Data center storage costs can be reduced in eight ways

Due to the advent of technology, and more specifically the internet, in our everyday routines, we've become more dependent on data, therefore, we've needed to figure out a way to store it. The market is flooded with new and improved ways of managing and storing data, and so for many companies, finding data center storage solutions is proving to be a somewhat onerous task.

As a result, it has become increasingly important to identify a company or consulting firm that offers more than just data storage management and data center storage solutions, but also other data and IT-related services. It is Bay Tech Recovery's specialty, and it is good at it.

Most storage vendors claim that their technology reduces cooling and power consumption. Almost every pitch includes a kernel of truth, since anything that decreases data volume also reduces energy consumption. To save energy, follow these eight tips.

1. It involves moving data to cheaper systems or eliminating it as its value decreases and is as much a management philosophy as it is a technology. A number of vendors provide software and services to help customers implement ILM. In addition, EMC Corp. recently launched a program allowing customers to estimate energy consumption under different workload conditions for specific EMC products.
2. Virtualization is another common data center strategy that uses both servers and storage more efficiently by combining physical devices into logical "pools" that can be used more effectively than separate, standalone devices. Organizations can reduce their power usage by reducing the amount of physical servers and storage they need. Using extremely dense racks of servers and storage can also increase power demands because the power capacity of a datacenter is exhausted long before it is physically full.
3. By storing only the differences between old and new copies, or by reading data as it is written to the backup device and storing only the unique data, de-duplication and compression can result in a 20-to-1 reduction in storage needs.
4. As storage servers from vendors such as 3PARdata allocate logical capacity as the applications are expected to need, but allocate physical capacity based on what the applications actually require, the need for additional drives is postponed. Storage managers can juggle capacity and buy drives with this approach, also known as thin provisioning.
5. It is possible to save more energy by using MAID (massive array of idle disks) storage from companies like Copan Systems, Inc. With this technology, only the data needed from the drive is spun up. In applications such as transaction processing, which need a high level of performance, MAID can be unsuitable due to the extra time necessary to spin up the drive.
6. However, other vendors use either specially designed hardware or software to manage overall storage costs and therefore power consumption. Among other claims, BlueArc Corp. claims its Titan 2200 file server, which can be used as the front end for multiple storage-area networks or network-attached storage systems, is 30% cooler than competing high-end NAS hardware. Paul Speciale, vice president of product management at Gami Systems Inc., says the company uses 64-bit Opteron chips to create high-performance NAS servers that use half the power and take up one-eighth the space of other NAS hardware.
7. Storage arrays and other hardware vendors have built temperature sensors into them to direct cooling to where it is most needed. Hewlett-Packard claims, for example, that its Dynamic Smart Cooling System can reduce a data center's energy consumption by 25% to 40%.
8. In the future, centralized power distribution systems, rather than individual power supplies that convert AC power into DC power, may be employed to replace AC power supplies that convert power to DC for servers and storage devices. Some small server vendors have switched to DC power as centralized systems are more efficient than servers and storage shipped with individual power supplies.

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