Data centers are under increasing pressure to efficiently manage their power and cooling expenses. Market researcher IDC estimates that for every euro spent on new hardware, an additional 50 cent is spent on power and cooling. This is more than double the amount spent five years ago. According to IDC research, over the next five years the expense to power and cool the worldwide installed base of servers is projected to increase four times the growth rate of new server spending.
Energy efficiency is one of the most pressing issues facing the IT industry. As a leader in protecting the environment and innovative energy-efficiency initiatives, Green Data Systems is focused on providing offerings that can help sharply reduce energy consumption by servers, racks and data centers to help companies transform the world's business infrastructures into "green" data centers.
Green Data Systems’ technology can help you every step of the way. Whether you need to evaluate your existing facilities, plan an energy-efficient data center, size control with power management software or see significant energy savings, Green Data Systems’ technologies can help your data center operate in a safe and more efficient environment.
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.
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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
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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.
