Premium Content

Access "Power-smart disk systems"

Published: 17 Oct 2012
How to successfully deploy data replication

This article is part of the Vol. 8 Num. 2 April 2009 issue of How to successfully deploy data replication

Disk drive systems use more power than just about any other data center gear, but storage vendors are addressing this problem with a variety of technologies. By Matt Perkins Last fall, Adaptec Inc. kicked off its Green Power Initiative by introducing a new capability for many of its RAID controllers called Intelligent Power Management. The product was made available with the company's Series 5 and Series 2 Unified Serial RAID controllers, and was designed to help configure storage systems to reduce power consumption by up to 70% without forfeiting performance. "What we decided to do was to address the whole storage package," said Suresh Panikar, director of worldwide marketing at Adaptec. "Our initiative said that from now on our products will have a flavor of power management." Storage administrators can configure banks of drives to operate at different power levels at different times, and set the drives to spin up and down according to usage patterns. Adaptec is one of several storage providers eyeing green initiatives in the data center. Vendors such as ... Access >>>

Access TechTarget
Premium Content for Free.

By submitting you agree to receive email from TechTarget and its partners. If you reside outside of the United States, you consent to having your personal data transferred to and processed in the United States. Privacy

Already a member? Login to access this content.

What's Inside

Features
    • Power-smart disk systems

      Disk drive systems use more power than just about any other data center gear, but storage vendors are addressing this problem with a variety of technologies.

    • The buzz about dedupe

      Approximately one-third of respondents to Storage magazine's latest survey use a dedupe product, but how easy will it be to convert stragglers?

    • Virtual jobs

      Virtualizing servers, storage and even networks will change the face of IT and significantly impact the roles of storage professionals.

    • Value-based data protection

      There's no skimping when it comes to data protection, but tight budgets mean that storage managers will be looking for solid value in their backup products.

    • Replication alternatives

      Data replication is great for protecting critical data and ensuring quick recoveries. Find out where you should deploy replication: in your array, network or servers.

  • Columns
    • Data virtualization turns less into more

      Less physical data living and moving over our plumbing means we can have more virtual instances of that data, which drives even more value.

    • Is cloud storage the return of the service provider? by Terri McClure

      Cloud storage is a service, just like what storage service providers attempted to do years ago. But the technology has evolved and this time, cloud storage is real.

    • Rethinking cloud storage

      Cloud storage vendors might find a silver lining to the current economic cloud as companies try to cut costs. But enterprise storage shops are still wary.

More Premium Content Accessible For Free

Back to top