Since I posted my blog this morning on Earth Day, EPA and PUE. I received some pictures of the Green data center that Hitach is building in Yokohama. You can check them out on flickr. This should be on line by April 2009 and is targeted for a Power Usage Efficiency of 1.6 which will be […]

Earth Day 2008 will be celebrated on April 22 with observations scheduled around the world. This year’s theme is “A Call for Climate” a global warming action theme. While there may still be skeptics about global warning, there is no disputing the rising cost of energy, as I fill my Prius with $3.89 per gallon gas […]

This was the title of a panel that was held last week at SNW in Orlando. It was moderated by Ron Milton of Computer World and on the panel was Mark Showers the CIO of Monsanto, Mark O’Gara Vice President of Infrastructure Management at Highmark, Andrew Fanara, team leader of the EPA Energy Star Product […]

Today, March 29 is Earth Hour Day, where we will all be encouraged to turn off our lights and non essential appliances from 8pm to 9pm to promote conservation. The World Wildlife foundation launched the idea last year in Australia and it has now gone international.  
If you went on Google today you would have seen a […]

The “Green tech” movement and increasing focus on IT budgets is driving a growing awareness of storage deficiencies. The storage of data has become highly inefficient, with low utilization, over allocation, stranded storage, too many redundant copies, low access speeds, inefficient search, and disruptive movement and migration. Actual utilization of storage is less than […]

H.R. 6 was signed into law by President Bush today. The provisions of this act includes raising the fuel efficiency of cars, trucks, and SUVs to 35 mpg by 2020, increase the renewable fuel standard to 36 billion gallons by 2022, and enact a national efficiency standard for light bulbs. While there are some concerns […]

In September of this year Hitachi ltd, our parent company announced a program in Japan that is known as CoolCenter50 which is targeted at reducing power consumption in their Yokohama and Okayama data center by 50% in 5 years. This effort encompasses all of the groups in Hitachi including, air conditioning, power generation, IT […]

Last week at SNW, one of the hottest topics was “Green”. Every vendor promoted their “Green” technology, which often was nothing more than the use of larger capacity disks or tapes to replace lower capacity disks. While I agree that any thing that enables us to store more data capacity for less power consumption […]

Today, Hitachi Data Systems announced a new Power Savings Services feature for the AMS and WMS modular storage families. This Power Savings feature allows customers to power down RAID group volumes when not being accessed by a business application. These volumes can be quickly powered back up again when required. This feature should appeal to […]

The Enterprise Strategy Group published a new white paper on Power, Cooling, Space Efficient Storage, in which they introduced the acronym, PCSE, for Power Cooling, Space Efficiency, and identified 11 storage technologies that could raise the PCSE for storage. These technologies included:
Thin Provisioning
Dynamic Volume Management
Snapshots
Writeable Snapshots
Data Compression
Data De-Duplication
Internal Storage Virtualization – Wide Stripe Groups
Storage System […]