If the iconic Muppet character Kermit the Frog hopped into the data center of a typical enterprise-sized organization on any given day to see the racks and racks of data storage systems (called arrays ...

Like it or loathe it: The march toward green storage is moving forward. HP, Pillar Data Systems and Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) all have announced "green" storage products in recent weeks and the green ...

Microsoft Research is working on a rather cool project to reduce power consumption of storage subsystems. The project is called DiskEnergy and it was brought to light by a post from ZDNet blogger Mary ...

In a perfect world, you easily could rein in the rapidly increasing amount of power that storage systems consume just by telling users to stop stockpiling data. In the real world, you’d lose your job ...

Rotating green matter?: So while AMD and Intel have been shouting in our ear about how they are putting money in our pockets by making their processors more power efficient, storage vendors have been ...

Driven to cut energy consumption in the datacenter and server room, companies are becoming increasingly interested in the amount of power their IT hardware consumes. Yet organizations face the ongoing ...

An energy storage division of a global solar power provider announced it has signed a letter of intent to supply equipment for several energy parks being developed by a UK-based renewable energy ...

There is an ever increasing emphasis by storage suppliers on the power efficiency of their systems. There is also an increasing interest from IT managers on making their environment more power ...

With the rapidly rising cost of energy, the idea of green storage has regained some traction. While going green and reducing the carbon footprint has been a background theme of recent years, it’s ...

Luckily, you have a number of more realistic options to help reduce the energy required to power your systems. Storage isn’t the biggest energy hog in the data center, but cutting back on storage’s ...