Powering and cooling
IT equipment has an increasing drain on data center
resources. According to Gartner, storage accounts
for 37% of the data center's overall power consumption.
With enterprise storage growing at the rate of
over 50% per year to match the data growth, IT
energy costs are skyrocketing. Gartner states
that energy costs will emerge as the second-highest
operating cost in 70% of data center facilities
in 2009. In comparison, IDC estimate that storage
power costs will reach over $2B in 2009. The need
to control both the data growth and storage power
costs is an increasing pressure for IT-managers.
Thankfully, controlling data growth can effectively
help IT curb storage power costs.
Actively managing the data on your storage devices
will help curb escalating data growth and upwards
spiralling energy costs. Designing policies using
Storage Quotas and File Blocking Quotas allows
you to:
- control usage
- get growth rates under control,
- establish awareness among users about what
they save
These straightforward policies require minimum
administration yet achieve amazing results, dramatically
cutting data centre energy consumption. Why power
and cool data that you don’t need? |
