{"id":2644,"date":"2011-12-22T07:00:43","date_gmt":"2011-12-22T15:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.formtek.com\/blog\/?p=2644"},"modified":"2011-12-22T07:00:43","modified_gmt":"2011-12-22T15:00:43","slug":"cloud-computing-cloud-standard-alliances-unite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/cloud-computing-cloud-standard-alliances-unite\/","title":{"rendered":"Cloud Computing: Cloud-Standard Alliances Unite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a title=\"The Open Data Center Alliance\" href=\"http:\/\/www.opendatacenteralliance.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Open Data Center Alliance<\/a> (<a title=\"Open Data Center Alliance\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Open_Data_Center_Alliance\" target=\"_blank\">ODCA<\/a>) and <a title=\"The Green Grid\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thegreengrid.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Green Grid<\/a> (<a title=\"The Green Grid\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Green_Grid\" target=\"_blank\">TGG<\/a>) alliance have <a title=\"TGG and The ODCA announce joint cooperation with cloud data center standards\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/blog\/datacenter\/the-green-grid-and-open-data-center-alliance-join-forces\/1092\" target=\"_blank\">announced <\/a>that they&#8217;re joining forces in their efforts to create standards for the cloud.<\/p>\n<p>The Green Grid is a non-profit, open industry consortium of end-users, policy-makers, technology providers, facility architects, and utility companies collaborating to improve the resource efficiency of data centers and business computing ecosystems. \u00a0 The Green Grid is trying to create a set of metrics for power, cooling, and space as related to the efficient operation of data centers. \u00a0Their metrics have helped many operators in designing, building and running more efficient facilities. \u00a0It makes sense that the ODCA would team with the TGG. \u00a0The TGG has been working on the problem of data center efficiencies for some time and has generated several generations of standards in this area.<\/p>\n<p>In particular, the two groups will collaborate on Carbon Usage Effectiveness (CUE) metric developed by The Green Grid\u2019s which\u00a0addresses data center-specific carbon emissions. \u00a0The joint collaboration is expected to complete sometime in the first part of 2012.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Marion Mueller bio\" href=\"http:\/\/agendabuilder.gartner.com\/agendabuildersuite\/webpages\/SessionList.aspx?Speaker=702293\" target=\"_blank\">Mario Mueller<\/a>, vice president of IT Infrastructure at BMW, <a title=\"Mario Mueller on the the ODC and TGG alliance\" href=\"http:\/\/www.businesswire.com\/news\/home\/20111107006808\/en\/Green-Grid-Open-Data-Center-Alliance-Form\" target=\"_blank\">said <\/a>that &#8220;Together, the ODCA and The Green Grid will drive initiatives that not only manage power efficiencies, but result in a reduced total cost of ownership. 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