The Green Grid

MAY
30

The Green Grid puts resource efficiency on DataCentres Europe agenda

The Green Grid has taken to the stage this week to talk about the need for greater clarity on data centre resource efficiency obligations, and to explain how it is developing and driving the implementation of new metrics, models, and resources to enhance data centre operators' understanding of the energy efficiency of their IT environments.

MAY
29

Green Grid forms 'end-of-life' e-waste alliance

A new alliance, with a Beaverton component, will take aim at reducing e-waste and help address questions regarding “end-of-life” electronic equipment disposal.

MAY
29

Groups partner on new e-scrap measurement tool

Two electronics stewardship and IT management organizations have teamed up to better measure e-scrap recycling and disposal.

MAY
29

New partnership explores e-waste disposal

A new alliance wants to advance the e-waste discussion and help organisations around the world to identify the best practices to deal with electronic equipment disposal.

MAY
29

New Partnership on End-of-Life ICT Equipment

The Solving the E-Waste Problem (StEP) Initiative (http://bit.ly/MpeGEc), which is hosted by UNU-ISP’s operating unit in Bonn, Germany (UNU-ISP SCYCLE (http://bit.ly/19oFD4h)), has entered into a new partnership with The Green Grid (http://bit.ly/10JRxzb), a non-profit consortium of industry stakeholders that seeks to improve the resource efficiency of business information and communications technology (ICT).

MAY
28

Deciphering The Green Grid's electronics disposal metric

What is electronics disposal efficiency? Where does this fit in the scheme of data center metrics?

MAY
22

Time to restate the value of energy efficiency Code of Conduct, says The Green Grid

Provides invaluable reference point for best practice for increasingly complex regulatory landscape.

MAY
15

The Green Grid explains the importance of facility operator involvement at the early stages of a data centre lifecycle

New white paper outlines how to best prepare facility operators at the most critical stage of a data centre lifecycle.

MAY
14

Green Grid highlights crucial role of datacentre facility operator

Datacentre facility operators should be involved right from the start of the datacentre development process.

MAY
02

PUE metric helps keep data center energy use in check

As data centers have become larger and more centralized, data center energy use has been on the rise. Research company IDC recently determined that businesses spend almost as much on power and cooling as they do to keep servers running. In response, businesses have developed metrics to examine energy efficiency; the tools provide broad measurements that are helpful for enterprises, but often are more appropriate for huge data centers.

APR
30

Data Center Designs for Evolving Hardware

This is the second article in a series on DCK Executive Guide to Data Center Designs.

APR
19

Facebook Opens up on Data Center Energy Efficiency

In advance of Earth Day, Monday April 22nd, Facebook is giving the public an unprecedented look into how the company's data center energy efficiency efforts are translating into real-world results.

APR
18

Facebook Launches Dashboards for Data Centers

Facebook Sustainability Program Manager Lyrica McTiernan Facebook is doing this because "we're proud of our data center efficiency, and we think it's important to demystify data centers and share more about what our operations really look like." Facebook has also shared the building and hardware designs, again through the Open Compute Project.

APR
18

The Green Grid outlines 8 key steps to best optimise existing IT equipment

Tips from The Green Grid provide advise for organisations on how they can become more ecofriendly with their current IT resources

APR
11

Eight Steps that Lead to Energy Efficient Data Centers

Anstatt nur neue grüne IT-Ausstattung zu kaufen, empfehlen Green IT-Experten zusätzlich bestehende Anlagen und Ressourcen zu optimieren und ein Szenario zu entwerfen, wie grün die Organisation sowohl kurz- als auch langfristig sein soll.

APR
05

Measurement, control and efficiency in the data centre

To control something, you must first be able to measure it. This is one of the most basic principles of engineering. Once there is measurement, there can be feedback. Feedback creates a virtuous loop in which the output changes to better track the changing input demand.

APR
02

Data centers: use often and wisely

Managing reliability and power usage in old and new data centers is becoming an art form of sorts. Data center efficiency and energy management is continually morphing as new products and services become available, but it is seeing substantive changes in 2013.

APR
02

The 21st Century Data Center: An overview

Data centers range from on-premise facilities running traditional enterprise applications to massive outsourced installations offering a variety of cloud services. We examine the state of play in data center-land, and consider some of the trends that will shape its future.

APR
01

Data centers: use often and wisely

A couple of weeks ago I returned from an energizing two days at The Green Grid (TGG) Forum 2013. TGG Forum is a yearly event for TGG members and non-members to network and learn about the latest projects that The Green Grid membership is working on. This year, I was honored and excited to present the second day morning keynote on “Engaging the Missing Link in IT Resource Efficiency” – namely, developers!

MAR
22

Look Inside Green Grid Metrics

The Green Grid is known for providing helpful metrics that center around improving the overall efficiency of data center facilities.

MAR
15

Do You Know the Hydro-Footprint Of Your Data Center?

The Green Grid has been at the forefront of the data center energy efficiency movement and is again leading the way in monitoring the use of water in data centers.

MAR
14

The Green Grid’s New Metric Tackles IT Recycling

The Green Grid continues to broaden its scope. After expanding from data center energy to broader resource metrics, it is now tackling the current state of IT recycling.

MAR
12

The Green Grid launches EDE metric to measure datacentre e-waste management

The Green Grid, the not-for-profit consortium that works to improve the energy efficiency of datacentres, has launched a metric called Electronics Disposal Efficiency (EDE) that can help datacentre managers measure how their electronic equipment is managed once it reaches its end-of-life.

MAR
12

eBay's Bold New Data Center Efficiency Measure

In the past, eBay has carved out a clear leadership position when it comes to sustainable, energy-efficient data center design.

MAR
11

The Green Grid Brings in New Metric for Equipment Use

The Green Grid has launched a new metric to help data center operators and organizations measure how electronic equipment is managed once it reaches end-of-current-use.

MAR
11

Data Center Highlights From The Green Grid Forum 2013

I spent a couple of days last week in Santa Clara, Calif. at The Green Grid Forum 2013, the annual get-together where Green Grid members share their best on the latest ideas and efforts in data center sustainability. The Forum played host to more than 30 sessions and I could go on for hours on all the interesting information I picked up. But I’ll spare you that and just hit on a few highlights.

MAR
07

The Green Grid Forum 2013 Tackles Metrics, Standards

This year’s the Green Grid Forum opened up a dialogue about efficiencies and regulations within the data center industry, giving organizations the opportunity to standardize and measure the amount of energy they use.

MAR
07

Challenges emerge for making Europe’s data centres more efficient

Europe’s policy makers face a dilemma. They have to collectively cut energy consumption across the continent by 2020, yet the various industries that need to reduce wasteful consumption significantly, from IT to transportation, aren’t doing enough. Part of the challenge includes figuring out the best ways to build and run data centres.

MAR
07

Introducing the Electronics Disposal Efficiency metric

The Green Grid launches first-of-its-kind metric to help organisations measure the responsible disposition of decommissioned ICT assets.

MAR
07

Standards & Compliance Briefing: Natural Seal, Energy Star, Sustainable Sites, Green Grid

The Green Grid has launched a new metric to help organizations measure how their electronic equipment….

MAR
06

Green Grid Publishes Recycling Metric

The Green Grid, which helped popularize metrics for minimizing wasted electricity in data centers, has developed a new method for cutting down on wasted electronics as old servers and other equipment reach their inevitable retirement.

MAR
06

eBay develops 'miles per gallon' metric for data centres

There's a maxim in the data centre business that you can't manage what you can't measure, and eBay has come up with the mother of all measurement systems for calculating data centre efficiency.

MAR
06

Estimating data center PUE

Reports and articles typically focus on measuring energy use after a facility is operational. The Green Grid Association and ASHRAE offer a wealth of information on how to perform energy compliance analyses and how to use the data to determine PUE (see “For further reading”). However, applying this knowledge to an energy use simulation process takes a lot of reverse engineering and postulations on how the data center will actually function.

MAR
06

See the EL Tech Review Winners – Products the Experts Say You Should Explore

Environmental Leader today announced results of its Technology Reviews, a program recognizing excellence in products and services that provide companies with energy and environmental benefits.

MAR
04

Driving datacentre efficiency to meet future demand

The Green Grid is one of the main organisations driving forward datacentre energy efficiency. Michalis Grigoratos chairs the Green Grid’s Europe technical working group and is business development principal for critical facilities at HP.

FEB
26

PUE A Meaningless Measure for Computing Efficiency

At the end of last year, The Green Grid announced that the Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) metric, which measures how efficiently a data centre uses its power, was set to become an ISO standard within the next year.

FEB
26

The Green Grid Announces an All-Star Speaker Line-Up at Forum 2013

The Green Grid, the global authority on resource efficient information technology and data centres, is pleased to announce the full event agenda and presentation topics for its Sixth Annual Forum and Members Meeting.

FEB
16

Is Seawater Cooling the Latest Trend in Data Center Operations?

Data Centers generate a lot of heat and this is due to the work functions of in-house servers.

FEB
06

The Green Grid Offers Guidance in Measuring the Full Enviornmental Impact of Your Data Center

It’s no secret that data centers consume a lot of energy, and thus have a significant environmental impact. Determining the exact extent of that impact, however, is a difficult task.

JAN
15

Energy Consumption Reduction and The UPS

The Green Grid has done a lot of work by way of helping the data center industry deal with and reduce energy consumption.

JAN
15

Focus on Data Centers Codes and Standards

What codes, standards, or guidelines do you prefer to use as a guide as you work on these facilities?

JAN
14

Green Grid Advocates Using Eco-Mode For Data Centre UPS

The Green Grid has claimed data centres can improve efficiency, and save money, by using the Eco-Mode of their uninterruptible power supply (UPS) and rely more on their utility grid.

JAN
14

Rendering the standard colour chart for Green computing

One of the most powerful weapons in the arsenal of IT efficiency is the Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) metric, developed by The Green Grid.

JAN
10

New White Paper Evaluates Eco Mode

The Green Grid has announced the launch of a new white paper titled ‘Evaluation of Eco Mode in Uninterruptible Power Supply Systems (UPS)

JAN
10

The Green Grid Offers Fresh Perspective on Eco Mode

The Green Grid, the global authority on resource efficient information technology and data centres, has announced the launch of a new white paper titled Evaluation of Eco Mode in Uninterruptible Power Supply Systems.

JAN
10

The Green Grid offers fresh perspective on Eco Mode explores energy efficiency gains and economic benefits for data centres

The Green Grid has announced the launch of a new white paper titled Evaluation of Eco Mode in Uninterruptible Power Supply Systems (UPS)

JAN
09

The Green Grid UPS Eco Mode is great but there are some things to consider

The Green Grid has published a whitepaper outlining in detail the most important points data center managers need to consider when evaluating the possibility of running their Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) systems in Eco Mode.

JAN
08

Database as a Service Provider Cloudant Joins Open Geospatial Consortium

Database as a service provider Cloudant announced on Tuesday that it has joined the Open Geospatial Consortium to integrate geospatial standards into its Cloudant NoSQL DBaaS.

JAN
03

2012 in Review and the Year Ahead Part 1

Cloud computing in all its guises started to gain serious adoption in 2012, and I think it remains the key development in the data center and ICT industries as a whole.

JAN
03

2012 in Review and the Year Ahead Part 2

This year has also been the year of data center infrastructure management (DCIM).

JAN
03

2012 in Review and the Year Ahead Part 3

The combination of new tools, technologies, education and best practices helped drive more awareness on data center efficiency in 2012 than ever before.

2012 Archive

DEC
28

Five Steps to an Energy-Efficient IT Environment

The Green Grid, the non-profit IT industry body with the aim of improving resource efficient in data centres, has compiled a list of five steps to an energy-efficient IT environment.

DEC
03

Green Grid Launches Data Center LCA Framework

Data center efficiency nonprofit The Green Grid has released a framework aimed at standardizing life cycle assessments of data centers.

DEC
01

Green Grid: Go back to basics to make energy-efficient data centers

All it takes is a few small changes to make energy-efficient data centers a reality.

NOV
29

Green Grid offers guidelines for data centre life cycle assessments

The Green Grid has introduced a new framework that organisations can use to assess the full environmental impact of their data centre throughout its life cycle in a uniform way.

NOV
28

Google Patents Mobile Heat Exchanges For Data Centres

Google patent promises more efficient data centres by positioning heat exchangers right behind the servers

NOV
23

Green Grid EMEA Forum signposts way to collaborative future

IT leaders need to raise their expectations for their data centres if greater efficiency levels are to be realised, according to a range of industry leaders speaking at The Green Grid EMEA Technical Forum.

NOV
22

Data centre maturity model: providing a holistic view of sustainability

PUE is no longer enough for some data centre operators

NOV
22

EU moves to standardise power specs for data centres

The way data centre companies efficiently measure power will become an ISO standard within the next year, EU commissioners and industry experts have said.

NOV
22

European Commission turns up the heat on data centre equipment vendors

Many data centres could be running at higher operating temperatures with little impact on resilience

NOV
22

Green Grid offers guidelines for data centre life cycle assessments

The Green Grid has introduced a new framework that organisations can use to assess the full environmental impact of their data centre throughout its life cycle in a uniform way.

NOV
22

IT managers urged to 'push harder' to deliver data centre efficiency

Green Grid warns too many companies still failing to deliver huge potential data centre energy and carbon savings.

NOV
22

The Green Grid unveils data centre lifecycle framework

A new framework from industry body The Green Grid aims to bring consistency to managing the environmental impact of data centres

NOV
05

Data Center Maturity: Training to Make Your Data Center More Efficient

The Green Grid-developed Data Center Maturity Model is gaining industry acceptance as a broad-based tool for the assessment of data center system health as well as providing a systematic approach to evaluating roadmap options.

OCT
31

Datacentre equipment ‘tougher than you think’

Data centre operators have been reminded that modern IT equipment is able to withstand higher temperatures and humidity levels than older models, which means there is no need to cool their facilities quite so fervently.

OCT
19

As the young Albert said, ‘es ist ganz relativ’…

But not the speed of light, instead, water consumption in data-centres.

OCT
18

GE Helps Hospital Data Center ‘Operate at 99% Energy Efficiency’

The data center at Chicago’s Rush University Medical Center is using GE’s SG Series Uninterrupted Power Supply with eBoost technology, and operates at 99 percent energy efficiency in eBoost mode, according to GE.

OCT
16

Do You Sell A Five-Star Environmental or Energy Product or Service?

In the six years since I launched Environmental Leader, I’ve been amazed and awed by the innovation I’m seeing in the products and services offered by companies in the space.

OCT
15

Six habits of highly efficient data centers

Organizations are raising the bar for energy efficiency with free cooling, DC power, modular data centers, and better collaboration.

OCT
09

Free cooling isn’t free, but it can be cheap…

Many people are confused by the use of the word ‘free’ in free-cooling as very little in this world is free, other than love. The term and the technology is not new, perhaps more than 10 years now, yet still attracts differing interpretations.

SEP
25

Important to recognize the dramatic improvement in data center efficiency

On Sunday, September 22 the New York Times published the first article in a series about the physical structures that make up the cloud, and their impact on our environment.

SEP
25

The Green Grid Responds to The New York Times Article “Power, Pollution and the Internet”

September 25, 2012 – The Green Grid, a global, non-profit industry consortium working to improve resource efficient information technology and data centers, welcomes the discussion that Mr. Glanz’s article has generated. Our members – data center operators, technology providers, facility architects and utility companies – are working on real-world solutions that are dramatically improving energy efficiency in data centers.

SEP
24

Microsoft raises the issue of water use by Peter Judge

It was a couple of years back that the Green Grid started to make noises about reducing the amount of water used by data centers.

SEP
20

Don’t Forget About Water in Your Data Center

Energy is critical to data centers; rising prices, potential new regulations and taxes, and limited supply make it a topic that is foremost on the minds of both data center managers and industry observers. But another resource used heavily by data centers bears remembering: water. What should companies do about water when it comes to their data center facilities?

SEP
20

Tech Trailblazers Awards welcome The Green Grid’s support of Sustainable IT category

The inaugural Tech Trailblazers Awards for enterprise technology startups unveiled a new industry supporter: The Green Grid, a global consortium of companies, government agencies and educational institutions dedicated to advancing resource efficiency in data centres and business computing ecosystems.

SEP
20

Top Ten Sustainability Initiatives of AT&T

Nothing Is Certain but Death and Taxes—Even in the Data Center.

SEP
18

Business Taps Into Green Opportunities

Green IT is changing the way business and IT leaders make decisions. But companies are discovering that they’ve only begun to tap into the opportunities.

SEP
18

Green data centre market to reach £28bn by 2016

Rising costs and increasing demand are forcing the data centre industry to undergo major changes.

SEP
06

Data Centre Display

In 2011, award winning North West data centre specialist, Sudlows seized an opportunity and opened the doors to its state of the art showroom, the innovation Pod. Since then Sudlows has worked together with a number of manufacturing partners, including Riello UPS, to give clients first-hand experience of the latest and most effcient technology on the market today.

SEP
05

Data-Center Green Movement Gains Ground

Data-center owners are trying to control skyrocketing utility costs by reducing water and electricity use in their resource-thirsty facilities.

SEP
05

NREL Taps HP, Intel for ‘World’s Most Efficient’ Data Center

The US Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory has selected Hewlett Packard and Intel to provide what it says will be the world’s most energy efficient data center.

AUG
21

The Green Grid Launches Module to Help Users Understand, Apply DCEE Tools

Data center energy efficiency organization The Green Grid announced on Tuesday it has introduced an Academy Course for its Data Center Maturity Model to help simplify the measurement of a data center’s energy efficiency.

AUG
21

The Green Grid makes measuring efficiency simple with maturity model, new course

The Green Grid has announced availability of an Academy Course for its Data Center Maturity Model (DCMM). An interactive learning module, the Academy Course guides data center and facility managers through the steps of the DCMM, helping them better understand and apply benchmarking tools and best practices laid out in the Model.

AUG
20

The European energy efficiency policy picture is a complex one – here’s what you need to know

It cannot have escaped many people’s notice that climate change and energy prices have risen dramatically up policy agendas across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa of late, with a raft of new policy enhancements being introduced – from Feed-in Tariffs for renewable energy generation to new carbon trading schemes and the revision of building regulations.

AUG
14

Data Center Water Use Moves to the Forefront

Three years after Hamilton’s critique, the largest data center operators have made significant strides in slashing their water use, and the industry has developed metrics and best practices to encourage broader participation in the effort.

AUG
01

Facebook Excels At Going Green

Facebook’s trademark color may be blue, but it’s also known for being green. New figures released Wednesday by the social network show that 23 percent of the company’s energy is renewable.

JUL
23

Green Grid and CSCI to Merge

The Green Grid is the industry body looking to improve energy efficiency in data centres, while the non-profit Climate Savers Computing Initiative (CSCI) comprises computer suppliers who have committed to producing energy-efficient products and corporate members who have committed to buying them. The plan is that the CSCI will move its programmes and membership under The Green Grid brand.

JUL
19

Climate Savers merges with Green Grid

Two initiatives to reduce the environmental impact of the information technology and communications industries announced Thursday that they will merge under The Green Grid brand.

JUL
18

Green Grid draws up new data centre guide

New report aims to help IT executives keep up to date with green policy landscape.

JUL
12

The Green Grid Data Center Maturity Model brings benefit to Data Center Management

The Data Center Maturity Model (DCMM) was launched by the Green Grid in February 2012. The model provides clear goals and direction for improving energy efficiency and sustainability across all aspects of the data center.

JUL
05

Will cloud providers have to think green in the future?

Environmental issues have been put to one side in recent years but it may be time to think green again - will cloud pay a part?

JUN
28

Energy Efficiency in Today’s Data Center

In this column, I will elaborate on aspects of measuring and addressing efficiency in energy, cooling and water-use related to energy.

JUN
28

Les data centers n’ont plus besoin de climatisation

En plus du confinement et des allées chaudes et froides, l’utilisation de l’air froid extérieur pour refroidir les équipements informatiques est incontournable pour améliorer l’efficience énergétique d’un centre informatique (data center).

JUN
21

Are IT Data Centers Emerging as a ‘Killer App’ for Green Power? Part I

Recently, Greenpeace launched a series of coordinated protests at Amazon, Apple and Microsoft locations to draw attention to the companies’ use of GHG intensive fuels in powering their data centers.

JUN
19

Gratis hulpmiddel helpt datacenters koel te blijven

The Green Grid lanceert verbeterde Cooling Maps ter bevordering gebruik economisers. Datacenterexploitanten worden met de verbeterde "Cooling Maps" van The Green Grid aangemoedigd om kosteloos gebruik te maken van gratis koeling door lucht met omgevingstemperatuur.

JUN
18

Green data centers : mesurer en continu les bons indicateurs

Le pilotage d’un data center est une mission stratégique. Il s’agit d’arbitrer entre investissement, fonctionnement, consommation et disponibilité.

JUN
15

Computer Woche

The Green Grid veröffentlicht Landkarten, die Firmen beim Kühlen mit Umgebungsluft hilft.

JUN
13

Free resource helps data centres keep their cool

Data centre operators are being encouraged to make use of cost-free cooling from ambient air with the launch of updated “Cooling Maps” from The Green Grid – the open industry consortium dedicated to improving the resource efficiency of datacentres and business IT.

JUN
13

Kostenloses Tool hält Rechenzentren “cool”

The Green Grid bietet aktualisierte Kühlungs-Landkarten, um den Einsatz von Economisern voranzutreiben.

JUN
13

The Green Grid aktualisiert Kühlungs-Landkarten

Um Betreiber von Rechenzentren beim Einsatz von Kühlung durch Außenluft zu unterstützen, stellt The Green Grid Kühlungs-Landkarten zur Verfügung. Solche zeigen, in wie vielen Stunden pro Jahr Free Cooling im Rechenzentrum möglich wären.

JUN
13

Updated airside free cooling map by The Green Grid

See how many hours of free cooling data centers can expect each year using air-side economizers in three key regions: Europe, Japan and North America

JUN
11

Schneider will tell you what you’re doing wrong in your data center

Schneider Electric launched a new package of data center assessment services for energy efficiency.

Called EnergySTEP (Energy Sustainability Tiered Efficiency Program), the services give data center operators a way to benchmark their efficiency against industry standards, such as The Green Grid’s Data Center Maturity Model.

MAY
30

Going Beyond Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) for Data Center Efficiency

Today, many organizations are looking for new ways of doing more with less, reducing IT budgets or perhaps curtailing the incidental costs associated with data center expansions.

MAY
21

The boss called, “What’s our PUE?”

Do you know your PUE?

PUE stands for Power Usage Effectiveness and it is rapidly becoming the number to know.

MAY
14

The Green Grid offers an on line tool, estimate center to the units

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MAY
11

5 green data center tips from eBay's Project Mercury

Despite its location in scorching Phoenix, Ariz., the online marketplace’s latest facility can be tuned to operate at a PUE of less than 1.2.

MAY
11

Green Grid Forum: Data Center 2025

The Green Grid technical forum provided a glimpse into the future data center. Jack Pouchet, director of energy initiatives at Emerson Network Power, was there to take it in.

MAY
11

Green Grid’s new mission: what’s delivered one year later

One year ago, The Green Grid widened the scope of its activities from a laser-sharp focus on data center efficiency to efficiency of computing in general. In February, at its fifth annual forum in Silicon Valley, the organization showed the first results of this new scope.

APR
20

Power and Cooling in the Datacenter

Datacenters are notoriously power hungry. What might surprise you to learn is that the most power-hungry element of the typical datacenter is not the servers at all – but the cooling systems that are needed to prevent the servers from over-heating.

APR
17

Cool like Facebook: Where does free cooling make sense?

Air conditioners may soon be a thing of the past, as major companies like Facebook, eBay (NASDAQ: EBAY) and Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) make the switch from mechanical cooling to outside air cooling to regulate the temperature of their IT equipment.

APR
17

Energy efficiency measures in Japan: Case Studies

This white paper from the Green Grid aims to help domestic data centers improve their energy efficiency activities by providing case studies about successful energy efficiency projects throughout Japan.

APR
17

New case studies highlight sustainability best practices at Japanese data centres

New case studies released today highlight how some of Japan’s most innovative data centres have improved energy efficiency, cut costs and reduced emissions.

APR
17

New case studies highlight sustainability best practices at Japanese data centres

New case studies released today highlight how some of Japan’s most innovative data centres have improved energy efficiency, cut costs and reduced emissions.

APR
14

eBay – inside a next-generation data center

From raised floor to containers, there’s never one answer to a problem at Project Mercury.

APR
12

Are Data Center CRACs Going the Way of the Ice Box?

Cooling systems represent about seventy percent of a data center's total non-IT energy consumption.

APR
06

Making the web more efficient, a thousand servers at a time

Peak efficiency at a webscale data center feels like a blast furnace.

APR
04

Green Grid launch online tool to measure data centre efficiency

The Green Grid has finally released an online tool allowing data centre operators to compare efficiency, sustainability and resource consumption against the benchmarks set out in the Data Centre Maturity Model (DCMM).

APR
04

New online tool measures progress of “green” data centers

The Green Grid launches free self-assessment tool for benchmarking against best practices and industry peers.

APR
04

New online tool measures progress of ‘green’ data centres

The Green Grid launches free self-assessment tool for benchmarking against best practices and industry peers.

MAR
27

Humidity in the Data Center Do We Still Need to Sweat It

Temperature is the hottest topic (pardon the pun) when it comes to maintaining the proper environmental conditions in a data center—particularly in the context of energy consumption and cost—but humidity is also important.

MAR
25

Scotia Global has its membership of tech trade body ScotlandIS revoked after Holyrod talks

Scotia Global, a technology company specialising in low-power data storage, was expelled from tech industry body ScotlandIS after it learned the firm had discussed new energy-saving technology with Scottish Government officials.

MAR
20

Spotlight Datacenter - Ebay - Project Mercury

Why Phoenix? Why would anyone build a data center in the middle of a desert that reaches temperatures of up to 119F°? And how in the world are they going to cool it efficiently?

MAR
16

Green Grid updates cooling maps with new ASHRAE classes

The Green Grid has updated its free “cooling maps” to help data centre operators and owners take advantage of free cooling all year round for their facilities, thereby reducing energy costs

MAR
14

The Evolution of the Green Data Center

At the Green Grid Forum in March 2012, several companies that host digital marketplaces and social networks highlighted their efforts to create greener data centers.

MAR
14

Understanding server efficiency

1E Chief Technologist Mark Blackburn discusses a new metric from the Green Grid at looking at server efficiency he says can greatly improve data center

MAR
13

Advancing sustainability and productivity

As the global IT industry’s leading voice for advancing resource efficiency in the data centre and business computing ecosystems, The Green Grid has introduced new materials at its annual Member Meeting and Forum.

MAR
13

How to make your network green

It is more important than ever to make sure your network and datacentre is running efficiently as part of a green networking strategy to cut hardware and software costs, save on power and contribute to corporate environmental policies

MAR
12

The Green Grid Introduces New Materials at Annual Forum

The Green Grid recently introduced new materials at its annual Member Meeting and Forum.

MAR
12

Why Data Centers Dont Need to Be Cooled to Arctic Temperatures

In March, thought leaders at the Green Grid Forum in San Jose, California, explained how their industry is decoupling the growth of data centers from carbon emissions.

MAR
11

The Green Grid Goes More International and More Practical by Peter Judge

March is a good time for efficient data center activists. It’s the month when the Green Grid holds its annual members’ meeting, and we get a burst of useful material, advising how to use energy better.

MAR
10

Green Grid updates cooling maps with new ASHRAE classes

The Green Grid has updated its free data centre cooling maps to allow managers to take advantage of free air-cooling

MAR
09

Data Center Maturity Model Tool From Green Grid

During their annual Forum and member Meeting event, the Green Grid has announced new standards, documentation and tools to help improve the data center industry.

MAR
09

Green Grid Forum 2012 Review

This was one of those conferences so full of energy, content, excitement, and thought leaders that even with two clones there was no way to capture it all.

MAR
09

New Green Grid Free Cooling Maps Published

The Green Grid has released White Paper #46 as an update to their "free cooling" maps for data center design and operation.

MAR
08

ASHRAE Guidelines Enable Year-Round Free Cooling

Cooling remains a major target for energy-efficiency improvement in data centers, and ASHRAE’s new operating temperature guidelines for IT equipment create an even greater opportunity to exploit free cooling.

MAR
08

Green Grid Forum new standards tools and documentation to improve the datacenter

The green grid makes public information, presentations, and tools announced at their recent member’s forum

MAR
08

New ASHRAE classes enable 100 percent free cooling almost anywhere

The Green Grid updates free cooling maps.

MAR
08

New ASHRAE classes enable 100 percent free cooling almost anywhere

The Green Grid updates free cooling maps

MAR
08

The Green Grid announces new material to advance data centre sustainability and productivity

Research, Tools and Case Studies Provide Roadmap for Sustainability at 5th Annual Members Meeting and Forum

MAR
08

The Green Grid Releases New Materials to Advance Data Center Sustainability and Productivity

The Green Grid recently introduced new materials at its annual Member Meeting and Forum. Data center, business, and sustainability leaders from across the globe convened at the annual event to collaborate.

MAR
07

Ebay Data Center A Case Study In Energy Savings

You can only imagine the huge volume of data that an operation like eBay stores and dishes out—and how much energy it might take to run its servers.

MAR
06

The Green Grid welcomes individual memberships

In response to strong demand from the business computing industry, The Green Grid is pleased to announce new membership opportunities for individuals to join and contribute to The Green Grid.

MAR
06

Virtualizing waste An expensive mistake

Server virtualisation has been heralded as a significant way for organisations to increase operational efficiency, cut IT costs and reduce carbon footprints.

MAR
02

Thought leader says green is much more than PUE

Green Grid member Jack Pouchet encourages industry to think about the true meaning of sustainability in lead up to annual forum

MAR
02

Thought leader says green is much more than PUE

Green Grid member Jack Pouchet encourages industry to think about the true meaning of sustainability in lead up to annual forum.

FEB
29

eBay bids for cost-cutting efficiency

eBay has made a bid to boost its green credentials by opening an energy efficient data centre in Arizona.

FEB
29

eBay Cools Desert Data Center With Hot Water

The typical data center is air conditioned. As massive electrical units work overtime to cool servers and other hardware, the temperature hovers somewhere between 65 and 80 degrees Fahrenheit. But in an effort to save power and money — and ultimately the environment — eBay is running at least part of its new Phoenix data center at temperatures as high as 115 degrees. The temperatures are so high, eBay can cool the facility with hot water.

FEB
29

eBay's Arizona data centre gets Green Grid stamp of approval

Online auction site eBay has slashed costs and maximised energy efficiency at its enormous new Arizona data centre, after employing best practices from The Green Grid.

FEB
29

Green Data Center In Middle Of A Desert?

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FEB
29

Report praises green credentials of eBay's Arizona data centre

A case study conducted by Green Grid, a collaborative organisation that aims to improve resource efficiency in the IT industry, has touted eBay’s recently completed Arizona data centre as one of the greenest ever constructed.

FEB
28

Best practices from The Green Grid Drive eBay's new data centre

The Green Grid, the global IT industry's leading voice for advancing resource efficiency in data centres and business computing ecosystems, has released a case study detailing its industry best practices as they helped drive member company eBay to achieve new levels of energy efficiency in its recently completed data centre in Phoenix, Arizona.

FEB
28

Ebay Data Center Achieves 1.35 PUE with Green Grid Techniques

Internet auction site Ebay used guidelines set by nonprofit environmental IT consortium Green Grid to help build a modular data center with a power usage effectiveness ratio of 1.35.

FEB
28

eBay's Arizona data centre gets Green Grid stamp of approval

Online auction site eBay has slashed costs and maximised energy efficiency at its enormous new Arizona data centre, after employing best practices from The Green Grid.

FEB
28

How eBay Built Its New Energy Efficient Data Center

With more than 100 million eBay users buying and selling $2,000 worth of goods every second, data centers are a big deal to the e-commerce company. And maintaining all that data requires plenty of energy: eBay's data centers consume more than half of all the power used by the company.

FEB
27

eBay Breaks New Ground in Data Center Efficiency

In 2011, eBay reached a major milestone with over 300 million items for sale at any given moment. And with more than 100 million active users (and growing!) and more than $2,000 in transactions every second, there is no doubt that eBay is in the business of connecting people online.

FEB
27

eBay Containers Push Frontiers of Efficiency

eBay’s new containerized data center in Phoenix is one of the most efficient data centers ever built, recording exceptional performance on industry metrics while operating in temperatures as high as 115 degrees F, according to a report released today.

FEB
27

The Green Data Center Opportunity

Despite current economic difficulties, the companies that construct and operate the data centers that run the Internet and store vast amounts of corporate and government data are expecting growth this year of about 19%. (Source: Datacentre Dynamics survey 2011).

FEB
27

The Green Grid welcomes individuals

It used to be that if you wanted to be a member of The Green Grid, you had to belong to a member organization. That’s no longer the case.

FEB
26

FedEx Unveils "Green" Data Center in Colorado Springs

FedEx can celebrate their first environmentally sustainable (“green”) data center, located adjacent to the FedEx Rocky Mountain Tech Center in Colorado Springs, CO. Based on the application of a number of green design standards, the Enterprise Data Center–West (EDC-W) can be counted among the most energy efficient data centers in the U.S.

FEB
23

Data Center Group The Green Grid Now Offers Memberships for Individuals

Nonprofit environmental organization The Green Grid announced on Thursday it is now inviting individuals to join as members and contribute to The Green Grid.

FEB
23

The Green Grid wants you!

The Green Grid hopes to expand their membership to all those involved in the search for more energy efficient operations.

FEB
21

Looking Back and Looking Ahead at Data Center Efficiency: The Green Grid Turns Five

Among important data center industry milestones this year is the fifth anniversary of The Green Grid, the premier international consortium for resource-efficient IT. Formed by eleven founding member companies in 2007 the organization grew rapidly and today boasts approximately 150 General and Contributing and ten Board member companies. Since its formation the organization has contributed a tremendous amount to the data center “science” of efficiency.

FEB
21

The Green Grid Forum 2012

Help to celebrate The Green Grid’s 5th anniversary March 6-7 in San Jose, as experts from across the industry discuss global issues on policy, technology, business value, and trends that will affect business computing environments now and in the future.

FEB
20

Green Grid gets ready for annual forum

The Green Grid will be holding its annual forum in March, along with two other key events – the Data Center Pulse Summit and the Data Center Energy Practitioner (DCEP) Course.

FEB
17

The evolution of UPS design

Robin Koffler, general manager of Riello UPS discusses the evolution of UPS design in line with data centre (DC) growth and transformation - and choosing the right technology for DC installations

FEB
16

The Green Grid Turns Five, Ready for More

Among important data center industry milestones this year is the fifth anniversary of The Green Grid (TGG), the premier international consortium for resource-efficient IT. Formed by 11 founding member companies in 2007, the organization grew rapidly and today boasts approximately 150 general and contributing companies as well as 10 board-member companies.

FEB
08

IBM and Tulip Telecom build massive, sustainable data centre in India

IBM has announced that it has worked with Tulip Telecom to design and help build the largest data centre facility in India to deliver new cloud and networking services.

FEB
06

Data Centres set for growth in Central and Eastern Europe

London/Prague 6 February 2012 – Consulting firm BroadGroup in a new report comments that Datacentres have experienced tremendous growth rates over the past five years, and now represent the most critical component of the Internet economy.

FEB
06

Forum to Address IT Sustainability

The Green Grid Forum 2012, being held on March 6 and 7 at the DoubleTree Hotel in San Jose, CA, will address critical technology, business and sustainability-related issues facing today’s business computing ecosystems.

JAN
25

How to Bring the Green Revolution to Your Data Center Door

Despite the fact that the cloud has increased enterprise sustainability, data center facilities around the globe are expected to consume 19 percent more energy in 2012 than in 2011, according to new research from Datacenter Dynamics.

JAN
23

The Green Grid to launch IT recycling metric

The Green Grid, the data center industry group famous for its Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) metric for data center energy efficiency, is planning to launch a metric designed to rate organizations’ IT recycling practices

JAN
12

2012 Speaking Tour: Part 1

Hopefully your 2012 started at the same hectic pace as mine with several leading indicators pointing to a solid year for the IT sector and data center community.

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2011 Archive

DEC
30

China’s data center expansion includes eye on efficiencies

China is working with The Green Grid and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory to promote and develop energy efficient data center practices.

DEC
28

2012 The Year of Big Data

As we roll into 2012 a quick recap of the data center related events and milestones that shaped our industry are in order.

DEC
22

Cloud Computing: Cloud-Standard Alliances Unite

The Open Data Center Alliance (ODCA) and The Green Grid (TGG) alliance have announced that they’re joining forces in their efforts to create standards for the cloud.

DEC
19

One year on

The Open Data Center Alliance (ODCA) was formed in 2010.

DEC
16

IT needs to take its green medicine

Mark Monroe, executive director, The Green Grid, stresses the importance of reducing carbon emissions from IT infrastructures and explains that achieving those reductions could be easier than you think.

DEC
14

Green Grid economizer survey makes fascinating reading

If you haven’t read the latest survey by The Green Grid on economizers (sorry about the ‘z’ spelling) then I can only recommend that you do.

DEC
13

Data Center War Stories talks to the Green Grid EMEA Tech Chair Harqs (aka Harkeeret Singh)

The Green Grid recently published a study on the RoI of energy efficiency upgrades for data center cooling systems [PDF warning]. I asked Harqs to come on the show to discuss the practical implications of this study for data center practitioners.

DEC
13

The Green Grid Establishes Presence in China

Dec 13, 2011 (Close-Up Media via COMTEX) -- The Green Grid, a voice for advancing resource efficiency in data centers and business computing ecosystems, announced that it has established its first presence in China.

DEC
09

China turns to The Green Grid to help improve IT energy efficiency

In an effort to enhance the country's capability in energy-efficient IT systems, the China Communications Standards Association (CCSA) has initiated an agreement with Thee Green Grid, an international consortium focused on promoting resource efficiency in data centers and business computing ecosystems.

DEC
09

IT Minds Quest for ‘Holy Grail’ of Data-Center Metrics

What’s the best way to measure the efficiency of a data center? No one really knows. But there’s no shortage of IT minds trying to figure it out.

DEC
07

The Green Grid Expands Its Network in Asia by Establishing a Presence in China

The Green Grid, an IT industry voice for advancing resource efficiency in data centers and business computing ecosystems, has announced the continued expansion of its global community of collaboration by establishing its first presence in China.

NOV
30

The Green Grid's Original Gets A Sequel

Most popular movies spawn a sequel, and it looks like the widely accepted power usage effectiveness (PUE) has achieved a similar distinction. PUE has become the most popularly used data center metric lately, perhaps as in some cases, if only as marketing tool. Along these lines are the “Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the greenest data center of them all?”

NOV
29

Going Beyond PUE for Data Center Efficiency

Today, many organizations are looking for new ways of doing more with less, reducing IT budgets or curtailing the incidental costs associated with data center expansions.

NOV
29

Half of data centres are now using natural cooling

The Green Grid, a non-profit consortium working to improve data centre energy efficiency, has published a survey of data centres, mostly in the US, that shows that almost half are now using natural cooling to save energy and cost.

NOV
28

Clients turning to green data centers for social, cost-based reasons -HP

Energy-saving initiatives to establish new data centers and improve existing facilities are increasing in Latin America, but the reason behind this growth varies according to customers' needs, HP's (NYSE: HPQ) critical facilities portfolio manager for Latin America, David Eisenband, told BNamericas.

NOV
28

Data Centers Go Modular

Prefabricated data centers can add serious efficiencies to construction, management, and operations.

NOV
27

Would you heat your home with a data furnace?

Data centers give off heat, a lot of it. At least half the cost of a data center is the cost to cool the servers.

NOV
26

Turn On the Server. It's Cold Inside.

TO satisfy our ever-growing need for computing power, many technology companies have moved their work to data centers with tens of thousands of power-gobbling servers.

NOV
22

The ODCA Allies Itself with The Green Grid

I hear the sound of tectonic plates shifting in the computing world. In the last few weeks, we have seen some interesting alliances being formed. Imagine vendor-based groups forming alliances with customer-based organizations.

NOV
19

Energy Savings in the Cloud

Cloud computing adopters may find an unanticipated edge when moving to this IT model: the ability to trim energy consumption

NOV
17

The Green Grid on modular data centers

A new report from The Green Grid offers advice on the planning, design, deployment and operations of modular data centers.

NOV
17

The Green Grid report- Deploying and using Containerized/Modular Data Center Facilities

The Green Grid is an IT research consortium. They have published a report - Deploying and Using Containerized/Modular Data CenterFacilities which supports that pre-engineered and prefabricated data centers are economical and also more environmentally friendly compared to traditional data centers.

NOV
16

Green Grid and Open Data Center Alliance Join Forces

When Cloud Computing Expo 2011, The Open Data Center Alliance (EDCA) announced surprisingly to want to work with The Green Grid (TGG).

NOV
16

Modular Data Centers Make Business and Environmental Sense, Report Says

Pre-engineered and prefabricated data centers now make environmental and economic sense, according a report by environmental IT research consortium The Green Grid.

NOV
16

The Green Grid makes "commodity" a plus for datacenters

In the world of computer hardware, having your product designated a “commodity” often was, at best, synonymous with “boring” and “mundane”; two qualities that few hi-tech firms wanted associated with their product lines.

NOV
15

Benefits of assembly-line techniques for data centres revealed in new Green Grid report

Manufacturing techniques that are extensively applied in other industries are now rapidly maturing for the building and deployment of data centres, according to a new report from The Green Grid, the IT industry’s leading voice for advancing resource efficiency in data centres and business computing ecosystems.

NOV
14

Understanding the Many Paths to a Greener Data Center

While increasing energy efficiency has been a growing initiative in data centers across the country, largely due to demands to “do more with less” in a challenging economy, an amalgamation of myths related to data center “greening” and a general lack of understanding of how to approach and achieve it has had a significant negative impact on the universal adoption of true “green IT” practices.

NOV
10

The Green Grid and Open Data Center Alliance join forces

In an unexpected outpouring of cooperation the ODCA announced at this week’s Cloud Computing Expo 2011 that they would be collaborating with the Green Grid to make use of TGG’s existing metrics and efficiency standards to build the ODCA’s forthcoming customer-focused cloud usage model.

NOV
09

Green Grid, Open Data Center Alliance to Drive Efficient Cloud Standards

Data center efficiency organizations The Green Grid and the Open Data Center Alliance announced on Wednesday they have formed a strategic alliance where they will use The Green Grid's IT efficiency metrics, including Carbon Usage Effectiveness.

NOV
08

The Open Data Center Alliance aligns with other alliances

The Alliance partners with Cloud Security Alliance and The Green Grid to tackle cloud and next-gen computing and data center models.

NOV
03

Open Commute Project Gains Momentum

From the racks to the roof, the Open Compute Project (OCP) is trying to break the mold to improve and redesign everything we take for granted as "industry standard" in the data center world.

NOV
01

PUE an Effective Metric for Data Centers

As the importance of information technology has grown in the world of business, data centers have become the centerpieces at many companies.

OCT
24

Green Grid Explains Economizer Findings

Last time I looked at some research the Green Grid did around the use of economizers, which provide “free air” cooling in data centers.

OCT
21

Green Grid and New Measures of Sustainability

In this video from InsideHPC, Nicolas Dube, who is a data center efficiency strategist at HP and a member of the Green Grid, gives an overview of new sustainability metrics in addition to Power Usage Effectiveness or PUE.

OCT
20

Natural Cooling Saves Money - Very Cool

The non-profit organization The Green Grid has conducted a study of 115 data centers, and the findings, as reported in BusinessGreen.com, are pretty cool

OCT
18

Half of businesses feed their data centers fresh, cooling air

Factors holding back adoption include building retrofits, reliability concerns and deployment costs.

OCT
17

Energy Savings in the Cloud

Cloud computing adopters may find an unanticipated edge when moving to this IT model: the ability to trim energy consumption.

OCT
17

Half of Data Centre managers now going back to nature, according to new Green Grid research

49 per cent of data centres are now using economisers to achieve cost and energy reductions, according to the Green Grid. Research carried out earlier this year and now released publicly for the first time, show that the use of economisers has reached a tipping point, with half of respondents saying that they already used them and a further 24 per cent considering their use in the near future.

OCT
17

Save Energy and Money: Identify, Turn-off, and Remove Orphan Servers

Congratulations to the Uptime Institute for bringing the issue of comatose and orphaned servers to center stage where it belongs. Their recent announcement for the Server Roundup really caught my attention as this is fundamentally a core principle of Energy Logic – only provide power and cooling to those devices you are using! Common sense, but as we know all too well, common sense is quite often the first thing we toss out-the-door in pursuit of instant access 24x7 compute capacity.

OCT
13

Data Center Energy Efficiency Tool From Green Grid

Green Grid is working on bringing out an online tool to help measure data center efficiency. Using this tool, data center managers will be able to get a measure of the maturity of their data centers and look at industry averages as well.

OCT
13

Economizers Shave 20% off Data Center Energy Costs

Nearly half of data centers are using economizers to provide natural cooling, and they are saving an average of 20 percent off their energy costs, according to a survey by the Green Grid.

OCT
13

Half of all data centers using economizers

Half of data centers are now using air side economizers found Green Grid research of managers running facilities of at least 2,500 sq ft.

OCT
13

Natural cooling helps half of datacentres chill out

New study reveals an unexpectedly high number of datacentres adopting energy-saving technologies

OCT
12

Green Data Centres will be measured on money

Efficient data centres have always made an effort to meet commercial needs – but I think the economic side of the movement may soon eclipse the “green” side.

OCT
12

Green Grid plans online data centre efficiency tool

Data centre owners will be able to measure their data centres’ maturity, and compare with industry averages using an online tool soon to be delivered by the Green Grid.

OCT
10

Power without knowledge...

At the 2011 Uptime Institute Symposium in Silicon Valley in May — one of the major international conferences on the data center calendar — the audience witnessed an impassioned debate about one of the critical elements of modern IT: data center energy efficiency.

OCT
10

Thanks for the Memory - Forgotten Secret for Data Center Productivity?

Last week while making the rounds of Oracle Open World 2011 I happened across a very interesting display at the Samsung booth. One that caught my interest almost immediately as it fit right in with the time-proven principles of Energy Logic and looked to be a play lifted right out of one of my recent blogs. Samsung was demonstrating how high-efficiency / lower voltage memory modules can significantly reduce the energy consumption of a typical server, desktop computer, or other memory intense piece of ICT kit.

OCT
07

6 Steps to Boost Data Center Power and Cooling Efficiency

Increased energy efficiency in a data center can be reached without major changes to IT equipment or facilities. Here are six ways to get there.

OCT
07

Green Grid European Technical Forum to focus on maturity model and efficiency

Corporate sustainability, data center efficiency and other IT aspects are up for discussion along with the direction for the Green Grid in 2012.

OCT
06

Green Grid to chair EMEA lectures on Energy Efficiency and maturity models within the Data Centre sector

On Thursday 13th October The Green Grid will be hosting the last of its 2011 European technical forums between 9:00AM and 2:15PM at the Fujitsu Offices near Hayes in London.

SEP
28

Video: New Sustainability Metrics Measure Datacenter's Total Impact on the Planet

In this video, Nicolas Dube from the Green Grid describes newly established sustainability metrics for datacenters.

SEP
13

LEED, Data Center Design Standards

Building codes, industry standards, and regulations are used pervasively in the design and construction industry.

SEP
12

Data Storage: Maximizing Data Center Power Efficiency: 10 Ways to Do It

Quantifying the power efficiencies of a data center may appear to be something pretty esoteric, but rest assured, it is all very scientific.

SEP
08

The Many Shades of Green IT

Energy costs may fluctuate over both the long and short term, but that hasn't stopped IT from making steady progress in both consumption and carbon emissions over the past decade.

AUG
30

Data Center Resources: The Green Grid Consortium

I am always looking for new resources for the data center, and just learned about The Green Grid. What is the Green Grid? (or whom?)

AUG
25

Green Grid: 2011 And Beyond

Over the past year, The Green Grid has continued to work towards its mission to empower organisations such as government departments and local authorities in improving the efficiency of their data centres.

AUG
25

How Mature Is Your Data Center?

The Green Grid’s Data Center Maturity Model gives IT the opportunity to put the state of their datacenter and datacenter planning in context with the current models of an efficient datacenter and a progressive datacenter future.

AUG
25

Two Heads Are Better Than One: The Case For Green Co-opetition

Several years ago, when I used to pay my rent by writing about the global IT industry, there was a somewhat bizarre flurry of announcements from the world's largest technology companies detailing how they had decided to bury the hatchet and work together.

JUN
23

Data Center Leaders' Q and A – APC

Soeren Brogaard Jensen, VP Enterprise Software, APC, sees the good of data centers in delivering freedom of speech, must tie energy to infrastructure more wisely and believes in social networks

JUN
06

The latest recommendations for energy efficiency measurement and reporting complete the guidelines for applying the Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) metric

The Green Grid Association, together with The Data Center Metrics Coordination Taskforce, has announced its latest recommendations for energy efficiency measurement and reporting.

JUN
04

Green Grid lifts lid on Data Centre Maturity Model

The Green Grid has unveiled a model for assessing the energy efficiency of basic data centre components. The new Data Centre Maturity Model evaluates a data centre’s power, cooling, storage, compute and network components.

MAY
28

Having right business model vital for success

Dubai: With the region's focus riveted on the political and economic landscapes, its tech industry — as represented by start-ups and small to mid-sized enterprises — is finding the going difficult. The steady stream of projects that used to keep these businesses operational have dried up quite a bit since the Tunisian revolt picked up steam.

MAY
28

Roundup: The Google Data Center Summit

Google hosted its second Data Center Efficiency Summit in a cinema theater in the SihlCity section of Zurich, Switzerland, Discussion focused on improving efficiency across the board, although cooling and power were frequently stressed as areas in need of improvement. Presenters and panelists included members of the Google data center team, along with executives and engineers from eBay, Microsoft, UBS, PlusServer, The Green Grid, BCS and many other companies and organizations.

MAY
25

Most Users Resist Warmer Data Centers

Since 2008, the largest players in the data center industry have been advocating operating server rooms at warmer temperatures. Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and Facebook have all embraced the idea of raising the thermostat in their data centers, saying the benefits of reduced spending on cooling can be substantial, and the practice hasn’t led to elevated hardware failures.

MAY
18

Data Centre Measure Rates Transactions Per Joule

Certification organisation Underwriters Laboratories (UL) has adopted a standard for data centre efficiency, which attempts to measure the performance of servers in transactions per Joule. The PAR4 measure has been produced by infrastructure management company Power Assure, and apparently gives a figure for the number of transactions a piece of equipment produces for every Watt-second (a measure of energy equivalent to a Joule) supplied, to allow data centre owners to better predict cost of ownership of their systems.

MAY
17

Reducing carbon emissions leads to carbon-neutral services

The data centre industry is the second largest contributor to ever-increasing carbon emissions in Europe, ranking just below the aviation industry. According to the EU code of conduct for data centres, Western Europe emitted 56 terawatt-hours in 2007, projected to rise to 104 TWh in 2020.

MAY
11

Data Centres: 2011 and beyond

Data centres have fundamentally changed the way organisations work, communicate and live in the global economy. Government organisations of all sizes have the opportunity to transform their facilities from an operational burden to a source of economic prosperity and sustainability, something which is more important than ever for them to grasp in the current economic climate.

MAY
11

Duplicated Green Standards Are Doubly Wrong

Sustainable IT is all about efficiency, isn’t it? About cutting wasted energy? So why are green IT people working on multiple standards, and duplicating their efforts?

MAY
02

Microsoft Sees Little Data Centers Everywhere

Portable data centers will be key to supporting the surging demand for online services, but equipment vendors need to start designing products especially for them, a Microsoft engineer said Wednesday.

APR
19

European data centre managers get low down on new Green Grid efficiency measurements

New measurements to monitor the carbon and water efficiency of data centres are to be debated at Europe’s largest content forum for these facilities next month.

APR
18

Data Center Carbon and Water Efficiency featured at DataCenters 2011

New measurements for data centre efficiency defined by industry alliance The Green Grid, will feature in a plenary debate at the 7th annual DataCentres 2011

APR
06

How to Use The Green Grid Maturity Model

eWEEK wasn’t sure how useful the Green Grid Maturity Model was. The Grid’s Harkeeret Singh talked us through it

APR
05

Green Grid Endorses European Data Centre Sustainability Award

The Green Grid has given its endorsement to the Green Award for Sustainability in Data Centres, to be presented at the annual Data Centres in Europe Awards which takes place on June 2nd in London

MAR
14

Explaining The Green Grid's Data Center Maturity Model

In this Q&A, Uptime Institute Director of Content and Publications Matt Stansberry interviews Harkeeret Singh, Global Head of Energy for Technology Operations at Thomson Reuters and Advisory Board member of The Green Grid, about the organization’s new Data Center Maturity Model, announced at the Technical Forum last week.

MAR
14

The New Dynamic Data Center

The floor of the New York DatacenterDynamics Conference was filled to capacity with numerous vendors.

MAR
11

Green Grid: Sustainable Data Centers are Assets, Not Liabilities

Data centres can require a significant initial investment and budgetary spending to upkeep facilities, but according to The Green Grid, a group promoting IT efficiency in the tech sector, a sustainable or 'green' data centre will prove to be more of an asset than a liability.

MAR
09

The Green Grid Issues New Water, Energy, and Data Center Compute Efficiency Metrics

The Green Grid launched three new metrics last week at its annual Technical Forum, according to a report Tuesday by Greenbiz.com.

MAR
09

The Green Grid's Data Center Maturity Model

In its annual technical forum last week, The Green Grid unveiled a new Data Center Maturity Model (DCMM), which presents a holistic approach to data center efficiency, providing clear goals and direction for improving sustainability across all aspects of the data center.

MAR
08

Green Grid calls for an eco-friendly data centre revolution

All businesses should be working towards creating a more environmentally-friendly global IT infrastructure based on green technologies like desktop and server virtualization.

MAR
08

Green Grid Rolls out Data Center Metrics for Water Energy Reuse

At its annual Technical Forum last week, IT industry sustainability group The Green Grid continued to expand its number of metrics to track data center sustainability efforts.

MAR
07

Advancing PUE with smarter data center power

By integrating more monitoring and digital control capabilities, data center managers can squeeze even greater performance and efficiency from existing data center power equipment.

MAR
07

Data Center Maturity Model White Paper

The Green Grid (TGG) have released their Data Center Maturity Model (DCMM) Whitepaper.

MAR
05

Harmonizing a PUE Metric

While singing in a immature choir, apparently not everybody has been singing from a same page of thepower use potency (PUE) hymnal.

MAR
04

Green Grid and DOE to test productivity proxies

The Green Grid has partnered with the US Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory to run a test of the eight proxies that have been proposed for measuring the amount of energy data centers use to perform a unit of useful work.

MAR
04

Green Grid Releases New Tools for Data Center Managers

The 4-year-old Green Grid, a consortium of data center-related technology companies, staged its annual tech forum in Santa Clara, Calif., this week.

MAR
04

Green Grid Releases New Tools for Data Center Managers

The 4-year-old Green Grid, a consortium of data center-related technology companies, staged its annual tech forum in Santa Clara, Calif., this week.

MAR
04

Harmonizing the PUE Metric

While singing in the green choir, apparently not everyone has been singing from the same page of the power usage efficiency (PUE) hymnal.

MAR
04

Highlights from The Green Grid Tech Forum 2011

For those who were not able to attend the Green Grid Technical Forum in Santa Clara this year – wow, did you ever miss a great event!

MAR
04

New metric can help guage benefits of data center consolidation

Global task force, including DOE and EPA, agrees on a way to measure energy efficiency

MAR
03

Government Organizations in Three Continents Choose Green Grid PUE Metric for Measuring Data Center Efficiency

The Green Grid Association announced that the Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) metric, created and promoted by The Green Grid, was established by a cross-regional global task force as the recommended metric for consistently determining energy efficiency in dedicated data center facilities.

MAR
03

Green Grid completes international PUE harmonization

International guidelines finalized, group shifts focus

MAR
03

Green Grid completes international PUE harmonization

After more than one year of work across three countries, one of the taskforces of The Green Grid has finalized international guidelines for defining and measuring Power Usage Effectiveness.

MAR
03

Green Grid expands data center efficiency focus to water and carbon

The industry organization behind the now-well-known PUE (power usage effectiveness) metric is creating new tools to help data center managers deal with other green concerns, such as their water consumption, energy reuse and overall facility efficiency.

MAR
03

The Green Grid unveils Data Center Maturity Model

Model proposes way to assess efficiency and set improvement goals

MAR
03

The state of data center utility rebates and incentives

Five years ago, Northern California utility Pacific Gas and Electric Co. made headlines by finding novel ways to offer rebates for energy efficiency in the data center.

MAR
02

Data Center Sustainability Takes Center Stage at The Green Grid's Annual Technical Forum

The Green Grid Association, the IT industry’s leading voice for resource efficiency in data centers and business computing ecosystems, at its annual Technical Forum and Members Meeting today reinforced the value of data centers to the global economy and introduced new tools designed to make it easier for operators to ensure that their facilities become more efficient, sustainable, and cost-effective.

MAR
02

How mature is your data centre?

New metrics from The Green Grid offer maturity benchmark

MAR
02

New Green Grid Guide Extends to Servers and Storage

In its Data Centre Maturity Model, the Green Grid adds servers and storage to its power and cooling concerns

MAR
02

Three new data center metrics for sustainability

At the Green Grid Technical Forum and Member’s Meeting, going on today, the Green Grid announced three new metrics for its stable of datacenter operational measurement tools.

FEB
25

An Application Level View on Data Center Energy Efficiency

The broad acceptance of Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) as a measure for data center energy efficiency is to be welcomed.

FEB
24

Transphorm Targets Data Center Power Losses

Data center operators have spent years working on ways to reduce energy losses during power conversions as electricity makes its way from the utility grid to the servers.

FEB
24

What to expect from The Green Grid Technical Forum next week

Mark Monroe, newly appointed executive director of The Green Grid, has had his hands full, nailing down speakers and technical content for TGG’s annual event in Santa Clara March 1-2.

FEB
21

The Green Grid - The View from EMEA

The Green Grid is broken down into regions with the EMEA Technical committee headed by Harkeeret Singh, whose day job is Global Head of Energy & Sustainable Technology at Thomson Reuters.

FEB
20

Go into the Light: Succumb to the Power of Cloud Computing

According to a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) report, US data centers consumed 6.1 billion kilowatt-hours of power in 2006.

FEB
11

How renewable energy counts towards PUE

In the 11th issue of FOCUS, we ran through The Green Grid’s categorization for its measures of Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE).

FEB
11

The Green Grid Evolves

Mark Monroe’s sustainability credentials have roots in former US president Jimmy Carter’s passion for solar energy.

FEB
10

The Inconvenient Truth About Carbon Intensity

Even the most efficient data centre has a carbon footprint, dependent on its source of electricity

FEB
08

Technical Solutions for a Greener Future

The good news for the motivated IT head is that there is a smorgasbord of energy-saving technologies that are relatively cheap to implement and produce quick returns – the low-hanging fruit that Gartner calls “phase 1 green IT”.

FEB
08

The bottom line on Green IT

Why bother with green IT? Put aside any doubts about the validity of climate-change science or moral rectitude and focus on the money.

FEB
07

Global IT Services Provider Sets Up Data Center for U.S., U.K., and India

In a bid to enhance its services for its valued customers, provider of Web based products and services, outshinesolutions recently launched operations for its UK and India data center.

FEB
05

Green Computing

Green computing or green IT, refers to environmentally sustainable computing or IT.

FEB
03

1E at The Green Grid Technical Forum 2011

As previously mentioned on these pages, The Green Grid (TGG) Tech Forum starts on March 1st 2011 in Santa Clara, CA.

FEB
02

See You at The Green Grid Technical Forum

The Green Grid Technical Forum is almost here and I don’t want you to miss it.

JAN
31

Energy Efficient Clouds

In May 2010, the Energy Bill was presented to Parliament by Energy secretary, Chris Huhne.

JAN
28

Monroe On Board The Green Grid

The Green Grid is responsible for a lot of good work in promoting green IT and it has just appointed Mark Monroe as its Executive Director.

JAN
27

Green Grid shifts focus, gets new exec director

Data center energy efficiency advocacy organization The Green Grid has named one of its founding directors, Mark Monroe, as its new executive director.

JAN
27

Mark Monroe heads The Green Grid, expands data center sustainability mission

Some significant changes this week at The Green Grid. Mark Monroe, a Sun veteran and a Center for ReSource Conservation board member, will be taking over as Executive Director following the departure of Larry Vertal from the post.

JAN
27

The Green Grid Names New Executive Director

The Green Grid (www.thegreengrid.org) announced on Wednesday that it has appointed Mark Monroe to executive director after Larry Vertal stepped down from the position.

JAN
26

Mark Monroe Takes Helm at The Green Grid

Data center veteran Mark Monroe has been named the new executive director of The Green Grid, the industry group focused on helping data center operators improve the energy efficiency of their IT infrastructure.

JAN
25

Rising energy costs increase focus on data centre sustainability

ICT sustainability issues are becoming increasingly important in the corporate world, and the high volumes of electricity used by datacentres particularly puts them front and centre for carbon-reduction initiatives.

JAN
21

Moving ICT to the clouds

Molly Webb on the carbon impact of data centres and whether companies should switch to cloud computing.

JAN
20

2011: The Year Ahead, Part 3

We continue with 2011: The Year Ahead, our look at predictions for key trends in the data center industry.

JAN
18

Do the Math with PUE

Calculate the Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) metric.

JAN
18

Top Five Trends for Green Data Centers in 2011

Last year, Triple Pundit took an in-depth look at how companies are greening their data centers. Now, it’s time for us to revisit that issue and ask, “What’s new?”

JAN
05

Save the Date – The Green Grid Tech Forum, March 1 & 2, 2011

We want you to join your fellow data center industry members and attend the Green Grid’s industry Technical Forum and Members Meeting, March 1 & 2, 2011 in San Jose, CA.

JAN
04

Under Raised Floor / Bajo el Piso Elevado: LEED for CDs/para CDs?

Jack Pourchet has warned us the way that USGBC has managed the LEED for DCs.

JAN
03

AMD Executive Blog: Power Resolution

Every January first, people around the world make new year’s resolutions, things they are going to change or do differently.

JAN
02

2010: The year that was

2010 marks the end of a decade in the millennium which saw technology permeating the lives and influencing it in a way never imagined.

DEC
02

After PUE, Green Grid creates metrics for carbon and water

The group that developed the Power Usage Effectiveness metric for data centers is now working on CUE and WUE

2010 Archive

DEC
13

For this green IT, benchmark being a zero is a good thing

Data center managers with a green bent need to bone up on the first of two new metrics being rolled out by the Green Grid, the industry association that has been pushing the whole power usage effectiveness (PUE) thing when it comes to the efficient operations of data centers.

DEC
09

Real Innovation is in the Applications

Over the past few years, the data center industry has gotten smarter about power and cooling. They’re adopting cold and hot aisle containment, fresh air cooling, water and air economizers, and bypass UPS systems.

DEC
07

The Green Grid: Introducing CUE and WUE in a World of PUE

PUE (Power Usage Effectiveness) has become a commonly used phrase to describe the efficiency of data centers worldwide.

DEC
07

Data center CO2 metric CUE hits the streets

Two new data center metrics from The Green Grid may help data centers track their carbon emissions and water use and compare and contrast their results.

DEC
07

The Green Grid Releases New Carbon Metric for Data Centers

The Green Grid is a global consortium of IT companies and professionals seeking to improve energy efficiency in data centers. Membership includes virtually all the names, big and small, in Green IT, from Google to Microsoft to Oracle to Hitachi and many others.

DEC
07

Carbon effectiveness metric here at last

Although I can already hear the background sighs of many datacenter managers, The Green Grid’s new Carbon Usage Effectiveness metric, announced earlier this month, represents a significant step forward for the datacenter industry and for the Green Grid , which developed it.

DEC
07

First Power, Now Water and Carbon

The Green Grid is an international conglomerate of various companies and individuals in the IT field that have come together to define a roadmap for enhancing energy efficiency and effectiveness in data centers and business.

DEC
06

Green Grid Unveils New Sustainable Data Center Metrics

The Green Grid has proposed the use 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.

DEC
06

New Green Grid Metrics

Just when you thought you had PUE mastered (or had taken some basic power measurements and perhaps done a rough estimate of your data center’s efficiency), along come more new metrics.

DEC
06

Green Grid Unveils New Metrics for Data Center Carbon, Water Use

Companies undertaking a sustainability initiative of any kind follow a well trodden path, steadily expanding how broad and deep their measurements and improvements go.

DEC
04

What to Read at DCK: Week of Dec. 4

For your weekend reading, here’s a recap some of the noteworthy stories that appeared on Data Center Knowledge this past week.

DEC
03

The Green Grid introduces two new Datacenter metrics

TheGreenGrid.org, provider of the Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) metric, one of the few datacenter metrics given wide adoption, has released information about their two latest datacenter metrics, Carbon Usage Effectiveness (CUE) and Water Usage Effectiveness (WUE).

DEC
03

Green Grid Launches Carbon Usage Effectiveness Metric for Data Centers

Data center industry organization The Green Grid (www.thegreengrid.com) announced on Thursday it has released two new metrics designed to improve the sustainability of data center facilities.

DEC
03

After PUE, Green Grid creates metrics for carbon and water

The Green Grid consortium, which developed the widely used PUE metric for measuring energy efficiency in data centers, is developing two more metrics to address carbon emissions and water usage, it said Thursday.

DEC
02

Green Grid Creates Metrics for Carbon and Water

The Green Grid consortium, which developed the widely-used PUE metric for measuring energy efficiency in data centers, is developing two more metrics to address carbon emissions and water usage, it said Thursday.

DEC
02

Green Grid Introduces Data Center Metrics

The Green Grid, a Portland-based consortium of technology companies bent on making data centers more energy efficient, announced Thursday the launch of two new metrics to measure the effectiveness of carbon and water use.

DEC
02

Meet the new carbon and water data center metrics

The Green Grid took the wraps off two new metrics this week, carbon usage effectiveness (CUE) and water usage effectiveness (WUE), that will help data center operators paint a clearer picture of just how sustainable their facilities truly are.

DEC
02

Green Grid Creates Metrics for Carbon, Water

Expanding its focus on sustainability, The Green Grid today announced the creation of two new metrics to measure carbon and water use in data centers.

DEC
02

Green Grid Introduces New Metrics for Data Center Sustainability

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.

DEC
02

Green Grid creates more metrics for energy efficiency in data centers

DEC
02

New Metrics from The Green Grid

As promised, The Green Grid introduced a new pair of metrics designed to supplement its widely used, but often criticized, Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) system – a move designed to help enterprises gauge their energy efficiency more effectively.

NOV
20

Green Grid EMEA Technical Forum au MTC

The Green Grid will be hosting a series of EMEA Technical Forums throughout Europe this year, including an event at the Microsoft office in Paris on 2 December 2010.

NOV
05

Facebook Goes Green with New Environmental Initiative

The social network is looking to use its influence to help the environment with the new Green on Facebook initiative.

NOV
05

Focus on internal, external and customer efficiency

Welcome again to another issue of The Electron.

OCT
21

The Green Grid and DatacenterDynamics name Japanese data center winners

Hitachi takes Grand Prix for Most Improved Data Center Energy Efficiency Award

OCT
20

More carbon, less productivity?

Simply deploying more and more ICT will not necessarily reap enormous savings says a new report

OCT
17

Intergence Systems presents its new HyperGlance software at Gitex 2010

IT leaders and managers have plenty of data but their tools provide little information and insight; a new product from Intergence Systems, previewed at Gitex 2010, is set to change this.

OCT
14

Energy Efficiency: Storage Steals a March

Everyone wants more efficient kit in their data centres, says Peter Judge. It looks like storage has got ahead of servers when it comes to energy measurement

OCT
08

Efficiency on demand: The energy efficient cloud

Businesses could see 26% rise in energy bills as UK moves to low-carbon supplies.

OCT
01

Green Grid partners with Gimelec to develop energy efficiency strategies

The Green Grid, a global consortium dedicated to advancing energy efficiency in data centers and business computing ecosystems, has partnered with Gimelec, an association for electrical equipment, automation and related services, to devise energy efficiency strategies for data centersGreen Grid partners with Gimelec to develop energy efficiency strategies Copy

SEP
27

Green Storage - The Present and the Promising Future

With rising concerns about energy costs and CO2 emissions, energy use in IT organizations is under growing scrutiny.

SEP
25

Data Centers: How Efficient is Yours Really?

Efficiency, as they say, is job one. This is a business reality that has most likely existed since the very first company made its very first sale.

SEP
24

Growth Predicted for European Market

New reports on the London data center market and Western Europe show increases in demand, but fundamental shifts underway.

SEP
24

An interview with R Brooks Borcherding, CEO of NaviSite on Cloud Computing

In this exclusive interview, we talk to R. Brooks Borcherding, CEO of NaviSite, about the rapid emergence and adoption of Cloud computing, current trends, the growing market of enterprise-class cloud, hosting, and application services, and much more.

SEP
23

Interxion Exec Named Co-Chair of Green Grid Committee

Colocation firm Interxion announced Thursday its director of corporate communications, Ali Moinuddin, has been appointed to co-chair of the Green Grid's European Communications Committee.

SEP
23

Recycling 101 - Getting Started with the Basics

Recycling, at the most basic level, should already be well established within your day-to-day business practices and easily extended to your data centers.

SEP
21

Are Data Centers Ready to Say Goodbye to the UK?

A data center is a big energy user, allegedly using up to 50 times as much power as the equivalent business office space and incurring an estimated annual power bill of around $1.6 million.

SEP
20

Keeping the waters clean for PUE

The Power Usage Effectivness (PUE) metric is an excellent metric for overall data center efficiency. As a result of standardization and clairifcation of hte metric by The Green Grid, it has become the defacto metric for data center efficiency.

SEP
19

Yahoo's Chicken Coop-Inspired Green Data Center

Design inspiration can come from unusual places — for Yahoo and its data center design team, it was chicken coops, which utilize outside air and can reduce cooling power and costs.

SEP
13

Top 10 Things I've Learned About Data Center Energy Efficiency

I’ve been in the computer and data center industry for more than 20 years, and have been privileged to participate in the change, evolution and exciting dynamics of this space.

SEP
03

Bay Area Digital Realty Trust Data Centers Save $6 to 10M in Power Costs Annually

Validating the effectiveness of its energy efficiency initiatives, wholesale data center provider Digital Realty Trust has saved an estimated 10,000 kW annually (worth about $6 to 10 million) at its Bay Area facilities.

SEP
02

Consonus Data Center Reports 1.35 PUE Rating Following Renovation

Consonus has announced the latest Power Usage Effectiveness score for its 15-year-old West Data Center in Salt Lake City, Utah, which reflect the energy efficiency gains achieved through recent renovations.

SEP
02

Staying on Top of Data Center and IT Regulations

Keeping abreast of Data Center/IT Regulations can be a difficult task for a nationwide technology services company such as Quality Technology Services much less a multi-national or global firm.

AUG
28

Welcome to Columbus!

That’s right – The Green Grid Technical Committee face-to-face meeting will be at the Emerson Network Power Learning Center in beautiful Columbus, OH.

AUG
26

Green Data Centres A Quest for PUE-rity

The PUE efficiency measure is barely three years old but may be obsolete, says Andrew Donoghue - but it's the best green data centre metric we have for now

AUG
17

Environment Agency Plants Itself in Green Data Centre

The UK Environment agency is using Capgemini's Swindon data centre, claimed to be the world's greenest with a PUE of 1.08

AUG
10

Microsoft Green IT Means More Than a Low PUE

Power Usage Effectiveness has become the de facto standard for green IT around the world, but a new white paper from Microsoft says that PUE shouldn't be the only focus of an IT department.

AUG
09

Turning the Tide: Approaches to Efficiency

In a world where energy growth is bounded, continued exponential growth in compute output will REQUIRE revolutionary changes in efficiency (the effectiveness of how energy is used).

MAY
27

The Green Grid Webinar

The Green Grid will be hosting a webinar, sponsored by Data Centre Solutions, on the 3rd of June at 9:30am BST. The event will offer participants a firsthand look at what The Green Grid has planned for next six months and beyond.

MAY
25

Five questions: What works and what doesn't in a green IT strategy

Is server virtualization part of your green IT strategy? Are you taking credit for it?

MAY
12

Green Grid devising ways to reward data centers for 'good behavior'

The Green Grid is forming a task force to help more electric utilities create attractive incentive programs for owners of data centers.

MAY
06

UK Grid Set International Standards for Energy Efficiency

The Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) metric, developed in the US by an organisation called The Green Grid, is used to measure power usage in IT equipment in a growing number of data centres across the UK, and has now been accepted as an industry standard in Japan, the United States, and throughout Europe.

MAY
01

Advancing Energy Efficiency

The Green Grid debuts new tools for data centre efficiency at Third Annual Green Grid Technical Forum and Members’ Meeting

APR
18

Earth Day in the Data Center

A thousand years ago or so, the yardstick came to into existence.

APR
12

Green IT: Forming a Global Consensus

This week, The Green Grid achieved an important milestone in forging an agreement between U.S., European and Japanese energy regulators on a common framework to gauge data center efficiency.

APR
12

Agreement On Data Center Energy Metrics

An agreement has been reached among a number of leading technology companies and industry groups on metrics that should pave the way for a consistent method to measure and monitor energy use in data centers.

APR
08

Energy Efficiency Metrics Going Global

In an April 5, 2010, press release, The Green Grid announced an important agreement between various government entities and industry groups concerning energy efficiency metrics for data centers.

APR
07

Standards organizations coordinate on data center energy efficiency metrics

For those of you who despair of all the differing yet similar ideas about what does or does not constitute best practices around energy efficiency, here’s some good news: The Green Grid is teaming up with several other major agreements to create consistency around metrics and reporting considerations.

APR
05

US, Europe, Japan agree on data center efficiency metric

The US, Europe and Japan have agreed on a basic metric for measuring the energy efficiency of data centers.

APR
01

Harmonizing Global Metrics for Data Center Energy Efficiency

The United States of America, European Union and Japan Reach Agreement on Guiding Principles for Data Center Energy Efficiency Metrics

FEB
09

The Glue Holding Data Center Energy Efficiency Together - The Green Grid

Energy efficiency in data centers is growing in importance, but for the most part it has been ignored until recently.

FEB
05

The Green Grid Intros Innovative Tools, Resources for Data Center Efficiency

The Green Grid, an industry group that advocates enhancement in energy efficiency in data centers and business computing ecosystems, has reportedly launched new tools and has declared it has gone into new industry alliances at its third annual Green Grid Technical Forum and Members’ Meeting.

FEB
04

Green Grid Intros New Tools for Data Center Efficiency

The Green Grid announced on Thursday it introduced new tools and announced new industry alliances at this week's Third Annual Green Grid Technical Forum and Members' Meeting.

FEB
04

Green Grid draws easy profits

The Green Grid is hosting its third annual technical forum this week, showing how saving energy on IT can be easy money.

FEB
04

Green Grid prepping new efficiency estimator, power calculator

The Green Grid’s third annual member meeting is this week, and it has been working on some new free online tools it will make available not just to members but to other interested parties in the coming months.

FEB
04

New Tools from The Green Grid

The Green Grid consortium has announced that it's developing some shiny new tools to help data centers measure their energy efficiency using its now widely touted PUE metric.

FEB
04

Green Grid hones PUE data center efficiency metric

The Green Grid held its third annual Technical Forum in San Jose, Calif., this week. The nonprofit energy-efficiency group will cover topics such as efficiency metrics, free cooling and reusing waste heat.

FEB
04

Green Grid Unveils Two New Data Center Efficiency Tools

At the Green Grid's Technical Forum, the organization introduces a Power Efficiency Estimator that enables data center operators to compare different possible situations involving power topologies and technologies inside their facilities.

JAN
21

Dispelling Green Grid Rumors

Over its three year history The Green Grid has become a critical resource in the effort to make the world's datacenters sustainable.

JAN
15

Data Center Pulse Partners with The Green Grid

Data Center Pulse announced it has entered into an agreement with The Green Grid to further enhance its ability to influence the industry via collaboration on data center challenges.

JAN
15

Greening Your Data Center: The Real Deal

From HVAC to rack density to hot/cool aisles, eWEEK Labs recommends the computing models and energy-saving practices to focus on for the biggest rewards.

JAN
05

Green legislation guide for data centres

The Green Grid has announced the launch of The Green Grid Energy Policy Research For Data Centres, a plain English guide to European data centre legislation affecting the industry in France, Germany, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom.

JAN
04

Data centre industry 'set for sucessful 2010'

The data centre industry has weathered the period of economic downturn and is looking forward to a highly profitable 2010

JAN
01

As the amount of data circulating on the internet and across computing devices increases exponentially, financial institutions around the world are aggressively filling data centre racks with powerful servers to keep pace. At the same time, energy shortages and energy costs are increasingly becoming economic and environmental concerns for organisations worldwide.

DEC
21

Going green 'can reduce data centre costs'

Many data centre owners are still not tracking their energy consumption - even though it could have a significant impact on their bottom line.

DEC
16

Green Grid: Companies aren't monitoring data centre energy

The vice president of The Green Grid has said that many companies still don’t even monitor their data centre energy consumption, regardless of both cost and green issues.

DEC
03

How to optimise data centre cooling

Improve your data centre cooling strategy with best practices offered by Vic Smith of The Green Grid.

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2009 Archive

NOV
24

Energy Improvements Save EPA $15K

Through a partnership with The Green Grid, the EPA looked to address one of its biggest sources of electricity use: its data center.

NOV
20

Georgia Tech takes on multidisciplinary hurdles in Green IT

A new initiative from the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) is taking on the multidisciplinary challenges involved in creating and running energy efficient data centers.

NOV
16

Green Grid Preps Data Center Design Guide

The Green Grid consortium is putting the final touches to a new Data Center Design Guide, which will aim to bring together the plethora of advice on how to curb energy use in firm's server farms and provide a comprehensive overview of environmental best practices for data center managers.

NOV
13

Today in Green IT

Proving that even small data centers can save big on energy costs, The Green Grid helped the EPA improve energy efficiency by 20 percent at its modestly-sized data center near Washington, DC.

NOV
13

The Green Grid and BCS to collaborate on global scale

The Green Grid, a global consortium dedicated to advancing energy efficiency in data centres and business computing ecosystems, and BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT, have agreed to work more closely and more collaboratively in the areas of data centre energy efficiency, research, and best practice.

NOV
12

EPA Data Center Cuts Waste, Finds Savings

The Green Grid, an IT industry consortium that is studying and seeking to standardize metrics, processes, methods and new technologies to make data centers more energy efficient, partnered last year with the Environmental Protection Agency

NOV
12

Green Experts Pour Cold Water On Sweating IT Assets

The Green Grid's John Tuccillo and Zhal Limbuwala from the British Computer Society argue that consuming less IT and upgrading less frequently isn't necessarily the most sustainable approach

NOV
12

Green Grid preps Data Centre Design Guide

Fresh from inking a new partnership with the BCS, green datacentre group announces plan for best practice guide

NOV
11

Green Grid and BCS Warn About Risky UK Carbon Rules

The Green Grid and BCS are teaming up to help companies adhere to new carbon regulations and to develop a data centre simulator tool

NOV
11

Green Grid signs data center efficiency pact with BCS

Technical working groups collaborate on metrics, messaging and standards

NOV
08

Creating an Eco friendly Datacenter Continued

Today, we will continue with itmanagement.com’s remaining steps to help you have the most environmentally friendly datacenter.

NOV
04

The Hidden Costs of Private Clouds that IT doesn't know about

Unless you've been hiding under a rock, it's been pretty difficult to miss all the discussions about Cloud Computing these days.

OCT
29

Simple Data Center Best Practices Can Cut Energy Use by 20 Percent

As part of a partnership with The Green Grid, the U.S. EPA made a number of small tweaks to how it managed one of its data centers, and ended up saving $15,000 per year in energy costs as a result.

OCT
26

How green is your data centre

The Green Grid looks at how organisations can demonstrate data centre energy efficiency

OCT
22

IT needs to prep for carbon trading, green build-outs

The Green Grid, which helps the IT industry manage its energy use, has analyzed current and pending energy regulations in Europe, and concluded that datacenter managers need to be proactive about limiting their energy use and plan expansion carefully.

OCT
22

Green Grid Guide

Want to be known as an environmentally conscious data center? Then follow the Green Grid Guide.

OCT
22

Green IT Supplement Keeping your eye on the prize

looks at the drivers for financial institutions adopting so-called ‘green’ data centres, including carbon taxes, erratic electricity supply and image, and urges firms to forget about whether it’s going to save the environment or not and focus on the energy and operational cost savings

OCT
21

Green Grid launches eco friendly datacentre guide

The Green Grid has launched a new guide for businesses looking to create better efficiencies in their datacentres, and to stay within the law.

OCT
20

The Green Grid Releases Guide to European Data Center Legislation

In its latest initiative to dramatically raise the energy efficiency of data centers in both the short and long term, The Green Grid has released an easily digestible guide to policies affecting the data center industry in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

OCT
20

The Green Grid Energy Policy Research for Data Centers

This report from The Green Grid explores how existing and forthcoming legislation is affecting data center operators in Europe, and how IT professionals can prepare and stay ahead of the curve.

OCT
19

IP Infusion Intros ZebOS Internet Route Server

IP Infusion, an ACCESS Company and a provider of intelligent software for next generation network equipment manufacturers and converged IP service providers, has reportedly introduced ZebOS Internet Route Server.

OCT
09

Fighting the Good (Green) Fight

What do the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the U. S. Department of Energy (DOE), Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E), Coach, Verizon, The Walt Disney Co. and the NYSE Euronext have in common?

OCT
09

Online tools for free cooling

Tool Provides Energy, Cost Savings Through Use Of Outside Air To Cool Data Centres.

OCT
08

Free Advice - Yet Useful

A critical discussion among technology providers, end users and companies is data center energy efficiency.

OCT
07

Free Cooling Calculation

Free cooling has been around for a significant amount of time and many data centre managers are choosing to, at the end of its practical life, replace their current cooling plant with equipment that takes advantage of free cooling technologies.

OCT
06

Disney, Verizon go green in the data center

Disney, Verizon lay out IT energy efficiency plans at Green Grid event

OCT
06

Green Grid points to air and water cooling energy savings

A new online tool has been developed to help stop data centres wasting energy and money – simply by taking more advantage of the cool air outside their buildings.

OCT
05

Green Grid Tools Support Data Center Efficiency

The Green Grid has launched several new tools and reports to help global businesses improve the energy efficiency of their data centers and operations.

OCT
03

Green Grid points way to greener datacentres

Consortium launches new tool in Europe

OCT
02

Green Grid maps Europe for free data center cooling

Regular best-practices review of design and operational practices in small data centers around US could improve their efficiency by about 20 percent and achieve a cumulative energy-cost reduction of $1.1 billion, according to the latest report by the Green Grid.

OCT
02

Free tool calculates datacentre cooling savings

Green datacentre consortium, the Green Grid has introduced a free online tool and maps to help datacentre and facilities managers calculate if they can use outside air to cool datacentre server rooms.

SEP
24

Data centre managers failing on energy measures

Metrics and monitors key to data centre power saving plans

SEP
22

Alternative Recommendations for DCeP "Service Productivity"

Back in February of this year, The Green Grid published a paper listing proposed Proxy measures for data center productivity, specifically Data Center Energy Productivity (DCeP).

SEP
14

The Burden of Power

Information Age Research Report Despite the opportunity to cut cost and boost green credentials, many businesses bury their heads in the sand when it comes to data centre power efficiency.

SEP
14

Context - the efficiency challenge

Information Age Research Report Measuring power consumption is just the first step in achieving an efficient data centre operation

SEP
08

For Green Data Centers Tech Firms Pick up Where LEED Left Off

What do the growth of cloud-based services, online video and an ever-increasing appetite for digital media have in common? They all require power-hungry data centers — and lots of them.

AUG
20

EmTech@MIT Preview: Greening IT

As companies wake up to the need for datacenter efficiency, they are faced with a bewildering array of problems.

AUG
04

The Big Green

The UK’s legally binding ‘carbon budgets’ require a reduction in greenhouse gases of 34% by 2020. IT has its role to play.

JUL
31

American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009

Electricity Rates Will Rise, But Owners Can Control Costs

JUL
30

Data centre metrics - consistency arrives

An increasing number of organisations are using The Green Grid's PUE and DCiE metrics to promote the efficiency of their data centers. In general, this is a very positive trend.

JUL
22

Canada: Towards Sustainable IT - Measuring Data Centre Energy Efficiency

A recently published survey provides contrasting perspectives on Green IT.

JUL
17

Focus: Reaching for green shoots

Technology for a greener and more sustainably profitable future is available through the channel

JUL
04

At the Intersection of Marketing and Metrics, the traffic lights don't work

First let me start out with the fact that the need for datacenter measurement is paramount if this industry is to be able to manage itself effectively.

JUN
11

Data Centers' New Age

With the new administration trying to tackle America's dependency on energy abroad, data centers, as spearheaded by the Department of Energy, are once again becoming the focus of the industry in its effort to reduce energy consumption.

JUN
02

Q&A Robert Miggins, PEER 1

An email Q&A with PEER 1 senior vice president of business development Robert Miggins, who discusses the construction of its new green Toronto data center, and how it aligns with PEER 1’s environmental strategy.

MAY
22

Measure PUE

Is Your Enterprise Energy Efficient?

MAY
12

Fear of regulations drives the greening of the data center

Large US enterprise enterprises are citing extreme concern about government regulation affecting data center operations and say this is spurring energy efficient green activities, a survey found.

MAY
12

Using power management techniques to green your IT department

By following a disciplined path and by measuring results using metrics, Rick Freedman explains how IT leaders can make the greening of IT using power management techniques an exercise in financial success and corporate responsibility.

MAY
04

Greening the Web

Saving a few watts here and there at the world's datacenters can have a big impact on the environment and bottom line.

MAY
02

Energy Efficiency Metrics are the First Step

IT leaders face ever-increasing pressure to reduce power consumption in the data center and beyond.

APR
27

2008 - a bouyant year

During the course of 2008, carrier neutral colocation operators continued their growth plans through expanding existing sites, building out undeveloped properties and announcing intentions to develop new schemes.

APR
24

Monitoring the Data Center

Streamline & Prioritize The Monitoring Process In Order To Save Time & Money

APR
24

The EPA's Use of PUE

The EPA will use Power Usage Effectiveness as the basis for assigning a a 1-100 rating to a data center, just as other building types receive a 1-100 rating.

APR
22

TeleCity Launches New Efficient Data Centres

A facility in Sweden will use free-air cooling and renewable energy

APR
14

Data Centers Want an MPG Rating for Energy Efficiency

Car buyers can easily compare two vehicles using the miles-per-gallon rating stuck to the window. Enterprise IT groups looking to improve the energy efficiency of their data centers aren't so lucky -- yet.

APR
13

Answer to Cooling Data Centers Could be Surprisingly Low Tech

Data center developers are discovering a far less energy-demanding and low-tech way to keep things cool: outside air.

APR
13

Green Grid Offers Free Tool for Data Center Cooling

The Green Grid has launched a new tool that makes it easier for an organization to establish how much energy and money it can save by using outside air and water to cool data centers.

APR
12

New tool could help datacentre cost cutting

The Green Grid launches a new cooling calculator

APR
10

Tool Measures Outside Air for Data Center Cooling

A new tool from the Green Grid helps businesses determine whether they can use air outside of their data centers, aka free cooling, to help keep systems cool and reduce energy costs.

APR
10

Microsoft aims for dramatic drop in its data center energy usage

The technology industry watches closely each month to see how Microsoft, Yahoo and Google stack up in market share. Increasingly, however, the big online companies also compete over another measure: energy efficiency.

APR
09

Green Grid: Free Cooling for Data Centers

The data center industry group has released online tools and maps to help data center operators learn if using outside air for cooling is right for them. Using outside air to replace power-hungry chillers is gaining more widespread acceptance.

APR
08

Low-Hanging Fruit for Green Data Centers Plain Old Air

Data center builders on the cutting edge of sustainability are increasingly turning to a low tech, widely available and free approach to cut cooling costs and energy consumption: outside air.

MAR
19

Which is more sustainable, paper or digital?

The life cycles of both print and digital media have positive and negative triple bottom line impacts.

MAR
13

Measuring data center efficiency easier said than done

Determining whether a data center is a paragon of green virtue or an unrepentant gas guzzler is trickier than it might seem at first glance.

MAR
09

Data centre 2.0

Processing and power efficiencies are driving data centre developments.

MAR
06

Energy Star Servers then Storage and Networks

The government has identified the data center as a great place to start increasing American energy efficiency while reducing power consumption.

MAR
05

12 tips to turn tech execs into green experts

As the recession forces companies to slash jobs right and left, one of the more secure positions is turning out to be that of Chief Sustainability Officer.

MAR
01

Our roundtable discussed energy efficiency, technological advancements, and best practices in data centers

FEB
11

Backsliding on the Green Data Center

Ask most IT executives about green technology and you’ll usually get a response touting their commitment to the cause or the accomplishments they’ve already made through things like virtualization and consolidation.

FEB
10

Advancing the green agenda

There is no doubt that IT can help reduce environmental issues in many parts of the economy.

FEB
09

Measuring and reporting data center PUE

The Green Grid, which created the power usage effectiveness (PUE) metric is the metric, is reclaiming the reins on how to measure and report it.

FEB
05

Green Grid Publishes Data Center Efficiency Metrics

No other corporate or industry group has yet been able to define scientifically—to the satisfaction of a majority of IT professionals—how to measure the performance of a data center in power usage and cooling efficiency, and also how it treats the environment with its carbon footprint.

FEB
05

Data Centre builders offer green design guide

The Green Grid consortium has announced plans to create a "top-to-bottom" design guide for building energy-efficient data centres, as well as new metrics for estimating data centre productivity.

FEB
04

The Green Grid Gets Specific With New Data Center Energy Efficiency Guidelines

The Green Grid's 2nd Annual Technical Forum was the site of some great announcements for datacenter efficiency, including new guidelines and reporting structures we've been expecting that will help datacenters find out their actual efficiency levels and report them with accuracy.

FEB
04

Green Grid plans Data Center 2.0 design guide

The Green Grid consortium announced plans Wednesday to create a "top-to-bottom" design guide for building energy-efficient data centers, as well as new metrics for estimating data center productivity.

FEB
04

Green Grid Guiding Firms to Data Center 2.0

Making data centers more energy efficient in a recession is a clear-cut decision for IT managers: cut power, save money, gain green PR. And the Green Grid organization, a trade group dedicated to reducing energy consumption of data centers, wants to help out.

FEB
04

Green Grid pitches new IT energy standard

The Green Grid, a group of IT industry leaders unveiled a new standard for measuring data center efficiency

FEB
04

The Green Grid offers new measures of datacenter efficiency

The Green Grid has had great success with an earlier measure of datacenter efficiency, called Power Usage Effectiveness, that helped determine which fraction of a facility's power budget went to running the actual hardware. Now, it's working on providing some measures of how efficiently that hardware is working.

FEB
04

Green Grid Tackles Productivity

The Green Grid is stepping up its ambitions as the group convenes its second Technical Forum today in San Jose, Calif.

JAN
26

Sun's Take on Green Datacenters in 2009

Subodh Bapat, Vice President and Distinguished Engineer at Sun Microsystems lays out a handful of topics that will shape the green datacenter movement in 2009

JAN
21

Storage Networking Industry Association Announces Green Storage Power Measurement Specification

Storage system taxonomy and idle power measurement metric to provide guidelines for standards-setting organizations, governmental agencies, and industry stakeholders

2008 Archive

DEC
18

IT leaders share green-tech predictions for 2009

With the down economy and shift in the political climate, experts foresee green IT gaining momentum in '09

DEC
16

Verizon, Green Grid Join Forces to Update International Data Centers

In 2007, Verizon consumed 9.4 billion kilowatt hours of electricity along with 60 million gallons of gasoline and diesel fuel. Since then, Verizon has worked with the Green Grid to upgrade its data centers to be more energy-efficent. Now it has cut way back on its consumption, thanks to improved workload processing and better use of storage.

DEC
10

The Green Grid: Establishing greater energy efficiency in data centers and business computing ecosystems

Until somewhat recently, electricity usage wasn’t near the top of IT concerns. In fact, the costs for running and cooling the IT infrastructure generally wasn’t even considered part of the IT budget within most organizations. For instance, server density in data centers wasn’t significant enough to create any real power management issues, and the cost of electricity was low enough to not raise concerns across organizations.

NOV
20

Green Grid Supports EU's Code of Conduct on Data Center Energy Efficiency

The Green Grid announced support for the recently-released European Commission’s Code of Conduct on Data Center Energy Efficiency.

NOV
16

Internet data centers are eating up electricity - and Big Tech is looking for a solution to the problem

Which contributes more to global warming? A) Watching a “Saturday Night Live” skit. B) Viewing a YouTube video of a skateboarding bulldog. LAURA EMBRY / Union-Tribune Candelario Rosas worked in the 4-foot crawl space designed for cooling the San Diego Supercomputer Center in La Jolla. “A” seems like the obvious answer. That big-screen TV displaying the Tina Fey rerun is obviously sucking power from the wall, while the YouTube video could be viewed on an energy-efficient laptop.

NOV
14

Green IT metrics for energy standards

A new package of standardised metrics is hoped to be in place by 2009 by the Green Grid, an organisation of IT firms searching for ways to boost the energy efficiency of data centres, it has been reported.

NOV
12

Green Grid Planning Metrics for Data Center Equipment

The Green Grid is planning to releaseÂ a new package of standardized metrics that will enable buyers to compare the energy efficiency of IT equipment used in the data center, reports BusinessGreen.

NOV
12

Green Grid aims for "miles per gallon" data centre energy metrics

New standardised metrics for measuring the energy efficiency of servers, storage systems and networking equipment could be in place from next year

OCT
30

Global Warming By Computer

Growing internet use is being driven by giant "server farms", increasing carbon emissions.

OCT
06

Green Heating, Power Needed For Green IT

Story describes one reporter's green computing experiement.

OCT
02

Google Wants $4.4 Trillion to Cut US Energy Dependence

Google announced, that by its calculations, it will take $4.4 trillion to reduce America's dependence on fossil fuel by 88% by 2030.

SEP
22

Five Ways to Reduce Data Center Server Power Consumption

Reprinted from The Green Grid.

SEP
22

The Green Grid: Establishing Greater Energy Efficiency in Data Centers

Until recently, electricity usage wasn’t near the top of IT concerns.

SEP
22

What Does "Going Green" with Information Technology Mean?

People are conscientious about being “green,” but they’re not quite sure how to go about it.

SEP
22

Data Centers Embrace The Great Outdoors

Why your big iron needs ~~Windows~~ windows.

SEP
19

Interop: Green Strategies Needed for Storage

Storage industry leaders call for metrics and best practices for businesses to use to cut down on storage energy costs, similar to what the Green Grid has begun doing for data centers.

SEP
09

35 Green IT Sources

From Dell committing itself to carbon neutrality to IBM Corp.’s new eco-consulting service, major businesses have made a dedicated shift to greening their operations in recent years.

AUG
27

TrendPoint Offers Four-Prong Attack to Greening Your Datacenter

Devising an energy budget and measuring datacenter efficiency among key strategies.

AUG
22

EDSA Offers PUE-DCiE Based Platform

Power analytics software developer EDSA announced it has released its PaladinLive PUE-DCiE Advisor, the first power analytics software program that calculates and presents power efficiency ratings using standards developed by The Green Grid.

AUG
21

The Green Grid, ASHRAE Collaborate

According to the recent announcement on ASHRAE's website, "the cooperative publication agreement between ASHRAE and The Green Grid encourages the sharing of technical information, particularly guidance regarding energy efficiency, between the two groups."

AUG
11

Going Green at Big Blue

In a bid to promote green computing, enterprise software company IBM Corp has modified its datacentre equipment to be more energy efficient.

AUG
08

Energy-Saving Initiatives

According to Socrates, real wisdom is difficult to attain. For those running a data center, it might be easier to find than you think, especially when it comes to implementing energy-saving initiatives.

JUL
18

Data Center Power Efficiency

New Standards Help You Assess Your SME's Energy Use.

JUL
01

Opinion: What the gas crisis means for your IT costs

It's when, not if, you'll be asked about improving storage energy efficiency.

JUN
20

Wipro Eco Energy to offer consultancy services

Following the launch of Eco Eye initiative, which is related to green revolution with eco-friendly activities, IT major Wipro Ltd is all set to provide consultancy services through its newly-floated arm, Wipro Eco Energy.

JUN
16

Tooling Up to Go Green

The name of the data center game these days is green, as in energy efficiency and reduced expenses.

JUN
11

Big Blue to Big Green

At its annual IBM Pulse Conference in Orlando, IBM announced new software designed to help customers around maximizing energy efficiency and reducing power and cooling costs.

JUN
04

Making the Data Center more Energy Efficient

Security platform provider Crossbeam Systems has waded into the Green IT discussion by releasing a white paper outlining steps that CIOs can take to achieve more efficient data centers by reducing the energy consumption of security-related equipment through the adoption of virtualization.

JUN
03

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