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2010 Archive

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

The Green Grid

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.


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

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 release 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

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

10 Server Room Must-Haves

Last week, voting wrapped up for the Third Annual ServerWatch Product Excellence Awards. The anticipation has been building for a week, but we can now bring you the results.


JUN
03

The Green Grid Expands Operations to Asia with New Presence in Japan

The Green Grid Japanese member companies include:, Fujitsu Ltd., Hitachi, Ltd., Internet Initiative Japan Inc., ITOCHU Techno-Solutions Corp. and NEC Corp.


MAY
23

Green Grid Hires PN to Expand Its Global Scope

The Green Grid selected Porter Novelli as its global AOR as the organization expands its international scope and focuses on internal communications.


MAY
21

EPA Seeking Facilities for Standard

Environmental watchdog group, the US Environmental Protection Agency, is hoping to accredit data centers Energy Star certification for energy use efficiency, but says it first requires more information to define measurements.


MAY
18

Lack of industry standards slowing green datacenter initiatives

According to the results of a recent Digital Realty Trust survey of senior decision makers at leading North American corporations, respondents expressed concern about the lack of industry standards for green datacenters.


MAY
15

Greener IT Means Benchmarking

Green IT is about retooling business processes and the ICT environment to reduce energy consumption and tthe organisation's carbon footprint.


MAY
14

Systematic Analysis 'Needed for Power Assessment'

When assessing power usage in data centres, a systematic approach is required, according to The Green Grid.


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