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Heather ClancyGreen Grid prepping new efficiency estimator, power calculator
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The Green Grid publishes updated tools for measuring energy efficiency, highlights best practices in several new publications.
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Heather Clancy
Heather Clancy is an award-winning business journalist with a passion for green technology and corporate sustainability issues. Her articles have appeared in Entrepreneur, Fortune Small Business, The International Herald Tribune and The New York Times. In a past corporate life, Heather was editor of Computer Reseller News, where she was a featured speaker about everything from software as a service to IT security to mobile computing.
Heather started her journalism life as a business writer with United Press International in New York. She holds a B.A. in English literature from McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, and has a thing for Lewis Carroll.
So, I’m hoping most people reading this blog on any kind of regular basis know who, actually I should say what, Green Grid is. But just in case you’re unfamiliar with the group, it is an organization that focuses on best practices and tools that could help improve the energy efficiency of business computing technologies and, in particular, data centers. The group also is cozying up now officially with Data Center Pulse, in order to beef up its perspective.
The Green Grid’s third annual member meeting is this week, and it has been working on some new free online tools it will make available not just to members but to other interested parties in the coming months. Those new resources include:
- A new Power Efficiency Estimator that will take into account addition factors such as workloads, available requirements, space constraints and other real world considerations that might alternate an energy efficiency equation. The new estimator is supposed to go live by the end of the first quarter, according to Green Grid board member Kathrin Winkler, who is the senior director of corporate sustainability for EMC.
- The estimator is NOT to be confused with a new calculator for power usage effectiveness (PUE), a metric that was originally created by the Green Grid to express the relationship between a data center’s IT equipment and the equipment needed to keep things cool and otherwise acclimatized. This tool, too, will be available at the end of the first quarter. Two things of particular note here are the fact this the calculator will now account for the container-type data center modules that are being sold by several companies AND it will also be available to the public, not just to Green Grid members.
Here’s what it looks like:
If you’re looking for some not-so-light reading, the Green Grid has published a white paper discussing the impact of virtualization on physical data center metrics and it also has posted some sample chapters and an outline for the forthcoming data center design guide, for which it is soliciting member comment. The organization has also teamed up with the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-conditioning Engineers (aka ASHRAE) to publish a booked called, “Real Time Energy Consumption Measurements in Data Centers.” If you’re a Green Grid member, you can get the book at this link. Otherwise, it is available for $54.
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Heather Clancy is an award-winning business journalist with a passion for green technology and corporate sustainability issues.
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Writing publicly about what the high-tech industry is actually doing to help itself and the world get greener or more sustainable is one way I figure I can contribute more meaningfully to said effort. I�m also a big OMG-kind-of-fan of smart leadership, which is why the goodly folks who publish this blog let me go on about this topic and why I am always on the hunt for forward-looking business management ideas.
My daily writing is focused on looking for topics for my blogs, GreenTech Pastures and Business Brains. I also write often about emerging technology trends such as mobile computing, unified communications and cloud computing. Occasionally, I will pop up at an industry conference in some sort of speaking capacity. In cases where a speaking engagement involves a sponsor that may be covered in this blog, that fact will be disclosed in coverage as appropriate.
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Biography
Heather Clancy
Heather Clancy is an award-winning business journalist with a passion for green technology and corporate sustainability issues. Her articles have appeared in Entrepreneur, Fortune Small Business, The International Herald Tribune and The New York Times. In a past corporate life, Heather was editor of Computer Reseller News, where she was a featured speaker about everything from software as a service to IT security to mobile computing.
Heather started her journalism life as a business writer with United Press International in New York. She holds a B.A. in English literature from McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, and has a thing for Lewis Carroll.
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