global Harmonization of Metrics effort. In 2009 The Green Grid in collaboration with the following organizations began driving toward a set of metrics and indices which can be formally adopted by all participant organizations to improve data center energy efficiency globally.

The Annual Members Meeting will be lead by Larry Vertal, Executive Director of The Green Grid. This meeting will include organizational information and updates about the current status of The Green Grid. Following the meeting, recipients of the newly established Key Contributor Award will be recognized for their contributions to The Green Grid.

Higher Voltage Direct Current (HVdc) power in the data center is a hot topic in the industry and numerous discussion papers have been published, including several by The Green Grid. Broad deployment of HVdc is becoming more possible, but many obstacles and issues still need to be addressed before HVdc can be a viable solution for a broader set of end users.

In light of the recent Environmental Protection Agency announcement to support the PUE metric as the foundation for the Data Center Energy Star Rating system, this session will briefly outline the previous PUE/DCiE publications, the current progress within The Green Grid respective to PUE/DCiE, and the future developments that will be released in 2010.

PUE is an important data center metric. An online tool has been developed that will assist in the proper estimation of the static design-level PUE.

During this first part of this session the presenter will provide a review of the published PUE/DCiE Usage and Public Reporting Guidelines, an overview of The Green Grid PUE reporting database forms and a discussion on potential recognition programs.
During the second part of the sesion, the presenter will discuss The Green Grid’s efforts to develop a database for recording key data center information as well as measurement results and contextual information about those results.

This session reviews the events affecting our members and the data center industry in EMEA, including the carbon trading landscape and how this is likely to affect other geographies and countries going forward. Also covered are the EMEA Technical Work Group plans for 2010, the updated version of the EU Code of Conduct on Data Center Efficiency and the liaison with the British Computing Society. Also, in addition, the presenters will preview plans for connecting with the myriad of other energy efficiency bodies moving forward.

This session will include Japan Communications Work Group and Technical Work Group activity updates including 2009 accomplishments, a Japan organizational update, annual Japan events report, technical activities status, and the 2010 activity plan.

During this time of unprecedented change in the global economy, the positive economic and ecologic values of energy efficiency has moved to the front of the global stage. The ongoing work of The Green Grid continues to offer valuable foundational as well as forward-looking materials to aggressively advance energy efficient IT globally.

This session will provide an overview of the Liaison Committee and discuss Alliances in the IT, Facilities, and Government sectors. Representatives from ASHRAE, BCS, DMTF, GIPC, and SNIA will present a synopsis of their relationship with The Green Grid and key deliverables that are in development.

Digital Realty Trust developed an End User presentation describing the use of DCiE and PUE as Metrics to improve energy efficiency at their company.

Desribes the Data Centre Code of Conduct, how to participate, and the annual review.

Presented at the EMEA Technical Forums held in Europe in October.

The State of The Green Grid was presented at the four EMEA Technical Forums held in Europe in October.

STRATO developed an End User presentation describing the methods of boosting energy efficiency at their company.

Presented at the EMEA Technical Forums held in Europe in October.