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The industry-backed Green Grid has made available new tools to help data centre managers become greener in their operations.

The free online tools extend the benefits of the previously released cooling tools introduced by the Green Grid last year.

The new Green Grid data centre tools are:

• Power Efficiency Estimator - designed to help data centre operators compare different scenarios of power topologies and technologies inside their facility.
• PUE Estimator - allows data centre operators to easily input their facility’s specific data at regular intervals to determine their Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE)
• New White Paper: Impact of Virtualisation on Data Centre Physical Infrastructure - provides guidance on how data centre professionals can maximise power and cooling equipment electricity savings in a data centre environment that is using virtualisation
• New Online Course from The Green Grid Academy - a self-directed online course, called “Data Centre 101: Constrained Capacity", designed to help data centre managers and operators "get familiar with industry lexicon and solutions to everyday data centre challenges".

The Green Grid also says it is making "significant progress" with its previously-announced Data Centre Design Guide, aimed at making date centres much more greener generally. Outline and draft chapters have now been posted on its website for member comment.

The Green Grid is a global consortium of companies, government agencies and educational institutions.