Green storage
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Energy Star storage list makes it easier to choose power efficient storage devices and conserve energy.
Today’s businesses are digging deep to find ways of reducing operating costs. Many are finding opportunities in their enterprise data centers – specifically, technology that can significantly decrease energy consumption and costs. How do they do that?

Second edition of IT Inspiration Awards honors Asia Pacific companies and CIOs for their brilliance in technology innovation and usage at Hitachi Data Systems’ Annual APAC CIO Summit.

Behind the scenic and majestic façade of the integrated resort on Singapore's vacation paradise island of Sentosa is a data center with an integrated network that helps make everything work seamlessly, securely and reliably.
The new green facility in Yokohama incorporates power-efficient data center technology designed to achieve a benchmarking rating of 1.6 PUE (Power Usage Effectiveness).

Most data center designers use Power Usage Effectiveness to calculate data center efficiency. In today's virtualized data center environment this is a wrong metric to use. Emerson's Mark Deguara explains why this is so and recommends a supplemental metric - Compute Units per Second - to provide a real gauge of data center utilization and efficiency.
VMware global partners have given their support to VMware Distributed Power Management, which lowers power consumption costs by as much as 20%.
Green500 finds IBM holding 57 out the Top 100 energy efficient supercomputers in the world.









