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By David Garrels Ok, this entry won't have very much to do with Green Storage. But I had the opportunity to attend the SIBOS tradeshow in Vienna a ~week ago and thought I'd share some observations about the show and about "green" in general (SIBOS is a Banking show focused on Payment...
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- by David Garrels We’ve talked in this blog before about how much power spinning disks use as being the biggest driver of storage power consumption. And we’ve discussed ways to minimize the number of spinning disks. Now, let’s talk about how much power you can save if you get the data off of disk and...
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Green Storage #3 – Green Storage and SNIA Unplugged Fest - by David Garrels You may have recently seen a recent announcement from SNIA that they were hosting an “unplugged” fest at their facility in Colorado Springs April 22 - 23. HP and several other vendors came together to collect the baseline data...
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- by David Garrels Last time in the Green Storage blog we talked about ways to minimize the power requirements of storage and the three tools you can use today to save power. Now, let’s look at some of the things we’re doing at HP to minimize the environmental impact of our products themselves. We’ve...
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- by David Garrels There’s a lot of “greenwashing” going on in the IT world today – vendors talking about their “green IT” strategy in so many different ways it becomes very confusing (buy a pc, plant a tree?). I’ve even seen vendors show up at tradeshows having changed their company logo & booth...