Most, if not all, the hard drive manufacturers have come out with green drives; drives that spin down or turn off. There are two problems with counting on green drives to reduce your power consumption ...

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 ...

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 ...

Enterprises are under increasing pressure to align their IT infrastructure with sustainability goals as environmental concerns and energy costs escalate. Data centers, often seen as energy guzzlers, ...