July 9, 2008 (HOSTSEARCH.COM) BLADE Network Technologies, Inc. (www.bladenetwork.net), an industry leader in network virtualization for servers and storage, has announced that it has joined The Green Grid consortium. As a member of the consortium, BLADE will promote the energy efficiency of todays data centers through best practices for implementing green networking infrastructures. As a pioneer of energy-efficient data center networking, BLADE is the only company in the networking industry recognized on AlwaysOns GoingGreen 100 list of the worlds foremost green companies.
The Green Grid is a global consortium dedicated to advancing energy efficiency in data centers and business computing ecosystems. It seeks to provide industry-wide recommendations on best practices, metrics, standards and technologies that will improve overall energy efficiency in data centers and business computing ecosystems. Joining The Green Grid is part of BLADEs initiative to deliver advanced data center networking with the industrys lowest power and cooling requirements.
BLADE is a proponent of Rackonomics, which recommends that an energy-efficient data center should be made up of replicated racks that have standard configurations of servers, storage and network. Rackonomics-based data centers can realize lower ongoing total cost of ownership through improved energy efficiency.
The Green Grid is leading the way forward to the energy-efficient data center, said Andre Luthard, Chief Green Officer, BLADE Network Technologies. At a time when data center standards are not yet clearly identified, understood or adoptedparticularly when it comes to networking equipmentBLADE is committed to leading the charge towards recognized industry best practices by deploying Rackonomic solutions for energy efficiency and economically-sound environmental value.