Founding sponsors of the organization, called the Green Grid, include AMD, HP, Sun Microsystems and IBM. The global organization’s goals are supported by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Alliance to Save Energy.
Members of The Green Grid seek to decrease the datacenter and other IT facility energy usage patterns by defining and propagating best practices in data center operation, as well as construction and design.
The Green Grid is intended to serve as an interactive resource for IT professionals; a forum for sharing proven practices in datacenter energy management as well as working with other organizations to identify new industry standards and metrics related to energy.
As an independent, non-profit association, The Green Grid is open to any and all IT industry professionals with an interest in addressing global energy consumption issues, particularly data center managers and IT operations executives.
Founding membership is also open to companies such as ISVs, IHVs, systems integrators and VARs, analyst firms, utility companies and anyone else concerned about energy efficiency issues in the enterprise.
Members are welcome to participate by registering online at www.TheGreenGrid.org, an independently hosted site where they will share best practices, discuss challenges, and define solutions to the increasing energy demands from IT.
The role of the sponsors will be to help enable and fund the member-driven organization. More information such as the organization’s charter should be available in the coming weeks, the organization says.
