Green Storage

Energy has become one of the basic necessities of our life. It has definitely improved living standards all over the world. But the increasing demand of energy poses environmental challenges like global warming.

Energy efficiency and power consumption have now become hot issues in Storage industry too. Many storage companies like HP, 3PAR, HDS are coming up with technologies like “Thin Provisioning” and “Dynamic Capacity Management” which can improve efficiency by upto 45% and capacity utilization by more than 50%.

The fundamental concept of these Green Storage technologies is that physical capacity is only dedicated when the application writes data, rather than when the storage volume is initially allocated. For instance, storage administrators can thinly provision 50GB of storage as a 200GB volume. They can later add 50GB of storage on three different occasions without having to expand the file system. So they don’t have to keep more disks spinning without actually using them, thereby reducing power consumption.

Idealstor LLC (www.idealstor.com - the company I work for) use energy efficient storage technology by default in their products. They specialize in Removable disk solutions. Idealstor hardware appliance lets you eject the disks like tapes for offsite storage. You can use any SATA disk from capacity 40GB to1TB on a single system which makes the solution scalable. This allows administrators to use fewer systems, hence less power consumption, less cooling issues and energy efficient.

Move to Green Storage…… Your company will appreciate the savings and so will your planet.