April 11, 2007 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Data center operator 365 Main (365main.com) announced on Tuesday it has joined The Green Grid, a global non-profit organization focused on reducing growing power and cooling demands in data centers worldwide.

Formed earlier this year, The Green Grid is committed to driving new user-centric metrics, technology standards and best practices for use by data center managers worldwide. Membership is open to any company developing products and technologies aimed at the data center market. 365 Main says joining this organization was the natural next step to its commitment to go green and become energy efficient as just last month it announced it has been recognized by PG&E for its noteworthy energy-reduction in its San Francisco, California data center.

"The Green Grid understands that energy efficiency in the data center is one of the most significant issues facing technology providers and their customers today, so we are extremely proud to be joining the group," says Chris Dolan, CEO of 365 Main. "We believe we can make a strong contribution right away, because while the consortium has been looking at the data center from a product-by-product level, we can offer our perspective on the whole data center building package. We look forward to actively participating in this tremendously noble organization."

Member companies currently sitting on the organization's board of directors include HP, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, AMD, APC, Dell, Rackable Systems, SprayCool, Sun Microsystems and VMware.

365 Main also recently announced that Dolan has been selected to speak at Interop Las Vegas 2007, which will take place May 20 to 25 at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center. 

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