The Green Grid, a global consortium dedicated to advancing energy efficiency in data centers and business computing ecosystems, has announced a formal collaboration with the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF), a consortium dedicated to advancing the adoption of interoperable management standards. The DMTF joins the growing ecosystem of government, non-governmental and industry organizations that are working with The Green Grid in mutually beneficial relationships that underscore the importance of its mission.
"The Green Grid's efforts to develop standards and metrics for energy efficiency through the work of our Technical Committee is advanced through complementary collaborations with other industry organizations, said Don Tilton, a director of The Green Grid. "We expect this collaboration with the DMTF will help enable the seamless management of heterogeneous IT and non-IT equipment.
The Green Grid and DMTF expect to develop standards designed to improve interoperability of management solutions at all levels of the datacenter. The two organizations' collaboration is expected to develop an interface for heterogeneous management inside and outside of platforms, across datacenters and for IT and non-IT equipment. The DMTF's Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM), a suite of management and Internet standard technologies developed to unify the management of distributed computing environments, will form the basis of the management interfaces it defines.
"Our alliance with The Green Grid to define new standards for energy efficiency will benefit all levels of the datacenter, said Winston Bumpus, DMTF president. "We recognize the importance of the datacenter to today's enterprises and are launching this collaboration with The Green Grid to better meet the needs of our target audiences.