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SNIA Forms Alliance With The Green Grid

For metrics, standards, education and best practices

The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) has formed an alliance with The Green Grid. The SNIA and its
Green Storage Initiative (GSI) plan to work with The Green Grid in
developing and promoting standards, measurement methods, processes and
technologies to improve overall data center energy efficiencies.


"Tackling the challenges associated with energy efficiency and green
computing will require collaboration across all areas of the IT
industry
," said Vincent Franceschini, Chair of the SNIA. "Storage plays
an important role in power and energy efficiency within data centers
and business computing ecosystems. With that, the SNIA’s Green Storage
Initiative is dedicated to applying the technical and educational
expertise of the storage industry to the broader view of the data
center to collaborate, develop and find more energy efficient solutions
for the IT industry
."

Sharing common objectives on the need to develop energy efficient
metrics, best practices and education, the new alliance will enable the
delivery of a complete and consistent set of information that benefits
IT data centers and government bodies such as the United States
Department of Energy, the Environmental Protection Agency and other
regional and global agencies that have data center and computer
equipment energy efficiency programs. This collaboration will leverage
SNIA expertise in networked storage and The Green Grid expertise in
data centers and business computing ecosystems.

"Within the IT industry, there are a number of professionals who are
responsible for data center functionality from CIOs and IT managers to
heating and cooling experts. It is imperative that we look at the
energy efficiency issue from a single, united point of view,
" said Mark
Monroe, director of The Green Grid. "Together we can leverage each
other’s core expertise and areas of focus to deliver a holistic and
complete approach for an energy efficient data center
."

The two associations plan to collaborate on energy efficiency and
metrics, whereby the SNIA will focus on networked storage and
information management while The Green Grid focuses on computer
servers, data center infrastructure, the data center and business
computing ecosystems. The management of networked storage with SNIA’s
Storage Management Initiative-Specification is a foundation for energy
efficient storage best practices such as Information Lifecycle
Management, consolidation, deduplication and thin provisioning. The
Green Grid’s best practices include cooling (hot and cold aisles),
virtualization and server throttling. Both associations will
collaborate on educating the industry through events, whitepapers and
demonstrations.

The Green Grid

Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA)

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