Tandberg Data joins The Green Grid to promote reduced energy consumption
Oslo, Norway (PRWEB) June 2, 2008
Tandberg Data, a global provider of data protection solutions, announced today that it has joined the Green Grid consortium. As a member of the consortium, Tandberg Data promoting reduced energy consumption by using more efficient, sustainable and scalable technologies.
The Green Grid is a global consortium dedicated to advancing energy efficiency in data centers and business computing ecosystems. It aims to provide recommendations to industry-wide best practices, measures, standards and technologies that will improve overall energy efficiency in data centers and business computing ecosystems by working with government agencies and key industry players. Joining The Green Grid is part of Tandberg Data’s initiative to reduce energy consumption and cost of operating an IT infrastructure.
As a global provider of data protection to small and medium businesses, or SMB, Tandberg Data recognizes that its customers see the need to move towards a more energy efficient. Tandberg Data understands the current and future challenges facing SMB opportunities and improving SMEs’ concerns and requirements.
video – “no power”, scalable medium
The band has evolved into a highly cost-effective, high-capacity backup and archival medium with multiple benefits. In addition to their low cost, other primary benefits include portability, reliability and reusability. tape media can be written, rewritten and safely stored for years. His steadfast reliability ensures mobility and corporate guarantees of the disaster. Tandberg Data solutions automated tape offer scalability through features such as Capacity on Demand, enabling customers to upgrade systems rather than replacing them, thus protecting their investments and at the same time reducing waste.
“Businesses typically spend 50% of the cost of acquiring a tape drive on electricity to operate,” says Bharat Kumer, Vice President of Marketing and Development at Tandberg Data. “By providing the energy industry there, combined with reusability and scalability of tape solutions from Tandberg Data will help customers on their way to a greener backup strategy.”
Designing a Green IT Strategy
For businesses, it is important to consider three areas:. An evaluation of the data center in order to reduce energy consumption and a formal evaluation of IT equipment recycling, and carbon footprint analysis
An important first step in this formal evaluation of the data center is to determine how much energy your storage consumes and what that energy costs. Once the energy has been determined, the next step is to calculate your fees. Once energy consumption and costs have been determined, recommendations can be developed on how energy consumption could be reduced without compromising the needs of businesses.
Tandberg Data will work with other members of The Green Grid to help develop energy efficient technologies, promote standards and provide best practices for end users.
About Tandberg Data
Tandberg Data is a global provider of data protection technologies. Tandberg Data offers a complete range of tape libraries, tape autoloaders and tape drives (based on the LTO ™, SLR ™ and VXA ® platforms tape technology), storage software, data media and storage on disk as the RDX ® QuikStor ™. These solutions are marketed exclusively through a network of qualified resellers and distributors.
These solutions are underpinned by OEM agreements with major server manufacturers including IBM, Hitachi, Fujitsu, Fujitsu-Siemens, Apple and Dell and supported by all major operating systems and software applications for storage operate in heterogeneous network environments. All solutions are designed to meet the growing storage needs of small and medium businesses with scalability, reliability and backward compatibility features that ensure cost effective operation and protection of long-term investments.
more offices in Oslo, Norway, TANDBERG DATA ASA has subsidiaries in the United States, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, Japan and Singapore, as well as branches in Italy, and China (PRC ) and Brazil. TANDBERG DATA ASA is a publicly traded company based in Oslo, Norway and is traded on the Oslo Stock Exchange (ticker = TAD).
For more information, please visit http://www.tandbergdata.com
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