Turning your Servers green

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MI Summary

Full article: Turning your Servers green

IBM, HP, Sun and AMD have launched The Green Grid, a non-profit consortium which aims to cut energy consumption at computer data centres by encouraging power-saving measures.

Text of Article

IBM, HP, Sun and AMD have united to launch the Green Grid (www.thegreengrid.org), a non-profit global consortium which aims to cut energy consumption at computer data centres by encouraging and improving power-saving measures. The alliance says that energy efficiency in data centres is the single biggest issue facing technology providers and their customers today. As a result, it has released three White Papers that directly focusing on cutting energy use. These include:

• The Green Grid Opportunity,
• Guidelines for Energy Efficient Data Centers, and
• The Green Grid Metrics: Describing Data Center Power Efficiency.

For details of IBM and the Green Grid, read Green IT: the next burning issue for business at http://www.ibm.com/businesscenter/uk/thinktank

• Source: ThinkTank issue 1

For an overview on the topic(s), see also

• IBM and the Environment