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Data Center Solutions Moving in Green Direction

Posted on October, Monday 10, 2011 By itVAR News Network

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Driven by a need to reduce ever-rising energy costs and a will to take the green route, data centers are moving towards embracing green technologies that are designed to deliver more from less.

Powerful business applications, Internet-fueled data growth, compliance pressures, governance, litigation defense: multiple pressures are spurring corporations to produce and store more data than ever before. Server, storage and networking vendors have responded by producing ever more powerful equipment to boost performance, speed and availability.

However, there is a high cost to housing and processing this much data. In this situation, Enterprises are buying more and more energy to keep the lights on and the disks spinning, and to run the heavy duty cooling required for the heat generated by dense storage and servers.

This is a large-scale problem, and the goal of the green data center movement must be to control energy output on the same large scale. Only this approach will yield the large savings needed to offset spiraling energy costs. In situations where energy cost is a lower priority than data center size, green technologies can allow companies to control the growth of its data center.

Challenges Galore

Experts believe that the growth of data itself is a huge challenge. As big as this challenge is, there are ways to meet it now and in the near future. In fact, the primary equation sounds deceptively simple: reduce data capacity and reduce energy consumption. The trick of course is to shrink data in complex data center environments where large-scale deletions may not be possible. This is where crucial software technologies that dramatically reduce stored data come into play.

Hunger for Energy

In the past, energy was never IT s concern. Energy was cheap and plentiful, and the sole concern of the facilities managers and the accountants who paid the utility bills. Even as data center equipment grew in size and quantity to handle the glut of data being produced, facilities departments simply increased the budget and accounting departments paid the bills.

Each new element was carefully fitted into data center racks until the physical plant groaned under the load with creaking raised floors, inefficient cooling, and raging electric bills. Many data center managers realized that they had the space to add equipment, but would not have enough electricity available to power it.

Hence, today IT‘s defining moment was not so much the high energy bills traditionally large enterprises lookout out the fact that soon their data center would simply be too energy starved to accept the server, networking and storage resources that it was demanding. As a result, today’s data center solutions are moving in the right direction. The green direction of ‘Nirvana’ for the overall IT community.

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