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

• To conduct research on power and cooling issues confronting storage administrators
• Educate the vendor and user community about the importance of power conservation in shared storage environments
• Leverage SNW and other SNIA and partner conferences to focus attention on energy efficiency for networked storage infrastructures
• Provide input to the SNIA Green Storage TWG on requirements for green storage metrics and standards
• Provide external advocacy and support of the technical work of the SNIA Green Storage Technical Working Group

The SNIA Emerald^TM Program Now Launched

View the press release on the recent launch of the SNIA Emerald^TM Program.

Download the SNIA Emerald^TM Program Launch Overview.

Go to the SNIA Emerald Program website.

SNIA Green Storage Specification and Membership Discount Announced.

The SNIA Membership has recently approved the SNIA Emerald^TM Power Efficiency Measurement Specification to be a publicly available SNIA Standard, which can be downloaded here.

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 Emerald^TM 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
SNIA Green Storage Initiative (GSI) is now offering a discounted membership program that includes favorable entitlements for the forthcoming SNIA Emerald^TM Program. The terms of the program are straightforward: 50% discount off the 12 month membership rate.

Please click here for membership rates.

The Green Storage Initiative Needs You!

Prepare to make a genuine difference by your company taking part in activities, collaborative efforts, and other educational and consciousness-raising events for the industry. Now is the opportunity to join and have an impact addressing these environmental challenges. The GSI has voting and non-voting membership levels ($9000 and $4500 annually; SNIA membership required), as well as individual/non-profit institutional memberships ($300; SNIA membership required). Please act today to join the companies listed below as proud members of the Green Storage Initiative.

For more information and membership, please contact GSI@snia.org.

Green Storage Initiative • Member Companies 2011