The Green Data Centre: Storage

Storing your savings

As disk prices come down, companies are increasingly using it for backup and archive functions that traditionally were tape-dedicated. Unlike tape, though, disks draw power even when they’re not in use. Minimizing the number of disks in use by de-duping and thin provisioning of data can save on power draw.

Prostor Systems may have the best of both worlds in its RDX removable disk technology. Like tape, it doesn’t draw power when it’s not in use, but when it’s plugged in, it still offers disk-like access rates, Wendt says.

  1. Blades + virtualization + multicore = power savings
  2. Keeping cool
  3. Savings in the cards
  4. Storing your savings

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Dave Webb is a freelance editor and writer. A veteran journalist of more than 20 years' experience (15 of them in technology), he has held senior editorial positions with a number of technology publications. He was honoured with an Andersen Consulting Award for Excellence in Business Journalism in 2000, and several Canadian Online Publishing Awards as part of the ComputerWorld Canada team.

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