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GO Green with ONStor
While energy costs spiral out of control, does your business need to keep more green in its pockets?
Unstructured data is growing faster than fast and causing strains in the capacity of power grids and IT budgets to support uncontrolled data center growth. But...
- What if you could cut power consumption of your storage infrastructure by up to 95%?
- What if you could run your enterprise network attached storage system for the cost of a light bulb?
- What if consolidating 10 file servers into 1 was possible?
- What if it was possible to slice space usage by up to 90%, dramatically reducing cooling costs?
Yes! GO Green with ONStor.
The innovative technology to conserve energy in I.T. has arrived: ONStor's scalable clustered NAS solutions. Now I.T. is the green solution, not the problem.
ONStor users benefit from up to:
- 95% power savings
- 90% fewer devices to manage; and
- 90% space savings
The resulting server consolidation exerts a smaller footprint on the data center 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.
Words of wisdom from energy-conscious ONStor CEO, Bob Miller on energy waste in I.T., why conservation is the key, and innovative tech solutions to the problem:
"While it is important to pursue alternative sources of energy, most have a very long time horizon before they can make a real impact. In my mind, we in the I.T. industry have to do our part, which is to attack the other end of the problem by reducing consumption and increasing efficiency. As a result of significant technology advances in hardware and software, businesses can now be green while saving that other kind of green: money. To lower skyrocketing energy costs, businesses must focus on energy efficiency as an important component of their decision making process - not just of their desktop computers but also their computing infrastructure. Both are important, but the fact is that servers and storage arrays draw the most power and are the fastest growing requirement. This, in turn, drives even greater energy usage by the HVAC systems needed to cool the many square feet of dedicated and undedicated space in which these devices operate."
Today businesses can realize massive cost benefits by consolidating their storage and server environments with new technologies like file virtualization, server virtualization, and storage virtualization, as well as advanced power management capabilities. They should also choose computing solutions with low power consumption, low cooling requirements, and low space requirements. Energy Star is a good starting point to gauge efficiency of devices that it covers, but businesses should also compare devices against the criteria set by the Climate Savers Computing Initiative, as well as vendors' own green initiatives. Vendors should be able to provide comparative cost savings figures. For example, businesses using ONStor's storage solutions for file-based data have seen savings up to 95% in power consumption costs and 90% in space compared to traditional direct- and network-attached storage. And the smaller footprint means much lower cooling costs and associated space savings."
