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Power Consumption in the Data Center: How NetApp Rises to the Challenge

Overview Electricity continues to be a significant portion of the total cost of ownership for data centers. In particular, the power & cooling of IT equipment constitutes a significant portion of any data center's expenditure. Naturally, finding ways to reduce this energy consumption is of critical importance to data center managers, as energy is also a rising social and environmental concern. By providing the most space-efficient storage solution, NetApp helps data center managers alleviate the poor & cooling issue, allowing customers to deploy less storage hardware to meet the same IT application needs. This paper outlines NetApp's space-saving technologies as well as their potentials for reducing power.

Further White Paper Details
Publisher	Network Appliance (NetApp)	File Format	PDF
Date Published	October 2006
Format	White Papers
Topics	Storage Management, Data Center

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