Alliances

ASP SaaS Industry Consortium (ASPIC) 

ASPIC is a consortium dedicated to spreading and promoting Cloud-ASP-SaaS and data centers, and proposing Cloud-ASP-SaaS solutions to users, providers and governments through the market expansion of Cloud-ASP-SaaS business, cloud-ASP-SaaS promotion in cooperation with governments, promotion of certification systems for information disclosure concerning safety and reliability of Cloud-ASP-SaaS, promotion of data centers that realize Cloud-ASP-SaaS, and contribution to member enterprises.

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BCS - The Chartered Institute for IT 

The mission at BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT (formerly known as British Computer Society), is to enable the information society. They promote wider social and economic progress through the advancement of information technology science and practice. BCS brings together industry, academics, practitioners and government to share knowledge, promote new thinking, inform the design of new curricula, shape public policy and inform the public. Their vision is to be a world-class organization for IT. Their 70,000 strong membership includes practitioners, businesses, academics and students in the UK and internationally. BCS delivers a range of professional development tools for practitioners and employees. A leading IT qualification body, they offer a range of widely recognized qualifications.

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China Communications Standards Association (CCSA) 

The China Communications Standards Association ("CCSA") is the national communications standards organization with a membership of over 300 manufacturers, network operators, service providers, research bodies and academia in the communication field, which carries out research activities on information and communications technical standards, and organizes its members into participating in such activities as standards developing and revising. CCSA has the objective to adapt the Chinese communications market, to keep pace with global standardization progress, to promote the activities on communications standardization in China, and to make contributions to the global standardization work.

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Data Center Pulse (DCP)

Data Center Pulse (DCP) is a growing, non-profit, data center industry community founded on the principles of sharing best practices amongst its exclusive membership. Founded in late 2008, DCP is quickly becoming an industry nexus for the explosive datacenter industry’s operators and influencers.

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The Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF)

With more than 4,000 active participants representing 44 countries and nearly 200 organizations, the Distributed Management Task Force, Inc. (DMTF) is the industry organization leading the development, adoption and promotion of interoperable management standards and initiatives. DMTF management technologies are critical to enabling management interoperability among multi-vendor systems, tools, and solutions within the enterprise.

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U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)

Save Energy Now is an initiative of The US Department of Energy’s Industrial Technologies Program (ITP). ITP is spearheading a broad initiative that harnesses public and private sector resources to drive a 25% reduction in industrial energy intensity over the next 10 years. ITP is engaging other federal agencies, leading corporations, states, utilities, universities, and other organizations to accelerate industry adoption of the technologies and practices that will enable increased production with reduced energy requirements.

DOE’s Save Energy Now initiative provides the resources industry needs to identify and implement the most cost-effective options for energy savings. The initiative has now targeted data centers as a high-growth and energy intensive sector of the U.S. economy as an important area to improve energy efficiency. Save Energy Now is developing a tool suite backed with a training curriculum, energy assessment protocols, best-in-class guidelines, a process to certify data center energy experts, and is considering working with industry on a voluntary certification process that will validate any data center's continual improvement in energy.

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Ecma International 

Ecma International is an international standards development organization with a long history of close cooperation with industry and academia. Founded in 1961 and dedicated to the standardization of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and Consumer Electronics (CE).

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Gimélec

 

Gimélec is a group of French electrical manufacturers with over 200 member companies. Its mission includes the development of new regulations and active development of standards and best practice rules; collection and dissemination of information to enable its member companies to benefic from an active stand on legal, economic, technical or environmental issues; active promotion of members and their products through brochures, exhibitions, internet, press, mailing, foundations, etc.; promotion of "good practices" through teh development of guides, charters, voluntary agreements and trademarks; and consolidation of professional positions and creating sustainable value to markets.

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Green500 

The purpose of the Green500 is to provide a ranking of the most energy-efficient supercomputers in the world. For decades, the notion of "performance" has been synonymous with "speed" (as measured in FLOPS, short for floating-point operations per second). This particular focus has led to the emergence of supercomputers that consume egregious amounts of electrical power and produce so much heat that extravagant cooling facilities must be constructed to ensure proper operation.

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Green IT Promotion Council (GIPC)

Global warming is a top-priority issue requiring an urgent, global-scale response. Recognizing that radical technological innovation has a critical role to play in achieving harmony between our economic and social activities and the global environment, Japan has created the "Cool Earth-Innovative Energy Technology Program" for the development of new technologies from a long-term perspective.

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Information Technology Industry Council (ITI)

The Information Technology Industry Council (ITI) is the premier group of the nation's leading high-tech companies and widely recognized as the tech industry's most effective lobbying organization in Washington, in various foreign capitals, and the World Trade Organization.

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Japan Data Center Council (JDCC)

The Japan Data Center Council (JDCC) was established as an alliance of relevant parties in industry, academia and government and its inaugural meeting was held. Its aim is to cope with the explosive increase in the amount of information handled in the economy and society and to improve the international competitiveness of the Japanese data center business.

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Manufacturers Association of Information Technology (MAIT)

Set up in 1982 for purposes of scientific, educational and IT Industry promotion, the Manufacturers Association of Information Technology (MAIT) has emerged as an effective, influential and dynamic organization. Representing Hardware, Training, R&D & Hardware Design and other associated service segments of the Indian IT Industry.

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The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA)

SNIA works to advance IT technologies, standards, and education programs for all IT professionals. Made up of some 400 member companies and nearly 7000 individuals spanning the global storage market, the SNIA connects the IT industry with end-to-end storage and information management solutions.

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