I'm pleased to see more attention being given to energy reduction, and specifically to energy reduction in data center equipment. An increasing number of announcements, news items and blogs are giving equal time to energy reduction – the lesser known sibling to alternative clean energy sources.
As Joe Polastre noted in this blog, the foundation of energy independence consists of two fundamental efforts – alternative, clean energy sources alongside the reduction of energy. Driving hard on both efforts is key to making progress on our goals here. With much national, and international attention paid to clean energy, it was gratifying to see some recent announcements regarding energy reduction.
After Bob Davis, Sentilla CEO, wrote about the new SNIA draft specification for power measurement of storage equipment, I was curious how SNIA would tackle the power problem. In particular, I wanted to see if SNIA was going to give IT managers a way to get a handle on their storage efficiency -- determining which disks should be replaced and which equipment is more efficient for each type of data.