Macquarie Hosting Joins the Green Grid
Macquarie Hosting, a division of Macquarie Telecom, has joined The Green Grid, a global consortium dedicated to advancing energy efficiency in data centres and business computing environments. Green Grid has close to 200 member companies, including 11 founding members (AMD, APC, Dell, HP, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Rackable Systems, SprayCool, Sun Microsystems and VMWare), who also formed the Board of Directors.
“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.
According to Macquarie, the company now monitors its own data centre power usage through the use of tools that measure power management and metrics in its hosting centres, as well as work with customers to boost energy efficiency.
“We work closely with our vendors to understand how we can maximise 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.”
Earlier this year, Macquarie announced that it selected equipment from Sun Microsystems following an examination of energy efficiency levels of different vendors.
Read Green Telecom’s interview with Aidan Tudehope in our Q&A section in Extras, or by clicking here
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