A screenshot of The Green Grid's alliances page
(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Data center efficiency organizations The Green Grid and the Open Data Center Alliance announced on Wednesday they have formed a strategic alliance where they will use The Green Grid’s IT efficiency metrics, including Carbon Usage Effectiveness.
The news of the alliance comes several months after The Green Grid issued new recommendations for measuring and reporting on energy efficiency, in collaboration with The Data Center metrics Coordination Taskforce.
The collaboration is an effort to align with ODCA’s cloud usage model requirements to deliver resource efficient computing for industry solutions.
Expected to be completed in the first half of 2012, the initial portion of the collaboration work will be to define a standard unit for measuring carbon footprint for both existing and new ODCA usage models and TGG metrics.
Through the collaboration, the two organizations will strive to accelerate the development of standards related to energy efficiency in the data center.
The group effort brings together the leading customer voice on cloud computing and the global authority on resource efficient data centers and business computing ecosystems.
The Open Data Center Alliance recently published the first customer-driven requirements for the cloud with release of its initial usage models.
Launched in 2007, The Green Grid is a global consortium focused on driving resource efficiency in business computing by developing meaningful and user-centric metrics to help IT and facilities better manage their resources.
“The Green Grid’s mission is to improve resource efficiency in business computing, which includes the impact of carbon usage as a result of cloud computing,” said Tim Mohin, AMD representative and board member of The Green Grid. “The Green Grid’s efforts with the ODCA will bring much-needed efficiency metrics and resources to businesses that leverage the cloud. We’re excited to see the results of this collaboration put into action and the energy savings they will generate.”
The two organizations expect the collaboration will yield new content and resources from each organization as well as the enhancement of existing content.
The Green Grid has also formed alliances in the past with several other IT energy efficiency organizations, including The American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers, ASP SaaS Industry Consortium, BCS, Data Center Pulse, and US Department of Energy, and US Environmental Protection Agency.
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