Rittal Joins The Green Grid

Monday, 24 September 2007 05:10

Rittal, a leading worldwide provider of IT infrastructure technologies, has joined The Green Grid, a consortium of information technology companies and professionals which seeks to lower the overall consumption of power in data centres around the globe. 


The Green Grid is committed to developing generic platform-neutral standards, measurement methods, processes and new technologies to improve energy efficient performance of global data centres.

“In research, product development and our present range of solutions, we are aiming at increased efficiency, in particular with our scalable systems for UPS and cooling in data centres. This is of strategic importance for us", said Mark Roberts, Rimatrix5 Product Manager, Australia. "We decided to join The Green Grid in order to make our own contribution to greater environment-friendliness in IT.

Rittal has been promoting green technologies for a number of years. With its "RimatriX5" range of power, cooling, racks and security services the company has put together a flexible scalable, modular concept for data centres on the market, which fully meets the need for future-oriented and energy-efficient technology.  Its uninterrupted power supplies with above-average efficiency ensure more efficient energy management. The LCP (Liquid Cooling Package) air conditioning concept also employs the latest technologies such as "free cooling", which means that less active cooling is needed in cooler months allowing for considerable savings in power.

Membership to The Green Grid is open to those companies and information technology professionals with an interest in helping to support the movement to improve data centre power consumption, and improve overall efficiency. Members collectively believe that energy efficiency in data centres is the most significant issue facing technology providers and their customers today. They attribute this to exponential increases in power and cooling costs over the past few years, as well as customer demands for concentrated computing outpacing the availability of clean reliable power in many areas around the world.