IT Execs Want Greener Storage (5-Oct-07)
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A recent survey by Bridgehead Software has found that North American businesses are more worried about running out of power in the data centre, whereas, British companies appeared to be more concerned about the environment.
Bridgehead highlights how moving data from a spinning disk onto a non-rotating tape or optical disk will reduce electricity bills and could save upto 80% of primary storage. Storage problems have arisen partly in response to companies running scared about compliance, but it is also due to the fact that technolgy purchasing power isn't always in the IT department. For a real difference to be made an enterprise wide approach to archiving will need to be taken rather than a divisional approach where archiving is taking place for compliance and disaster recovery reasons only.
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The vast majority of UK IT departments claim storage vendors should be doing more to improve the energy-efficiency of their products, reports VNUNet.
A new survey by storage management software company BridgeHead Software found that 84% of respondents want more energy-efficient storage products.
Some 60% also indicated their own organisations are interested in finding more energy-efficient ways of managing data storage resources.
Greener storage for all
The Green Data Project has launched with a goal of making data itself, not just hardware, energy-efficient, according to Environmental Leader.
The project is a collaboration between Data Management Institute and Archive Management.org and wants to help companies re-file seldom-used data to low-energy, archival hardware. According to PC Magazine, corporate servers are about 40% full of “stuff no one ever looks at”.
The Green Data Project argues that adding more disk arrays to achieve data centre power efficiency, or adding the complexities of thin provisioning software, de-duplication software, or compression software, does not constitute a strategic or permanent solution to the twin problems of storage growth and burgeoning power demands.
HP targets SME storage
HP Storageworks has launched a range of storage offerings specifically designed for medium-sized and growing businesses, helping them accelerate growth, mitigate risk and reduce operating costs, says Economic Times.
The products include HP DL380 G5 Storage Server, HP 6000 Virtual Library System, HP Storageworks IP Distance Gateway and HP Storageworks D2D Backup System.
The HP Storageworks All-in-One SB600c Storage Blade, the newest member of HP's family of All-in-One Storage Systems for mid-sized businesses, allows rapidly growing businesses to quickly add capacity, or migrate to new technology faster and more simply.
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