StoreIT

Customers are continuing to look for ways to reduce energy consumption and increase efficiencies to meet there Green IT objectives. Many businesses have achieved the green benefits of virtualising their servers however many have failed to fully realise the opportunity through storage virtualisation.

A recent IDC paper showed that when combined with server virtualisation, virtualised shared storage can increase capacity utilisation by 300%. With the daily power consumption of a typical data centre equivalent to the monthly power consumption of thousands of homes, and with less than half of all UK data centres fully optimised; there are many Storage Virtualisation opportunities out there.