Proposals for Data Center 2.0 will be unveiled at next week's Green Grid Technical Forum based around the latest design guidelines and best practices for building the data center of the future.

The guidelines will cover every aspect from factilities to IT for building efficient data centers of the future and offering guidance on reporting and recognition of the correcxt usage of PUE and DciP metrics.

For the PUE and DciP metrics the Green Grid plans to tighten the guidelines "to get away from these PUE figures of below 1 that show data centers are generating power" Mark Monroe, green grid director, told DatacenterDynamics.

On the latest metrics, the forum will hear eight new proposals on energy measurement methods for usefulness of computing within a data center.

"We have some new papers coming out. There is a big debate around efficiency about measuring the useful work that is done within the data center at a compute level. When the green grid came up with DceP (Data center energy Productivity) index we saw it was very complicated and difficult to implement."

The forum will hear of eight proxies which are being proposed as possible metrics for measuring useful computing from an energy perspective.

"We want to have a lot of discussions - we're going to outbound on DceP. We will have focus groups with end users and we want to ask them which one of these methods, if any, will help you determine good data center practice."

Monroe said the the session on DCeP will include a presentation by the Pacific North West National Laboratory (PNL) which has taken a detailed look at DCeP. He said it promises to be a very detailed presentation. "It is a great study to prove out some of the tennants of DCeP and now the proxies have been developed so you don't have to be a national technical laboratory to implement them."

The forum will launch the The Green Grid Academy, a training progamme based around a web based on-demand training system which will seek to educate data center professionals on efficient operations.

Other sessions on the agenda include Utility Engagement with IT and Data Centers, Information Modelling for Data Centers, Quantitative Analysis of Power Distribution and Fundamentals of Data Center Power and Cooling Zones.

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