GreenIT links round up

Green IT links round up, classified by category (read entire post to get content):

• Information
• Blog
• Metrics  certifactions
• Manufacturers

More to come…

Information

French links:
http://www.01net.com/rubrique/4893.html
http://www.greenit.fr/
http://greenit.lemondeinformatique.fr/

English:

http://www.datacenterknowledge.com

Blog

• Perspectives by James Hamilton

Metrics / Certifications

• PUE & DCiE (metrics) documented at The Green Grid : http://www.thegreengrid.org/gg_content/TGG_Data_Center_Power_Efficiency_Metrics_PUE_and_DCiE.pdf

PUE is an emerging standard promoted by The Green Grid and others in the data center industry to provide a consistent way to measure the ratio of power delivered to IT equipment versus the total amount of power used by the facility. PUE allows data center managers to calculate how much power is driving the actual IT equipment versus non-IT elements such as cooling and lighting — Datacenter knowledge

• LEED Certification : List of certified
  Information about LEED : US Green Building Council
• Carbon Neutral : http://www.thegreenoffice.com/cnr/47kgqr3/

• European Code of Conduct on Data Centres Energy Efficiency, version 1 : pdf version here, host page here.  Damn, the page is ugly the url to find it is only for initiated, but the press coverage for it was really huge, as they adopted The Green Grid’s PUE and DCiE metrics.  Green Grid announcement in PDF, Article in French and one in English.
• Energy Star
• The 80 Plus Program (Power Supply Unit standard)

Manufacturers

Google (AVg PUE 1,21, min 1,13)

• Boat datacenter patent : http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PG01&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=%2220080209234%22.PGNR.&OS=DN/20080209234&RS=DN/20080209234
• Google Datacenters : http://www.google.com/corporate/datacenters/

Sun (PUE 1.28 in Santa Clara Datacenter)

• Eco Responsibility : http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/environment/green/datacenter.jsp
• Santa Clara Datacenter history related and presented by Geekism : http://blogs.sun.com/geekism/
• http://blogs.sun.com/MartinHardee/date/20070831

IBM (PUE ?)

• fr : http://www.01net.com/editorial/397666/visite-au-coeur-du-premier-centre-de-donnees-vert-d-ibm-en-france/

Microsoft (targeted PUE by 2012 : 1.125)

• Datacenter containers PUE : 1.22
  Container Datacenter : http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2008/12/02/microsoft-goes-all-in-on-container-data-centers/
• Gen 4 Modular Datacenters (containers) : http://loosebolts.wordpress.com/2008/12/02/our-vision-for-generation-4-modular-data-centers-one-way-of-getting-it-just-right/
• http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2008/12/02/microsoft-goes-all-in-on-container-data-centers/

Dreamhost

• http://www.dreamhost.com/aboutus-green.html