How to Implement Green Storage

Green computing has been around for quite a few years and is gradually becoming an essential part of business strategy. Many companies have already adopted green ways of handling IT processes to cut down costs and be more energy efficient. In this regard, green storage concepts are also becoming an integral part of storage management.

Intel, for instance, came out with the world’s fastest Skylane processors a while back, which focuses on energy savings. Currently, Skylane processors are only used in few devices like the Surface Pro 4.

What is Green Storage?

Green storage is not exactly a single process or a product that companies take up. It is a strategy to lower power consumption and utilize resources in optimum ways. Organizations move to more energy efficient products and adopt better ways to deal to with space, cooling and energy.

How to implement Green Storage

Enterprises need to adopt more energy efficient hardware and innovative methods. Small size hard disks can be replaced with higher capacity ones without changing the power consumption. For example, a 500 GB hard disk can be changed with a 1 TB to increase storage space without increasing power demand.

Storage drive designs also help in ways of Green Storage. Some HDDs allow the spindles to rest or reduce speed when they are not being actively used. Organizations should go for such models of HDDs. Use of Controllers, disk arrays and other such systems also help in Green Storage by enabling low power modes.