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News Release from: ONStor | Subject: Clustered NAS solutions
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 29 June 2007
Green data centres enabled by ONStor
ONStor storage solutions have built-in advanced power management and file server consolidation technology to reduce power consumption
ONStor, the leading provider of scalable clustered NAS solutions for the enterprise, has announced a strong foothold in the "greening of the data centre" movement by enabling companies to drastically reduce power consumption in their IT environment To achieve this reduction, companies can deploy ONStor storage solutions, which have built-in advanced power management and file server consolidation technology
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 17 Apr 2007 at 8.00am (UK)
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* 90% fewer devices to manage.
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By 2010, the Climate Savers Computing Initiative seeks to reduce global CO2 emissions from the operation of computers by 54 million tons per year, equivalent to the annual output of 11 million cars or 10 - 20 coal-fired power plants.
The initiative's projected result is a 50% reduction in power consumption by computers by 2010, allowing for committed participants to collectively save up to $5.5 billion in energy costs.
The Uptime Institute, in its "The Economic Breakdown of Moore's Law," lists "Virtualising Servers" among its top five recommendations for saving energy in the data centre.
ONStor scalable clustered NAS systems, which are deployed across a broad range of demanding enterprise IT applications including large-scale Windows server consolidation, Internet content delivery, and digital imaging, virtualise multiple physical file systems across both ONStor virtual file servers and Windows file servers.
The resulting server consolidation exerts a smaller footprint on the data centre floor, inherently drawing less power and requiring far less cooling.
ONStor's systems typically replace up to 10 file servers with a single NAS appliance that is only 1.75 inches high.
Moreover, ONStor's advanced power management, standard on all units, uses only 160 watts of power per NAS appliance.
Each NAS appliance draws a little over 1 AMP of power consumption - 55% lower than the industry standard.
Bob Miller, ONStor's CEO, states, "Green programs that are sweeping the IT industry, such as The Climate Savers Computing Initiative and the EPA's Energy Star Program, validate what we've been offering our customers all along: high-performance storage solutions that cut down on unnecessary energy consumption, reducing costs and carbon dioxide emissions".
"By exceeding these ambitious energy efficiency recommendations, we're excited to support our partners and our customers in their efforts towards reaching a common goal for the industry: to reduce energy waste and improve businesses' bottom line".
"As part of that commitment, ONStor will be announcing a green initiative in the near future".
The rising power consumption among data centres is exacerbated by the need to store data in the face of exponential growth and is also due in part to the trend towards centralising corporate computing functions.
The last few years has seen double-digit growth in new servers and storage devices in the data centre.
Add to that rising electricity costs at the same time as processors themselves become more powerful; the costs associated with running these 24/7 while cooling them down at the same time are staggering.
Finally, data centres' imperative to ensure 100% uptime often leads to overbuilding, over-provisioning of computing platforms, and overinvestment in infrastructures like cooling systems, all leading to significant energy waste.
"At a time when power costs are skyrocketing and energy compliance regulations are becoming more stringent, ONStor's clustered NAS systems and gateways are at the vanguard of the green movement, providing data centres with a viable and cost-effective alternative to legacy NAS systems that are not designed for energy efficiency," said Steve Norall, senior analyst at the Taneja Group, which is soon to release a comprehensive research report on the state of green in the IT industry.
"ONStor's ability to run 10 file servers for what it takes to power a light bulb and shrink real estate consumed by servers to a fraction, is an achievement that customers on the lookout for a way to reduce power usage can't afford to ignore".
"The future is undeniably green, and ONStor is making it easy for companies to be green today".
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