US Environmental Protection Agency launched much awaited Energy Star program for enterprise servers. Energy star rating would act as a yardstick with the customer to optimize energy efficiency of their server enviornment. The EPA introduced the Energy Star program in 1992 as a voluntary program to reduce greenhouse gas emissions through energy efficiency. It's now found on monitors, computers, TVs, DVD players, on up to whole buildings.
The energy start certification would provide impetus to the green data center movement.More than two years in development, the new certification sets the qualifications for servers as being considered energy-efficient and environmentally friendly.Energy Star for Servers will measure three main categories of performance, including managing power supply performance, functioning in a virtualized environment, and energy benchmarks for measuring and reporting server energy use.
Hewelett-Packard (HP) is the first server vendor to have an Energy Star certification for for Enterprise Servers. In the first week of June 2009, HP the ProLiant DL360 G6 1U model and three configurations of the DL360 G6 2U model get the star.
The EPA is also developing specifications for storage array energy-usage. EPA would announce more details on the storage specification development process in the coming weeks.
EPA also plans to develop an Energy Star rating for data centers.

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