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Articles mentioning both Peter Judge and The Green Grid
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Open Compute - Yes it really is radical! by Peter Judge
Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (May 6 2012)
...one. You know, like the Open Group, or the Cloud Industry Forum, or even in efficient data centres, the Green Grid. These groups have an annual meeting, run a web site, and publish some specifications and white pap...
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Comment Mentions: Forrester Research Google The Green Grid
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Despite the power crunch, data centres ignore efficiency by Peter Judge
Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Mar 18 2012)
... So it looks like there is a long way to go data centers are actually walking the walk. Groups like the Green Grid still have a big job simplifying and promoting best practice, and data center managers need to pick...
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Comment Mentions: The Green Grid Peter Judge
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The Green Grid Goes More International and More Practical by Peter Judge
Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Mar 11 2012)
March is a good time for efficient data center activists. It’s the month when the Green Grid holds its annual members’ meeting, and we get a burst of useful material, advising how to use energ...
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Comment Mentions: Europe The Green Grid ASHRAE
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Modular Data Centres: Nerdy But Cool
Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Nov 16 2011) Construction , Servers
Containers got backing this week from Swedish designers and data centre nerds, says Peter Judge. How can they fail?
Modular data centres, once seen as inefficient compared compared with bespoke ......Swedish designer and been given the thumbs-up by that engaging bunch of anoraks and train-spotters, the Green Grid.
A data centre fit for Mars?
Modular Data Centres Stockholm is the brainchild of Jon Karlung, who...
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Comment Mentions: The Green Grid Facebook Peter Judge
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Green Grid Explains Economizer Findings - By Peter Judge
Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Oct 24 2011)
Last time I looked at some research the Green Grid did around the use of economizers, which provide “free air” cooling in data centers.
Economizers ...
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Comment Mentions: The Green Grid Peter Judge
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Economizer survey raises questions- by Peter Judge
Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Oct 17 2011)
There is a lot of work coming out of the Green Grid at the moment, because the industry group just had its European Tech Forum.
The Forum took place ......ials with a set of “graphic equalizer” bars. That is open to the usual criticism which has followed Green Grid measures since PUE, that it simplifies things to produces measures that can be used in marketing.
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Comment Mentions: Intel The Green Grid ASHRAE
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Green Data Centres Will Be Measured On Money
Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Oct 12 2011)
PUE and other efficiency measures are useful, but data centre owners are chasing money now, says Peter Judge
Efficient data centres have always made an effort to meet commercial needs – but I think the econo......onomics from this industry consortium of users and vendors. It’s more about the money than the tech The Green Grid has been known for the PUE measure of effiency, which has been picked up ...
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Comment Mentions: Amazon.com Sun Microsystems Google
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Green Grid Plans Online Data Centre Efficiency Tool
Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Oct 12 2011)
Users will be able to compare data centre efficiency using an online tool from the Green Grid Green Grid Plans Online Data Centre Efficiency Tool October 12, 2011 by Peter Judge greengriddcmmtop Tweet Users will be able to compare data centre efficiency using an online tool fr...
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Comment Mentions: Sun Microsystems The Green Grid Peter Judge
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the pincer move that could open up data centers - by peter judge
Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Jul 17 2011)
... available to them.,” said energy minister Greg Barker.
Finally, industry. A pressure group like the Green Grid is never going to step beyond what its vendor and user members are willing to go with, but Fujitsu’......se in the industry who back lower carbon - might just be enough to make sure it gets published.
Peter Judge is editor of eWEEKEuropeUK --> One way or another, organisations are going to have to ...
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Comment Mentions: Greenpeace Fujitsu The Green Grid
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Possible truce For Greenpeace and data centers - by Peter Judge
Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Jul 5 2011)
...shire, and Dr David Snelling of Fujitsu Labs, who is also vice chair for the technical workgroup of the Green Grid in Europe, along with analyst Andy Lawrence of The 451 Group.
The encounter started with Bitterli...
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Comment Mentions: Apple Greenpeace Europe
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Green benchmarks: The war between simple and useful
Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Jun 20 2011)
...trics have to be simple to succeed, but to become more useful, they have to get more complex.
So, the Green Grid’s great data center favourite, PUE (power usage effectiveness) wins because it is really simple. It...
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Comment Mentions: The Green Grid Facebook Peter Judge
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PAR4 - another data center metric? By peter judge
Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (May 23 2011)
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...ring data centre efficiency, along comes another one.
PUE (power usage effectiveness), defined by the Green Grid (and nowinanewversion) pretty much rules the roost in terms of measuring the overall energy efficie......easure from infrastructure management company PowerAssure that attacks the same areas.
“Neither Green Grid nor EnergyStar have a standard that factors hardware efficiency improvements into the rating and g...
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How To Use The Green Grid Maturity Model
Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Apr 6 2011)
... Harkeeret “Harqs” Singh, head of energy and sustainable technology at Thomson Reuters. How To Use The Green Grid Maturity Model April 6, 2011 by Peter Judge harkereetsingh Tweet eWEEK wasn’t sure how useful the Green Grid Maturity Model was. The Grid’s Harkeeret Singh talked us through it The Green Grid, the best-known group devoted to making data centres more efficient, announced a model earlier this...
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Comment Mentions: Europe The Green Grid LEED
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Data Centre Models In Ferment
Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Mar 10 2011) Carbon Footprint
...office, the biggest IT price pain issurvey software Data Centre Models In Ferment March 10, 2011 by Peter Judge judgesquare Tweet The Green Grid’s Maturity Model could be a useful tool, but let’s give it time to mature, says Peter Judge Anyone who sets up a measure of performance should be very careful, because people will adapt their...
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Comment Mentions: The Green Grid Uptime Institute Peter Judge
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why low pue ain't so green - by peter judge
Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Feb 1 2011)
... actual data centers, they have lower PUEs.
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All of which suggests that the Green Grid is right to bring out Carbon Usage Effectiveness (a measure of the carbon intensity of IT).
But ...
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Comment Mentions: Greenpeace The Green Grid Facebook
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Green Data Center Resolutions for 2011 - Peter Judge
Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Dec 20 2010)
...ring 2011, they multiplied. Frankly, I’m in danger of losing track. At the basic measurement level, the Green Grid has extended its PUE scheme with the CUE measure for carbon use by a data center, and is promising ...
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Comment Mentions: Europe The Green Grid ASHRAE
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Green Grid Delivers A CUE For Greener Power - By Peter Judge
Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Dec 6 2010)
I just got briefed on the Green Grid’s new measurement for the carbon emissions associated with data centers, and I think CUE could be a......can be compared with other data centers would be even harder.
“We actually have a program between Green Grid and the Pacific North West National Lab, taking our productivity metric as a baseline metric,” he s...
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Comment Mentions: Greenpeace Verne Global The Green Grid
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Data Centre Carbon Counting – Could It Cool The Arguments?
Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Dec 2 2010) Fossil Fuel , Servers
When Facebook fell out with Greenpeace over coal-fired power, the new Green Grid measurement might have helped sort things out, says Peter Judge. Arguments about data centre power took a nasty turn earlier this year.
Facebook announced it had ...
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Comment Mentions: Greenpeace The Green Grid Facebook
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Green Grid Starts To Measure Data Centre Carbon Use
Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Dec 2 2010) Monitoring , Carbon Tax , Emissions , Servers
...missions produced by the energy they use, whether that is produced on-site or by utility companies. Green Grid Starts To Measure Data Centre Carbon Use December 2, 2010 by Peter Judge green-data-centre-2 Alongside PUE to measure power efficiency, the Green Grid now has CUE to measure carbon use A new measurement, CUE, defined by industry alliance The Green Grid, rates the carbon emissions produced by data centres. The Grid, whose ...
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Efficiency Benchmarks: Could Storage Show Us How? by Peter Judge
Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Oct 18 2010)
...re energy efficiency in data centers which may be carrying out different jobs in different ways?
The Green Grid’s Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) takes a top-down approach. It simply addresses the efficiency wi...
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Comment Mentions: The Green Grid Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Peter Judge
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Doing The Math (or "HUE, PUE, Barney McGrew...") - by Peter Judge
Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (May 24 2010)
Comment "I love your reference to the fireman's roll call . . . adds some levity to fairly heavy math. You've ..." - Jamie
... PUE, but use its reciprocal instead:
DCIE, or Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency, as defined by the Green Grid is the energy used by the IT equipment
divided by the total energy.
But how efficient
is the IT ...
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Google Leads Criticism Of Green Data Centre Rules
Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Apr 16 2010) Servers
...tre Rules Vote 0 Moves to require free-air cooling have got data centre operators overheated * By: Peter Judge * April 16, 2010 Add to digg Add to Facebook Add to LinkedIn Add to reddit Add to Slashdot Add to S......” Results-based measurements include Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) - a simple measure promoted by the Green Grid, which was adopted by several international bodies including the European Union earlier this month....
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Comment Mentions: Nokia Google The Green Grid
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The rise and fall of PUE - By Peter Judge
Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Apr 12 2010)
...dily
applied and understood, and that is the basis on which PUE is being put
forward, originally by the Green Grid, and now by the whole industry. Plenty of
people have pointed out difficulties with the measurement...
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Comment Mentions: Iceland The Green Grid Department of Energy
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