Tag Archives: power usage effectiveness

SNIA illuminates storage power efficiency

Posted on October 26, 2010 by Ray

At SNW, a couple of weeks back, SNIA annouced the coming out of their green storage initiative’s new SNIA Emerald Program and the first public draft release of their storage power efficiency test  specification.  Up until now, other than SPC and … Continue reading →

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Building a green data center

Posted on June 30, 2010 by Ray

At NetApp’s Analyst Days last week David Robbins, CTO Information Technology, reported on a new highly efficient Global Dynamic Lab (GDL) data center which they built in Raleigh, North Carolina.  NetApp predicts this new data center  will have a power … Continue reading →

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