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The SNIA Green Storage Initiative (GSI) is dedicated to advancing energy efficiency and conservation in all networked storage technologies and minimizing the environmental impact of data storage operations. The GSI’s mission
The SNIA EmeraldTM Program Now LaunchedView the press release on the recent launch of the SNIA EmeraldTM Program. Download the SNIA EmeraldTM Program Launch Overview. Go to the SNIA Emerald Program website. SNIA Green Storage Specification and Membership Discount Announced.
The specification is the culmination of over three years of SNIA Green TWG technical work and cross-industry collaboration. The significance of this specification is it can be a foundation for national bodies working on green IT and data center energy efficiency equipment programs to cross-reference. For individuals planning for and implementing the Measurement Specification, a user guide is available to download. The User Guide provides advice on how to develop a product family definition beyond the Measurement Specification taxonomy, determine appropriate test configurations, set up and complete the measurement sequence, use a sample Vdbench script for workload generation, avoid problems and submit results. This new SNIA EmeraldTM released specification defines methodologies and metrics for the evaluation of the related performance and energy consumption of storage products in specific active and idle states. Storage products and components are said to be in an “active” state when they are processing externally-initiated, application-level requests for data transfer between host(s) and the storage product(s). For purposes of this specification, idle is defined as “ready idle”, in which storage systems and components are configured, powered up, connected to one or more hosts and capable of satisfying externally-initiated, application-level initiated I/O requests within normal response time constraints, but no such I/O requests are being submitted.
SNIA GSI Discounted Membership Program Announced Please click here for membership rates.
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