Articles from Enterprise Storage Forum

With rising concerns about energy costs and CO2 emissions, energy use in IT organizations is under growing scrutiny. According to a 2007 Gartner report, the information and communications technology (ICT) industries produce 2 percent of global CO2 emissions – on a par with the aviation industry! Data storage, which has been seeing double-digit capacity growth for years, is an important factor in that equation. With such concerns in mind, three years ago The Green Grid – a consortium of IT vendors and end users – embarked on a high-profile quest to make IT more energy efficient. The results of that endeavor and of parallel efforts in government haven’t been spectacular, however, leaders and analysts say the groundwork is being laid for substantial long-term performance improvements, primarily through establishing what to measure and how. (Read Full Article)