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

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

The Green Grid, ASHRAE Collaborate

By Anastasia Tubanos, theWHIR.com

August 21, 2008 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — The Green Grid (thegreengrid.org), a global consortium dedicated to advancing energy efficiency in data centers and business computing ecosystems, announced on Wednesday that it will be working with the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ashrae.org), or ASHRAE, to produce documents providing guidance on data center design.
 
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.”

The Green Grid works to provide industry wide recommendations and best practices on metrics and technologies that will improve energy efficiency in data centers around the world.

The organization already has a growing database of white papers and this new collaborative effort with ASHRAE will help to expand The Green Grid’s catalog of “green” information.

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Tags: ASHRAE, cooling, data center, energy efficiency, The Green Grid

Extreme Networks Joins Green Grid

By Justin Lee, theWHIR.com

August 13, 2008 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Extreme Networks (extremenetworks.com) announced on Wednesday it has joined The Green Grid (thegreengrid.org), a non-profit organization that promotes the adoption of energy efficient standards, processes, measurements and technologies within data centers.
 
The Green Grid is a global organization that strives to advance energy efficiency in data centers and business computing ecosystems.

The organization collaborates with other industry groups and government organizations around the world to ensure that each organizational goal is aligned with both developers and users of data center technology.

(more…)

Tags: data center, energy, Extreme Networks, The Green Grid

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