Green Storage Initiative (GSI)
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
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EPA Invites Storage Industry to Meeting; July EPA Meeting to Outline Energy Star Program for Storage Products
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will be hosting an in-person stakeholder meeting to review feedback on the ENERGY STAR
Specification Framework document and to discuss initial plans for a Draft 1
specification.
The meeting is scheduled
for Monday, July 20, 2009, from 11 AM to 4 PM Pacific Time, at the Sainte
Claire Hotel in San Jose, CA, in conjunction with SNIA's Technical Symposium. Additional information and RSVP
details will be distributed early next week.
Stakeholders are
encouraged to submit feedback on the Specification Framework to Storage@energystar.gov no later
than Friday, July 3, 2009. SNIA is currently developing an industry response to the EPA; company representatives should engage SNIA in these document development activities for alignment and coordination.
The latest ENERGY STAR documentation is
available for download at www.energystar.gov/newspecs.
Visit GSI News and Events for more information
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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 ($5000 and $2500 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 • Strategic (Voting) Member Companies 2009
Green Storage Initiative • Associate (Non-Voting) Member Companies 2009
Pliant Technologies
Quantum Corporations
