Emailing "The Green Grid's Data Center 2.0"
My, how you've grown!
With a membership that's a Who's Who of big IT and
nearly two solid years behind them,
The Green Grid is starting off 2009 with some ambitious initiatives. Chief among them, for CIOs and IT managers is Data Center 2.0. The program is the culmination of the datacenter design research that the group has been pursuing.
The CIO Update crew writes:
At the forum, leaders of the organization announced plans for the new Data Center 2.0 program. This initiative will provide the industry with a multi-year set of design guides proposed for use by data center operators and designers to build and operate energy efficient data centers. The design guides will provide principles and guidelines for use in both new data center designs and or retrofits. In addition to the design guide, The Data Center 2.0 program will also include a recognition program for end-users reporting their PUE or DCiE measurements within the stated guidelines.
“The data center is comprised of highly complex systems, and while multiple technical designs and best practice documents exist within the industry, there is not a single authoritative source taking a holistic approach to data center designs and moving the data center as a whole forward,” said Jim Pappas, a director of The Green Grid and director of initiative marketing in Intel's Server Platforms Group, in a press release. “With the Data Center 2.0 initiative, The Green Grid will spearhead the effort to create an industry accepted design guide to optimize data center efficiency.”
And as has become the norm for the group, they have a slew of new whitepapers, which all kidding aside, are a treasure trove of info for organizations struggling to make the leap to power efficient IT operations. They're also prepping The Green Grid Academy, so stay tuned for that.
Read the CIO Update article to get the full scoop.