The Green Grid Expands Operations to Asia with New Presence in Japan

New Work Groups and Memorandum of Understanding with Government
Ministry Extend Consortium's IT Energy Efficiency Advocacy; New
Japanese Website Now Live
PORTLAND, Ore. & TOKYO--(Business Wire)--
The Green Grid, a global consortium dedicated to advancing energy
efficiency in data centers and business computing ecosystems, today
announced the formation of two new Japan Work Groups as well as a
formal relationship with The Green IT Promotion Council. Responding to
strong industry and government demand, these steps are designed to
expand the organization's presence to Asia with initial operations in
Japan. Representing an important opportunity for The Green Grid to
extend its IT energy efficiency advocacy to this key region, the new
Japan Work Groups are expected to enable The Green Grid to establish a
unique set of best practices, metrics and technologies tailored for
locally-based organizations.

"The Green Grid is responding to a long and strong history in
Japan to improve data center energy efficiency," said John Tuccillo,
director of The Green Grid. "The launch of these new Work Groups will
position The Green Grid to make strategic, tailored recommendations to
Japanese businesses and organizations, with the goal to promote a
sustained increase in energy efficiency."

Reporting to the Technical Committee, the Japan Data Collection
and Analysis Work Group will be chartered with collecting and
analyzing data from The Green Grid's Japanese member companies and to
ensure that consortium recommendations are tailored appropriately for
Japan-based organizations. In addition, the Japan Communications Work
Group will promote the key findings of the Technical Committee to
Japanese IT professionals including data center managers, serve as a
point of engagement for Japanese organizations interested in
collaborating with The Green Grid, and support local marketing and IT
energy efficiency events.

New Relationship with The Green IT Promotion Council

The Green Grid also today will formalize a working relationship
with The Green IT Promotion Council (GIPC) by signing a Memorandum of
Understanding (MOU) that will enable The Green Grid and GIPC to work
together to outline the information that they will exchange and the
joint activities they will conduct to improve overall IT energy
efficiency. This new MOU with GIPC will allow both The Green Grid and
GIPC to convey relevant information to their respective member
organizations. The MOU is expected to be signed later today at a
reception sponsored by GIPC and held at the Prince Park Tower in
Tokyo, ahead of the GIPC's Green IT International Symposium, scheduled
for May 29th.

The Green IT Promotion Council President Tsutomu Handa said, "The
Green IT Promotion Council welcomes this partnership with The Green
Grid. The Green IT Promotion Council recognizes global warming as a
crucial challenge that must be taken on immediately, and we believe
that epoch-making technological innovations will be necessary in order
to harmonize our economic and social activities with the global
environment. Recent government initiatives, a strengthening of
partnerships among industry, government and the academy, as well as
this collaboration with The Green Grid, typify the enhancement of
relations with organizations overseas. And we have high hopes that
through these efforts we will be able to make the concepts of "energy
conservation for IT" and "energy conservation by IT" a reality."

"The Green Grid is pleased to expand our ecosystem of industry
partners by working with GIPC to promote energy efficient IT policies
and educate users on steps they can take to improve IT energy
efficiency," said Jon Haas, a representative of The Green Grid. "This
collaboration will allow The Green Grid to learn from and integrate
established policies with best practices and metrics tailored for the
Japanese IT community."

The Green Grid Japan Website

To facilitate worldwide communications, The Green Grid today
unveiled a new Japanese language Web site designed to aid the
promotion of The Green Grid's best practices, metrics and technologies
to Japanese businesses and organizations. Interested parties can learn
more about The Green Grid, including how to participate in the new
Japan Work Groups, by visiting www.thegreengrid.org/japanese/. The
Green Grid Japanese member companies include GMO Hosting, Fujitsu
Limited, Fujitsu FIP Corporation, Hitachi, Ltd., Internet Initiative
Japan Inc., ITOCHU Techno-Solutions Corporation, NEC Corporation,
Nomura Research Institute, NTT COMWARE Corporation, NTT DATA
CORPORATION, NTT Facilities, SOFTBANK IDC Corp and TEPCO.

About The Green Grid

The Green Grid is a global consortium of companies dedicated to
advancing energy efficiency in data centers and computing ecosystems.
The Green Grid does not endorse any vendor-specific products or
solutions, and will seek to provide industry-wide recommendations on
best practices, metrics and technologies that will improve overall
data center energy efficiencies. Membership is open to companies
interested in data center operational efficiency at the Contributing
or General Member level. General members attend and participate in
general meetings of The Green Grid, review proposals for
specifications and have access to specifications for test suites and
design guidelines and IP licensing. Additional benefits for
contributor members include participation and voting rights in
committees and working groups. Additional information is available at
www.thegreengrid.org.

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