Various estimates show the storage accounts for 30-40 percent of the power used in data centers. IDC estimates that storage accounts for 37 percent of overall data center power consumption. With energy costs rising and the potential for energy surcharges, this issue is rapidly becoming a top business concern.
Green Data Systems defined 5 steps to come to eco friendly data solutions and services. Enterprises are requiring storage solutions that:
- have lower power consumption and heat output;
- can be configured to further reduce cooling requirements in data centers
- meet environmental directives regarding construction and recycling
- are manyfactured by suppiers who have a green supply chain;
- come form socially responsible suppliers.
Together with vendors such as Hitachi Data Systems (HDS), Brocade and CommVault represented by Green Data Systems as their ‘channel managing partner’ in the Benelux and Germany offers Green Data Systems various eco friendly data solutions and services. Moreover offers Green Data Systems an utility based storage services portfolio, in which on-line data storage, archiving and replication is offered. Flexibility and reliability are the keywords in this offering, based on the 5 Green needs as mentioned above.
The company Green Data Systems developed itself past 3 years enormously. End of 2006 the start was made to go international. Today Green Data Systems has activities in Belgium, Germany, Luxembourg and in the Netherlands. Green Data Systems is the leading Green Value Add Distributor in data solutions and services. Besides its data utility solutions Green Data Systems is channel managing partner of a.o. Brocade, B2Store, CommVault, Hitachi Data Systems (HDS), Decru, Double-Take, Emulex, FalconStor, Sunbelt Software and Quantum.
