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Article: Green Grid plans "Data Center 2.0" design guide.
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- Network World Middle East
- Article date:
- February 5, 2009
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Byline: jeevan@cpidubai.com (Staff)
The Green Grid consortium will announce plans Wednesday to create a "top-to-bottom" design guide for building energy-efficient data centers, as well as new metrics for estimating data center productivity.
The plans will be discussed at Green Grid's second annual conference in San Jose, California, where the consortium will also provide some advice about how to use its PUE (Power Usage Effectiveness) metric introduced last year, which provides a way to measure data center efficiency.
The consortium's members are mostly IT vendors but also include some end-user companies, such as The Walt Disney Co. and eBay. It was set up two ...