TrendPoint’s Four-Point “Green Data Center” Plan

By Liam Eagle, theWHIR.com

We received a very long press release this week from TrendPoint Systems, a company that produces a “turn-key data center energy management solution.”

It’s not a company we’re especially familiar with at the WHIR, but with TrendPoint’s fairly singular focus on data center energy efficiency and carbon monitoring, it’s an organization that ought to be thoroughly on the radar of the hosting business.

Along with its TrendOne, EnerSure and EnviroCube products, which are generally hardware offerings designed to monitor environmental conditions and energy efficiency in enterprise data centers, the company appears to be actively publishing white papers on the general subject of data center efficiency, which makes it especially relevant to just about anyone operating a data center.

I know at the WHIR, we’ve got a pretty heavy appetite for published “green data center” information at the moment. (more…)

Tags: data center, energy efficiency, heating and cooling, TrendPoint Systems, virtualization

Promise Technology Joins Green Grid

By Justin Lee, theWHIR.com

August 27, 2008 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Data center storage technologies provider Promise Technology (promise.com) announced on Wednesday it has joined The Green Grid (thegreengrid.org), a global organization dedicated to advancing energy efficiency in data centers and business computing ecosystems.
 
The Green Grid strives to promote the adoption of energy efficient standards, processes, measurements and technologies. The organization is comprised of an interactive body of members who share and improve current best practices around data center efficiency.

By joining The Green Grid, Promise Technology is helping influence both developers and end users of data center technology.

News of Promise Technology joining The Green Grid marks the latest in a series of recent membership announcements for the global organization, including ASHRAE, AT&T Services, and STRATO. (more…)

Tags: Promise Technology, storage, The Green Grid

RichardsoNEyres Issues Green Study

By Justin Lee, theWHIR.com

August 26, 2008 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Data center infrastructure provider RichardsoNEyres (richardsoneyres.co.uk) announced on Tuesday it released new research that reveal that many data center operators are not taking green issues seriously enough and are adopting a do-it-yourself approach.

Conducted in association with industry analysts IDL, the RichardsoNEyres report highlights the main data center challenges IT managers are currently facing and includes a six-step action plan to help businesses overcome these issues.

The challenges start with a infrastructure and data center review in an effort to devise an action plan to simultaneously reduce cost, improve performance and reduce environmental impact. (more…)

Tags: emissions, Energy Star, IDL, RichardsoNEyres, virtualization

CommVault Joins The Green Grid

By David Hamilton, theWHIR.com

August 25, 2008 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Data management software and service provider CommVault (commvault.com) has joined The Green Grid (thegreengrid.org), a global organization committed to improve data center and business computing energy efficiency.

Open to IT professionals with an interest in addressing global energy consumption issues, The Green Grid was created in early 2007 to develop industry-wide standards, measuring methods, processes and new technologies to improve the energy efficiency of data center and business computing.

According to the announcement from New Jersey-based CommVault, its Simpana 7.0 software suite “helps customers implement sustainable ‘Green’ data center strategies,” demonstrating CommVault’s commitment to developing more energy efficient data centers. Simpana includes application modules for Data Protection, Archiving, Replication, Resource Management and Searching capabilities. (more…)

Tags: CommVault, energy efficiency, The Green Grid

EDSA Offers PUE-DCiE-Based Platform

By Justin Lee, theWHIR.com

August 22, 2008 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Power analytics software developer EDSA announced on Thursday 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.

The Green Grid is a global organization that strives to advance energy efficiency in data centers and business computing ecosystems through developing and promoting standards, measurement methods, processes and new technologies to improve data center performance against the defined metrics.

The organization is comprised of about 200 leading technology organizations, including Dell, IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Cisco, Intel, Microsoft, and most recently, AT&T Services. (more…)

Tags: data center, EDSA, energy efficiency, The Green Grid

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