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Upcoming Event: Chicago, May 13th 2008

Green and Environmental Friendly Storage: Practical Ways to Achieve Energy Efficiency

Green is in-and every storage vendor out there has a green story to tell. Greg Schulz, Founder and Senior Analyst, StorageIO will be discussing issues, trends, drivers and what technology and best practices can be applied today to address data and storage footprint growth to enable and sustain business and economic growth.

Learn about other upcoming events along with previous presentations and content pertaining to Power, Cooling, Floor-space, Environmental (PCFE) and green related topics for storage, servers, networking and IT data centers [ Read More... ]

There are many aspects to "Green" Information Technology including servers, storage, networks and associated management tools and techniques. The reasons and focus of "Green IT" including "Green Data Storage", "Green Computing" and related focus areas are varied to address diverse needs, issues and requirements including among others:

Power, Cooling, Floor-space, Environmental (PCFE) related issues or constraints
Reduction of carbon dioxide (CO₂) emissions and other green house gases (GHGs)
Business growth and economic sustainment in an environmental friendly manner
Proper disposal or recycling of environmental harmful retired technology components
Reduction or better efficiency of electrical power consumption used for IT equipment
Cost avoidance or savings from lower energy fees and cooling costs
Support data center and/or application workload consolidation to reduce cost and management
Enable growth and enhancements to application service level objectives
Maximize the usage of available power and cooling resources available in your region
Compliance with local or federal government mandates and regulations
Economic sustainment and ability to support business growth and service improvements
General environmental awareness and stewardship to save and protect the earth

Consequently your view and needs or interests around "Green" IT may be from a electrical power conservation perspective to maximize your power consumption or to adapt to a given power footprint or ceiling. Your focus around "Green" Data Centers and Green Storage may be from a carbon savings standpoint or proper disposition of old and retired IT equipment or from a data center cooling standpoint. Another area of focus may be that you are looking to reduce your data footprint to align with your power, cooling and green footprint while enhancing application and data service delivery to your customers [ Read more... ].

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