Enterprise Data Storage Servers Need Energy Star

This Smart Energy News report, contributed by David Scott, CEO of 3PAR suggests that currently available green storage technologies have already been proven to trim data center power requirements up to 75 percent, and that the industry needs to propel the Energy Star initiative for storage and stop neglecting the fact that our national obsession with digital data has made us power guzzlers.

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"Enterprise IT vendors have spent the past few years emphasizing the greater energy efficiency of their newest gear. The Energy Star initiative would put energy efficiency right up there on the management decision list – in a way that the Federal government is already doing with an Obama executive order on energy conservation that has spurred many Federal agencies into actually tasking management with 'green IT scorecards.'

"For example, currently available green storage technologies have already been proven to trim data center power requirements up to 75 percent. In fact, results like these have already spurred utilities such as PG&E and Austin Energy to offer incentives to commercial and industrial customers that deploy gear that uses energy-saving virtualization and thin provisioning technologies. For 3PAR customers, those energy savings are also combined with floor space savings – literally decreasing the customer’s physical footprint as well as its carbon footprint. The end result is less storage to house, power, cool, and maintain."

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