HP ‘cuts power and cooling costs in half’
Introduced at the HP Americas StorageWorks Conference, the Adaptive Infrastructure offerings are said to include thin provisioning and performance enhancements for the HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA) family, tape drives based on the Linear Tape Open (LTO) 4 standard, DAT 160 tape drives for SMEs, and an HP StorageWorks tape product developed exclusively for HP BladeSystem c-Class enclosures.
According to analyst firm, StorageIO Group, storage currently accounts for 37% to 40% of overall data centre energy usage from hardware.
“Power and cooling is a key enabler for an Adaptive Infrastructure, and these environmentally responsible storage products will help to address two key areas that our customers care about: saving money and conserving energy,” says Yesh Surjoodeen, business unit manager, StorageWorks Division, HP.
The HP StorageWorks EVA4100, 6100 and 8100 midrange disk arrays improve power efficiency for customers by up to 45% compared to previous EVAs, with performance improvements of up to 24%, he adds.
Using hardware and software technologies such as EVA Dynamic Capacity Management (DCM), Vsnap and FATA disk drives, the EVAs are designed to help customers to optimise hard drive utilisation, to eliminate unnecessary HDD storage disk purchases, to shrink their carbon footprint and to manage efficiently IT resources and storage provisioning tasks.
“We did a study in 2006 that found that 55% of end-users we surveyed left between 30 and 50% of their storage capacity stranded,” says Tony Asaro, senior analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group, an industry analyst firm focused on storage and information management.
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