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<p style="color: #666;">The corporate IT group of a very large, worldwide financial organization with 100,000 employees, has initiated an ongoing “greening” process. This is focused largely on reducing energy use both to decrease the corporation's carbon footprint while creating a net savings in operational costs over the lifetime of new, more energy-efficient equipment, including new storage systems. This effort is not viewed by the IT administration as a one-time project but rather as a perpetual process of evaluating new technology in part on its energy efficiency and introducing it into the corporate data centers to replace aging systems as appropriate. </p>
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<p style="color: #666;">The corporate IT group of a very large, worldwide financial organization with 100,000 employees, has initiated an ongoing “greening” process. This is focused largely on reducing energy use both to decrease the corporation's carbon footprint while creating a net savings in operational costs over the lifetime of new, more energy-efficient equipment, including new storage systems.</p>
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<p style="color: #666;">Fluctuating energy prices have heightened electricity and energy consumption as a major issue within the technology community. IT is a significant consumer of energy and IT energy costs have been rising disproportionately because of continued investment in denser IT equipment. Estimates from the EPA and others indicate that IT will account for 3% of energy consumption by 2012.
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While technology changes have decreased footprint, power loading (amount of power required for a square foot of data center space) and heat load (the amount of heat that has to be removed from a square foot of data center space) have both escalated dramatically. The result is higher energy costs to provide power and extract heat from the data center, and lower utilization of data center floor space because of power and cooling limitations. The technology trends are toward higher heat and power loading, which will exacerbate the problem.
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Tips and techniques to go green

Storage managers should project their storage requirements over the next five years, assume a rapid transition to 2.5" drives, and calculate the power, space, power density and cooling requirements. They should then work with the data center designers to ensure that there is sufficient power and cooling available, and that there are the funds and commitment for the necessary infrastructure changes. In addition, storage managers should put in place a green storage infrastructure that will minimize disk drive usage by being able to:

  • Turn off spares,
  • Aggressively pursue tiered storage with lower RPM drives,
  • Implement MAID and/or drive spin down where appropriate,
  • Aggressively implement virtualization and thin provisioning to reduce the drives required,
  • Consider rear door heat exchangers using chilled water,
  • Consider the use of external storage services and/or outsourcing or storage equipment,
  • Ask the vendors about their green storage commitment.

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Financial giant goes green

The corporate IT group of a very large, worldwide financial organization with 100,000 employees, has initiated an ongoing “greening” process. This is focused largely on reducing energy use both to decrease the corporation's carbon footprint while creating a net savings in operational costs over the lifetime of new, more energy-efficient equipment, including new storage systems.

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Planning a Green Storage Initiative

Fluctuating energy prices have heightened electricity and energy consumption as a major issue within the technology community. IT is a significant consumer of energy and IT energy costs have been rising disproportionately because of continued investment in denser IT equipment. Estimates from the EPA and others indicate that IT will account for 3% of energy consumption by 2012.

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