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How clean is your cloud?

...managers should report their CUE (carbon usage effectiveness), which was adopted by the Green Grid over a year ago, in addition to PUE. This means... Read more

23 April, 2012

One year on

...leading standard bodies including the Cloud Security Alliance, the Open Compute Project, the Green Grid and the Distributed Management Task Force. By any measure the... Read more

19 December, 2011

APC pumps fresh air into datacentres

...achieve a PUE -- that's power usage effectiveness, a metric invented by the Green Grid industry consortium -- of 1.3 at a 40 percent load... Read more

15 November, 2010

Who tops the Greenpeace Cool IT leaderboard?

...a long way to go. I've been following the work of The Green Grid , a group of IT firms in the data centre/server... Read more

2 September, 2010

Tech vendors line up for Green Grid

The Green Grid is gathering momentum with more technology suppliers lining up to... Read more

12 April, 2007 by Colin Barker
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The Green Grid

The presenter of this webcast explains how The Green Grid, a global consortium dedicated to developing and promoting energy efficiency... Read more

17 April, 2009

Group agrees global metric for datacentre efficiency

...Agency and Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, along with the Green Grid — a datacentre industry consortium that includes heavyweights like HP, Dell... Read more

7 April, 2010 by Richard Thurston

Novell joins the green gang

Novell has become the latest vendor to sign-up to the Green Grid - a gang of supposedly environmentally minded tech companies that are... Read more

12 April, 2007

Intel left out of environmental IT effort

AMD, HP, Sun and IBM announced the Green Grid project on Wednesday to help computing customers reduce energy consumption... Read more

20 April, 2006 by Stephen Shankland
Proxy Proposals for Measuring Data Center Productivity

Proxy Proposals for Measuring Data Center Productivity

The Green Grid is proposing that a simple indicator, or proxy, while less... Read more

14 January, 2009
Seven Strategies to Improve Data Center Cooling Efficiency

Seven Strategies to Improve Data Center Cooling Efficiency

In 2007, the Technology and Strategy Work Group of The Green Grid consortium established a system architecture Task Force to investigate and... Read more

21 October, 2008
Green Grid Metrics: Describing Datacenter Power Efficiency

Green Grid Metrics: Describing Datacenter Power Efficiency

The Green Grid is an association of IT professionals seeking to dramatically raise... Read more

20 February, 2007
GO GREEN IT Resource Kit

GO GREEN IT Resource Kit

The GO GREEN IT Resource Kit, by The Green Grid, is a comprehensive source for IT professionals to get eco... Read more

16 February, 2007
Google lifts the lid on its once-secret server

Google lifts the lid on its once-secret server

...a standard called power-usage effectiveness. PUE, developed by a consortium called the Green Grid, measures how much power goes directly to computing compared to... Read more

3 April, 2009 by Stephen Shankland

Tech execs: Green datacentres are crucial

...Jayaram said his company is also teaming up with coalitions such as the Green Grid to advance energy efficiency in datacentres. Cisco is particularly concerned... Read more

10 September, 2008 by Stefanie Olsen

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Thomas Gellhaus

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knapper

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JohneKerr

I think that we have been here before, shipments are not equal to sales. Correct?

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yeah! all we want free software

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Just gimme a map to the fridge. :D

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itsajob

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Paul Smyth

Is this classic FUD? One thing I would definitely have notice is a Mozilla threat to stop supporting GNU/Linux.

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UnderINK

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Jason Burchell

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