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The Green Grid is a global consortium dedicated to advancing energy efficiency in data centers and business computing ecosystems. In furtherance of its mission, The Green Grid is focused on the following: defining meaningful, user-centric models and metrics; developing standards, measurement methods, processes and new technologies to improve data center performance against the defined metrics; and promoting the adoption of energy efficient standards, processes, measurements and technologies. Comprised of an interactive body of members who share and improve current best practices around data center efficiency, The Green Grid’s scope includes collaboration with end users and government organizations worldwide to ensure that each organizational goal is aligned with both developers and users of data center technology. All interested parties are encouraged to join and become active participants. The Green Grid Board of Directors is comprised of the following member companies: AMD, APC, Dell, HP, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Rackable Systems, Sun Microsystems and VMware.

Companies often have multiple local or regional data centers that have emerged over a period of time, and the upkeep of these data centers can be both expensive and inefficient. Also, the sprawl of data centers leaves it open often to security risks. By consolidating these facilities, businesses can cut out costs as well as redundancies, by shrinking server, application and storage space, and making day-to-day management and upkeep of the data centers much easier.

The multiple data centers thus need to be consolidated into a handful of globalized or centralized elements. Infrastructure also needs to be consolidated within these facilities, and applications rationalized and migrated as part of the overall strategy. This redesign can often prove confusing and expensive, but businesses can watch out for a few points to ensure that the consolidation is both cost-effective and worthwhile.

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