Green Storage Initative Launches

October 16, 2007 at 4:38 pm | Posted in Computing, Energy Efficiency | Leave a comment
Tags: 3par, brocade, copan systems, data center, dell, emc, emulex, energy, equallogic, green computing, hitachi, hp, ibm, intransa, lsi, microsoft, netapp, qlogic, seagate, storage, sun, xiotech, xyatex

First came The Green Grid, a nonprofit consortium (including the likes of Intel and AMD) working together on data center and computing power efficiency. Now there’s the SNIA Green Storage Initiative, a similar group focused on advancing energy efficiency in networked storage technologies.

Launched today, the group includes 3PAR, Brocade, COPAN Systems, Inc., Dell, EMC, EqualLogic, Emulex, Hitachi Data Systems, HP, Intransa, IBM, LSI, Microsoft, NetApp, QLogic, Seagate, Sun, Xiotech, and Xyratex.

It’s unclear what benefit such a group will have on the overall industry’s energy usage, but the Storage Initiative at least plans on educating data center operators on green data storage.

“Our green efforts will include helping our member companies design more energy efficient products, investigating specific technologies such as data de-duplication, thin provisioning and tape-based archiving as well as providing education that can help contribute to energy efficiency,” notes the release.