About the SNIA Emerald Program

The SNIA Emerald Program is sponsored, operated, and promoted by the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) Green Storage Initiative (GSI). The SNIA is a non-profit, international organization of manufacturers, systems integrators, developers, systems vendors, industry professionals, and end users. The GSI is responsible for managing the SNIA Emerald Program, providing input and guidance to the Green Storage Technical Working Group (GS-TWG), and general marketing of energy efficiency activities within the SNIA and the storage networking industry.

The purpose of the SNIA Emerald Program is to provide a uniform format for reporting storage system power requirements, as well as a fair and equitable measurement of storage system power usage and efficiency under various workloads through use of a well-defined set of metrics and test procedures. Toward this end, the SNIA Emerald Power Efficiency Measurement Specification was developed by the GS-TWG and approved by the SNIA membership. It is maintained by the GS-TWG under the guidance of the GSI.