- Webcast
Roundtable: Key Trends in Europe on Data Center Energy Efficiency
The Green Grid EMEA leadership team hosts the first in a series of virtual roundtables discussing the latest research into key trends impacting data center energy efficiency, monitoring tools, and the pressures placed upon IT leaders to increase energy efficiency.
Key findings discussed in this and forthcoming roundtables include:
- 88 percent stated that data centers are an important part of their Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) strategy
- However, nearly half (43 percent) have no energy efficiency objectives in place for the design and operation of their data centers
- In addition, only 29 percent of organizations are able to entirely quantify the environmental impact of their data centers
- This is despite increasing pressure from both national and European Union policymakers to improve environmental sustainability
- Nevertheless, 97 percent saw areas in which their data center monitoring, including energy efficiency, could be improved
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Lance Rütimann
Vice President and Program Committee Chair
The Green Grid
Lance Rutimann is the vice president of The Green Grid and an active participant in its Board of Directors and EMEA Government Engagement Committee. He currently chairs the Program Committee, which manages the wide range of activity requests that drive content produced by The Green Grid members.
Lance participates in key European-oriented activities. Among them are the CENELEC technical committee responsible for the development of standards for data center facilities and infrastructure and the Coordination Group for Green Data Centers. In addition, he is involved in EU-funded projects, such as ICTFOOTPRINT.eu and EURECA.
Lance has nearly 30 years of experience at Siemens, having held numerous management positions in various countries, including Germany, Switzerland, and Canada.
Roel Castelein
EMEA Marketing Chair
The Green Grid
Roel Castelein is a professional strategist with more than 15 years of experience designing and implementing business transformation and go-to-market strategies, both internally at information and communications technology vendors and externally with partners and customers. He started his career in business intelligence systems design, working as sales consultant at Oracle.
As The Green Grid’s EMEA marketing program advisor, Roel complements the leadership team that The Green Grid has currently in place.
Christophe Garnier
EMEA Technical Work Group Leader
The Green Grid
Christophe Garnier has more than 10 years of experience in Schneider Electric’s Environmental Department and is an expert in environmental lifecycle and eco-design of products. He has implemented the eco-design process for a complete range of products and his responsibility has grown from insuring compliance with international regulations to implementation in RD teams.
Christophe is an expert in European CENELEC groups and represents Schneider Electric in The Green Grid EMEA Technical Work Group.