Energy efficiency non-profit touts new members, plans technical summit

By Colleen Taylor, Contributing Editor -- Electronic News, 4/11/2007

The Green Grid, a non-profit consortium aimed at advancing energy efficiency in data centers and business computing ecosystems, today announced plans for a technical summit to be held April 18 and April 19 in Denver, Colorado.

The summit, which will be the first since the organization was formed last year by a group of industry players including Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), Intel, Hewlett-Packard (HP), Sun Microsystems and IBM, is expected to produce detailed technical objectives and program plans for 2007.

"This inaugural technical summit signals the swift pace with which The Green Grid is moving to further define our technical objectives for 2007 and beyond," Bruce Shaw, director of The Green Grid, said in a statement. "Participation from the industry's leading data center efficiency experts will ensure our continued progress in helping the industry achieve greater data center energy efficiency."

According to the group, the event is designed to help The Green Grid's technical committee further define technical objectives addressing three key areas: definition and measurement of datacenter efficiency, guidance for datacenter owners and managers making decisions pertaining to datacenter architecture and planning, and guidance for datacenter owners and managers looking to improve energy efficiency during day-to-day operations.  The event will include participation from many of the new industry leaders who have joined the consortium since its formal launch, the group said.

New members to The Green Grid include:  1E Ltd., 365 Main, Active Power, Affiniti, Aperture, Azul Systems, BT plc, Brocade Communications, Chatsworth Products, Inc., Cherokee International, Cisco, ColdWatt Inc., COPAN Systems, Digital Realty Trust, Eaton, Force10 Networks, Juniper Networks, Netezza, Novell, Pillar Data Systems, Panduit Corp., QLogic, Rackspace Managed Hosting, SGI, SatCon Stationary Power Systems, Texas Instruments, The 451 Group and Vossel Solution.