The Green Grid, an industry initiative to advance energy
efficient datacentres, is now inviting end user companies to join
the organisation.
As firms’ data capacity needs have shot up and the power of
computer processors has rapidly increased, firms’ energy
consumption costs in datacentres have spiralled in terms of power
and cooling costs.
The Green Grid consortium has announced a board of
directors consisting of AMD, APC, Dell, HP, IBM, Intel, Microsoft,
Rackable Systems, SprayCool, Sun Microsystems, and VMware.
End users and further technology suppliers are now being
encouraged to become members of The Green Grid to help drive the
creation of platform-neutral specifications and metrics to help
make data centres more power efficient.
The Green Grid's membership structure includes Contributing and
General Member levels. General members will have access to all
technical documentation produced by The Green Grid, access to
intellectual property licensing, and opportunities to attend
events.
Contributing members will have all the above benefits and be
eligible to join technology working groups, review technology
documentation at each phase of development, and directly contribute
to shaping future consortium direction.
The organisation has also made available its first three white
papers developed by The Green Grid's technical committee. The
papers offer perspectives on data centre efficiency issues, as well
as efficiency baseline recommendations, and are targeted at CIO,
data centre administrator and facility manager audiences.
Contributor membership costs $25,000 (£13,160) a year and
general membership is $5,000 a year (£2,630).
More information can be viewed here:
http://www.thegreengrid.org/
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