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Initiative around climate conference: Green IT: Mansystems calls for new performance indicators

Call for discussion on the OpenSource platform OpenDCME.org

Saarbrücken, December 09 2009 – Within the scope of the OpenSource forum opendcme.org appeals Mansystems to CIOs, Green IT experts and IT managers to take a close look at all indicators that are generally used to measure the energy efficiency in data centers and to cooperate on the development of new and independent standards.

The background: performance indicators such as the Data Centre Infrastructure Efficiency (DCiE) or the Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) are insufficient, according to Mansystems’ experts, in fulfilling the requirement for exact efficiency measurement. They refer to the power instead of energy and neglect the individual factors such as for example seasonal temperature fluctuations respective time of the day related load-behaviour.

“Especially when we talk about energy efficiency true cooperation is the key, because CO2 savings and climate preservation are in the end only achievable through collective action. On the web-platform Mansystems publishes therefore the key performance indicator of her own comprehensive measurement model OpenDCME to be used as base for discussion for a new efficiency criteria”, explains Paul Poetsma, moderator of opendcme.org and Green-IT expert at Mansystems.

In the future, unified indicators will become more and more important and are the base for a standardized assessment of energy efficiency in data centers. At EU-level the question of energy efficiency in data centers is currently still addressed with the European Code of Conduct (CoC), which is still a voluntary agreement, today. Companies that choose to lower the energy consumption of their products or data centers within the frame of agreed upon milestones, can join the CoC. The initiative was called into life in 2007.

There are also a number of initiatives on a national level that aim at committing companies on a mid- and long term base. In the Netherlands the MJA, a multi-annual agreement between the Dutch government and the IT industry that aims increase the energy efficiency, which wants to encourage energy saving by use of tax relief. In England they are currently working on the CRC (Carbon Reduction Commitment). Once the “CO2 Emission rights” takes effect the energy costs will be raised, in order to boost the motivation to make economic activities more sustainable. With a bit of optimism it is conceivable that these approaches are soon being circulated as vast and committing circulation. On December 07, 2009 the United Nations Climate Change Conference takes place in Copenhagen. There the successor of the Kyoto-protocol o a global level to be negotiated. The outcome is still open. 

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