Green Storage

The SNIA Green Storage Community is dedicated to advancing energy efficiency and conservation in all networked storage technologies and minimizing the environmental impact of data storage operations.

Our Mission

Establish and maintain the SNIA Emerald™ Program for SNIA Emerald™ Energy Efficiency Measurement and conduct training of SNIA Emerald ™ testers and industry stakeholders
Educate the IT industry, vendor community and regulatory bodies on techniques to conserve energy for enterprise storage environments
Provide external advocacy and support of the technical work of the SNIA Green Storage Technical Working Group (TWG)
Provide input to the SNIA Green Storage TWG on requirements for green storage measurement specifications, metrics and standards
Establish and maintain cross-industry relationships and alliances to coordinate and advance data center energy efficiency related programs, test and measurement methods, and standards

Our scope

Green Storage drives SNIA Activities in the following Areas:

Technical Work Group Support – the Green Storage community provides support to the Green TWG which is responsible for developing the SNIA Emerald™ Power Efficiency Measurement Specification.
SNIA Emerald(TM) Test Program - the Green Storage Community provides training on the SNIA EmeraldTM Power Efficiency Measurement Specification, for use in EPA ENERGY STAR®. For information on training sessions, visit the Emerald Web Site or contact emerald@snia.org.
Green Storage establishes and maintains relationships with other organizations working to advance storage energy efficiency and conservation. Read more.

Technical Work

The Green Storage community provides funding, technical writing resources, education, promotion, and additional support and resources to Technical Work Groups (TWGs) developing technical content to advance standards-based storage energy efficiency and conservation.