Green Archival Storage

Rising power costs, new legislation on climate change, and increased environmental awareness are all factors driving organizations to carefully evaluate the energy consumption of their IT infrastructure. Choosing energy efficient IT products and strategies can dramatically reduce rising electricity bills, and improve operational efficiencies while implementing environmentally responsible corporate policies.

Heidi Biggar of ESG discusses how Alliance Storage Technologies’s UDO technology provides users with several low-cost alternatives to reduce their power consumption and carbon footprint, while meeting business objectives and ensuring secure, random access to archive data. Archive data by definition is unchanging and infrequently accessed. Significant cost and energy savings can be realized by migrating archive data from primary disk systems to an archive tier specifically designed for the long-term, permanent storage of static data. Download ESG’s white paper on Alliance Storage Technologies UDO: A “Green” Approach to Archiving for further information.

Alliance Storage Technologies’s Green Archival Storage report provides additional information about the energy consumption and carbon footprint of archiving solutions from EMC, NetApp, and Alliance Storage Technologies. There are dramatic differences in energy costs and carbon emissions between the three vendors. In fact, EMC’s Centera consumes as much as 17 times more energy than a comparable UDO archive, and a NetApp NearStore archive consumes seven times more energy.

Download ESG “Green” White paper