Abstract
The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) Green Storage Initiative (GSI) today announced the availability of the SNIA Emerald™ Power Efficiency Measurement Specification V2.0 and the SNIA Emerald™ User Guide V2.0. The revised specification includes a new active workload IO profile named hot band, commonly called “hot-banding.” In combination, the SNIA Emerald specification provides a vendor-neutral power efficiency test measurement set of methods and the SNIA Emerald Program provides an industry-wide repository of measured test data.