Looking To Go Green When It Comes To Storage?
Tuesday, September 7th, 2010Dear Data-Diligent Reader,
Today everyone is looking to reduce costs, and a company’s IT environment can account for up to 40% of their energy consumption. Smart IT departments are evaluating their IT environments for ways to reduce their energy requirements. One obvious way is to not spend money on storage you don’t need.
There is no doubt that today’s data centers are huge energy consumers. Some studies say that they account for between 1.2 and 2.0 percent of electricity consumed in the United States. It is also a known fact that many of the servers in the data centers run at a low utilization level of only 10% to 15%.
One way to reduce your power consumption is to adopt the cloud-computing model for infrastructure, applications and storage. For instance, look at business applications that are not critical to your business or those you can’t afford to maintain with a separate IT group in-house – such as CRM apps, HR/HCM, Backup and Restore, Security etc. Instead of running these applications on your data center, you should consider using applications provided by third-party service providers. This, in turn, reduces the number of servers in your data center – which means you have less energy consumption.
Accurately forecasting your storage requirements is difficult. You may be able to forward predict your data growth and purchase storage hardware on an as-needed basis. But what if your business is seasonal or growing and you don’t have prior years’ usage patterns to rely on? This is where cloud storage can help. Instead of buying and managing hardware in anticipation of future requirements, cloud storage allows you to simply contract for storage “on demand.”
In the past “green IT” was a nice to have. But in today’s economic environment power consumption costs are very visible and organizations are looking to the benefits of green approaches and expecting quicker ROIs for any incremental investments.
Data Mountain delivers on the promise of cloud storage for business data through its enterprise Storage-as-a-Service solutions. As the trusted Storage-as-a-Service leader, Data Mountain solutions, utilizing Iron Mountain’s services, are based on enterprise storage infrastructure and requirements, which add levels of security, scale, control and access not found in standard cloud storage. Contact us to learn how Data Mountain’s PC and server online backup and inactive data archiving services can make stored data actionable, reduces risk, creates efficiencies and controls costs, thereby creating peace of mind. All with the added benefit of reducing your power consumption requirements and costs.
We would love to hear your thoughts. Please comment below!
bob.chaput@datamountain.com | (800) 704-3394 | Follow Bob on Twitter: twitter.com/BobChaput
September 2010 HIPAA-HITECH Data Protection eNewsletter Published
Wednesday, September 1st, 2010Dear Data-Diligent Reader,
Our September 2010 Data Protection eNewsletter has been published.
We continue to feature HIPAA Security Rule and HITECH Act data security updates, including the link to the US Department of Health and Human Services’ “Wall of Shame” — its Data Breach Notification web page.
Please enjoy our analysis and links to industry articles and white papers that we’ve researched and assembled for you. I’m confident you’ll find a nugget or two among them!
We would love to hear your thoughts. Please comment below!
bob.chaput@datamountain.com | (800) 704-3394 | Follow Bob on Twitter: twitter.com/BobChaput
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