Green Grid's new guidelines

The Green Grid revealed its new data centre energy efficiency reporting guidelines and Data Centre 2.0 program at its second annual technical forum, states Environmental Leader.

The new Data Centre 2.0 program was started to provide the industry with a multi-year set of design guides for data centre operators and designers to build and operate energy-efficient data centres.

The design guides will provide principles and guidelines for use in both new data centre designs and retrofits. In addition to the design guide, the Data Centre 2.0 program will include a recognition program for end-users reporting their PUE or DCiE measurements.

SiCortex is trying to bring the benefits of high-performance computing to smaller enterprises and research groups, particularly those worried about the rising cost of electricity, reports Network World.

Competing against the likes of Dell, HP and IBM, SiCortex officials hope their approach, which combines high-performance computing with energy-efficient design, is disruptive enough to shake up what they believe has become a stagnant market.

"This is a systems company, and it's been a long time since anybody actually built and deployed a systems company," says chief engineer and co-founder Matt Reilly.

IBM is working with Religare Enterprises to build three energy-efficient data centres for the financial services firm and help it reduce power costs by more than a third each year, says Greener Buildings.

Religare Enterprises (REL) is a financial services firm in India that figures prominently in the country's equity and securities market. REL is planning for significant growth and the data centres are being designed for enhanced efficiency as well as scalability to keep pace with the firm's expansion.

Under an agreement announced this week, IBM, through its Project Big Green unit, is designing and building data centres for REL in Delhi, Noida and Mumbai.