SNIA Specifications for Energy Efficiency Measurement

SNIA Green Storage work group will provide an update on SNIA Emerald specification work for storage systems, to update its block IO and filesystem IO workloads, and test& measurement tools. Additionally, an update will be provided on stroage device testing specification, the tools, the workloads, and the flexibility to create organization specific/application specific workloads. Both test specification provide industry building blocks for industry regulators to set regional requirements for energy usage and efficiency for data storage in the data center. Additionally, these specifications lay a vendor neutral foundation on how an organization can compare and contrast industry options with identical criteria. These specification have been referenced of interest to USA EPA EnergyStar, European Union Lot 9, and Japan TopRunner regulatory programs. These methods and tools in the specification provide a pillar of information that can lend to a vendor company reporting a device or system Life Cycle Assessment for power usage over its life-time of use.

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