Data Center Life Cycle Assessment Guidelines: A Webcast for Members of The Green Grid</h1> <article> <h1>Data Center Life Cycle Assessment Guidelines: A Webcast for Members of The Green Grid</h1> <p>Fri, 27 Apr 2012 06:02:00 GMT</p> <p>Environmental impact, also called environmental footprint, of products and organizations is becoming a major topic driven by the need of customer information, policy makers, and compliance towards regulation. Standards organizations, industry consortia, and regulatory bodies develop tools with the same goal: assessing the environmental impact of the product or the organization. However, each tool has its own specific interest range, life cycle stages, product ranges, and sometimes its own particular requirements. <br /><br />Most of these methodologies for assessing environmental impacts can apply to a data center. The objective of The Green Grid aims to provide the industry with a framework and rules to describe the specificities of a data center so that all the different methodologies can at least evaluate a data center in the same way. This common framework is intended to be used by owners, renters, and users of data centers in order to harmonize environmental studies.</p> </article> <article> <h1>The Green Grid Connection August 2011</h1> <p>Thu, 19 Apr 2012 15:12:00 GMT</p> <p>Highlights include: New Membership and Participation Opportunities, DCLA Webcast, Zeydy Ortiz Key Contributor Award, and the Mark Aggar Participant Feature.</p> </article> <article> <h1>The Green Grid Connection August 2011</h1> <p>Thu, 22 Mar 2012 07:00:00 GMT</p> <p>Highlights include: New 2012 Forum Releases, DCMM Academy Course, 2011 Key Contributor Awards, and the Jim Woodbury Participant Feature.</p> </article> <article> <h1>Keynote - A Brief History of the Future of Information Factories: Or What Has Your Data Center Done For You Lately?</h1> <p>Wed, 07 Mar 2012 08:00:00 GMT</p> <p>This session presents a wide-ranging view of the impact that data centers are just beginning to have on society and business. Covering eons of information development in one hour, this session will identify key trends that will impact data centers, as well as discuss the reasons why data center mavericks must help rewrite the laws of economics with solutions that are business-wise and future-driven.</p> </article> <article> <h1>Survey Results: Energy Efficiency of Japanese Data Centers; Japanese Data Centers: How They Kept Running Even After the Earthquake</h1> <p>Wed, 07 Mar 2012 08:00:00 GMT</p> <p> <i>Survey Results: Energy Efficiency of Japanese Data Centers </i> During this session, The Green IT Promotion Council (GPIC) will review the results of the 2012 and 2011 survey on Energy Efficiency of Japanese Data Centers conducted by The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) of Japan. The survey included data centers in Singapore and Vietnam, and measured not only energy efficiency in facilities, but also energy productivity of IT equipment in data centers. As a result of collaboration with The Green Grid, GPIC has developed a holistic approach to viewing energy efficiency in data centers. <br /><br /> <i> Japanese Data Centers: How they kept running even after the earthquake</i> Although the March 2011 earthquakes struck a wide area of eastern Japan, data centers and its related industry showed impressive continuity of operations and business. This session will explain the real events seen and experienced by the actual data center business operator, sharing lessons learned, while introducing unique anti-disaster technology developed and adopted by Japanese data center operators. The remainder of the session will focus on the opportunities and potential of Japanese data centers in terms of its market status with energy efficient-technology widely used in Japanese data centers. In addition, some Japan Data Center Council (JDCC) activities example (sub working group) will be presented.</p> </article> </main></body></html>