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.

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

Whitepaper: The Green Grid Peer Review of “DC Power for Improved Data Center Efficiency”

As the demands on data centers increase, creating higher costs and power usage, the industry is looking for ways to increase efficiency and decrease operating costs in the data center. One potential area of increased efficiency lies in the power distribution configuration within the data center and its IT equipment. In early 2007, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) posted results of a direct current (DC) demonstration project, which operated from June to August of 2006. Here, a peer review of that study is provided, including a critical review of the results as well as a discussion of next steps in the evaluation of this and other power distribution topologies.

Source: The Green Grid

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Tags: "data center power efficiency", "lawrence berkeley", The Green Grid

Whitepaper: The Green Grid Data Center Power Efficiency Metrics: PUE and DCiE

The Green Grid is an association of IT professionals seeking to dramatically raise the energy efficiency of data centers through a series of short-term and long-term proposals. This is an update to the very first white paper published by the Green Grid in February 2007 called “Green Grid Metrics: Describing Data Center Power Efficiency” to refine the nomenclature and intent of that paper. In that paper, The Green Grid proposed the use of Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) and its reciprocal, Data Center Efficiency (DCE) metrics, which enable data center operators to quickly estimate the energy efficiency of their data centers, compare the results against other data centers, and determine if any energy efficiency improvements need to be made. Since then, PUE has received broad adoption in the industry but DCE has had limited success due to the misconception of what data center efficiency really means. As a result, this paper reaffirms the use of PUE but redefines its reciprocal as data center infrastructure efficiency (DCiE). This refinement will avoid much of the confusion around DCE and will now be called DCiE.

Source: The Green Grid

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Tags: data center efficiency, dce, pue, The Green Grid

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