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Sydney, Australia – 23 July 2008 – Macquarie Hosting, a
division of Macquarie Telecom, today announced it has become a member of
The
Green Grid, a global consortium dedicated to advancing energy efficiency in
data centres and business computing environments.
Macquarie Telecom’s
participation in The Green Grid further enforces the company’s commitment to the
management of energy and power usage in the
data centre and complements the work it has carried out in its hosting
business to reduce
data centre energy consumption. Not only does Macquarie monitor its own
data centre power usage through the use of tools that measure and monitor the
impacts on power management and metrics in the Macquarie Hosting data centre,
but it also works with customers to boost energy efficiency in their own data
centres.
“Macquarie Hosting is taking a practical rather than theoretical approach to
creating an eco-friendly, energy efficient data centre,” said Aidan Tudehope,
Managing Director, Hosting, Macquarie Telecom. “We work closely with our
vendors to understand how we can maximize the ‘green effectiveness’ of their
solutions, always with our customers in mind. Our company is focused on
helping customers turn plans into actions that result in quantifiable energy
efficiency gains.”
Macquarie Hosting joins several organisations within The Green Grid
representing critical segments of the data centre ecosystem. The Green Grid
Board of Directors is comprised of the following member companies: AMD, APC,
Dell, HP, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Rackable Systems, SprayCool, Sun Microsystems
and VMware.
The Green Grid seeks to provide industry-wide recommendations on best
practices, metrics and technologies that will improve overall data centre and
business computing energy efficiencies. By joining The Green Grid, Macquarie,
is helping influence both developers and end users of
data centre technology.
For more information see:
www.macquarietelecom.com/hosting/data_centre/data_centre.htm
www.macquarietelecom.com/hosting
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