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Data Center Pulse Establishes Collaborative Relationship with The Green Grid
Data Center Pulse continues toward their goal of influencing the datacenter industry through their exclusive, global end user community.
UNION CITY, CA, January 15, 2010 - Today, Data Center Pulse entered into an agreement with The Green Grid to further enhance their ability to influence the industry via collaboration on Data Center challenges.
The Green Grid is a global consortium dedicated to developing and promoting energy efficiency for data centers and business computing systems. They have amassed a rich mixture of manufacturers, service providers, and end user members representing over 175 global companies.
Data Center Pulse is a global end user community of Data Center owners and operators focused on influencing the industry through the eyes of the customer. DCP is an exclusive end-user only group with over 1350 members in 55 countries touching over 100 industries. They have the ability to reach a significant population of Data Center customers ranging from single rack to some of the largest Data Centers in the world.
This new relationship will enable The Green Grid to quickly and effectively reach a significant end user population to help validate and direct their overall efficiency and standards work. It will also allow Data Center Pulse members to have a direct conduit into the important work that The Green Grid is leading.
"This relationship allows Data Center Pulse to continue on their mission to influence the industry through the consumers of Data Center products and services while maintaining the anonymity of our members.", said Dean Nelson Chairman and co-founder of DCP. "Our focus is to drive efficiency and performance gains in the Data Center because we are the customers. This relationship will accelerate that agenda, ultimately helping Data Center users and the industry as a whole."
"We are pleased to build the relationship with Data Center Pulse." said Kathrin Winkler, a director of The Green Grid. "When we started exploring the opportunities, we realized that our efforts were complimentary. We expect our relationship to accelerate the work each organization is pursuing and also to strengthen our output with a larger audience of end users participating and validating our energy efficiency efforts."
The Green Grid has an established Advisory Council (AC) made up of end users from eight of their primary member companies. This includes AT&T, eBay, Strato, Tokyo Electric Power Company, ADP, Nationwide, Walt Disney and Verizon. It was established to advise the board of directors on direction and strategy, to actively participate in technical committees, drive greater awareness of the Green Grid within the community, and guide and shape published materials and processes as one unified voice.
"The Advisory Council will be the conduit for the Data Center Pulse relationship", said Jeannie Diefenderfer, AC Chair, "This relationship greatly augments our reach to end users, including non-green grid members. It will help us deliver on the AC charter."
For more information email info@datacenterpulse.org.
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- To learn about becoming a member of The Green Grid (Click Here)
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