Green IT storage services guide: Evaluating storage options

Green storage solutions guide table of contents

• Green is still the color of money in storage

This green storage survey reveals how many clients plan to address green storage issues, which green technologies have been implemented and the reasons those technologies were chosen.

• New realities of green IT: STORAGE BIN 2.0

Green IT storage isn't just about reducing power and cooling costs in the data center; it's about advanced functions such as telepresence, telecommuting, compliance, security and radical business process reengineering.

• Wind-powered data center picks Atrato disk arrays
The founders of a green colocation company say Atrato's disk arrays, which use 2.5-inch drives, have boosted density and broadened green storage service offerings.

• Outsourcing clouds the green issue: Storage Bin 2.0

If you're using the cloud to become "green" fast, you should know that your provider is probably better at squeezing the green out of its operations than you might be, but it's not guaranteed.

• Green storage options for data centers

Learn which environmentally friendly and performance-enhancing storage technologies to recommend that can improve capacity management and control power usage in the data center.

• The green storage gap

Storage departments are trying energy-saving technologies, but measuring return on investment is still a challenge.

• Green data storage projects

Storage expert Greg Schulz talks about five important questions that every IT solutions provider should ask potential customers.

• Green data storage podcast

Storage expert Greg Schulz talks about tape-based data protection and low utilization and how they affect green data storage strategies.

• Green shops take MAID for a spin-down

Massive arrays of idle disks have become synonymous with disk spin-down, which has become synonymous with power savings.

• Best Practices: Planting seeds of green

Adopting green storage practices is all about being a good corporate citizen, trying to save storage operational costs and perhaps making a positive impact on the environment.

• Green storage quiz

Green storage services are steadily gaining momentum in the industry. But how much do you really know about this important topic? Take this quick quiz today and find out!

• Green power, weak dollars and more apps

Tighter budgets could mean some belt-tightening in your customers' storage shop. To save money, they might have to spend a little on key trends: virtualization, green storage and storage as a service.

• Virtualization and green storage technology overhype

Find out which aspects of virtualization storage and green storage technologies are overdone.