GeneralEMC users push for better power consumption

EMC announces a 1.8 PB VTL, deduplication for VMware and bare-metal restore for servers as users caution the company to stay focused on everyday problems, such as power consumption.

"They need to find a way to turn down power -- this should be job one for these guys. They are worried about a lot of things, but this is a major problem for us," said a systems architect with a large aerospace and defense contractor who requested anonymity. This organization is building a new data center that will house 6 petabytes (PB) of storage, and has put advanced power and cooling technologies at the top of its design criteria. "Right now, EMC has an expensive consulting service and a power calculator, and that's not enough," this user said. More on power consumption IBM chief engineer talks green storage Brocade blasts Cisco on director switch power consumption SNW: Users thrash out green storage Copan users get electricity rebate with MAID arrays EMC's answer, according to CEO, Joe Tucci, is tiered storage. "Nothing helps as much as tiering" when it comes to saving power, he said during a press conference at the show. In other words, users need to classify their data according to usage patterns and move the infrequently accessed information to larger, slow spinning disks that consume less power. This is all well and good, users said, but more and more data is being kept online, which means more power consumption. Tucci said that "deduplication holds promise" to alleviate this issue and mentioned that the company is working on technology to spin down drives. However, this is complex technology and may require delicate tuning to achieve true energy... [ Read more on www.computerweekly.com ]

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