Energy Star Standards for Enterprise Storage

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is seeking comments on draft standards for Energy Star certification for enterprise storage systems. As mentioned in this Computer World report, the EPA released Draft 1.0 of the standard on April 9.

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"The agency has developed Energy Star ratings for servers, but storage gear requires a different approach. For example, storage systems almost always have dual power supplies, whereas servers often don't. If the sole power supply on a server were to fail, its work could be shifted to another server. But if the same happened on a storage device, applications would lose access to the data on that platform until it came back up, said Erik Riedel, a member of the Storage Networking Industry Association Technical Council."

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