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BOULDER, Colo.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Spectra Logic, the data storage innovator, today announced its membership in The Green Grid. The Green Grid is a global consortium dedicated to advancing energy efficiency in data centers and business computing ecosystems. Spectra Logic’s membership will extend the company’s knowledge and resource bank on end user needs for energy efficiency in storage.

Spectra Logic designs its intelligent Secondary Storage disk appliances and tape libraries with the EnergyAuditâ„¢ power usage and monitoring feature included standard. EnergyAudit taps directly into the power supply to track how much power is in use real time, and can report the data in watts per cubic foot, square foot or terabyte. Spectra Logic designs power efficiency savings into all secondary storage platforms. For example, the Spectra T950 annual energy costs for power and cooling are more than 50 percent less than other enterprise-class tape libraries.

Very cool, the more vendors and organizations that join The Green Grid, the more we can look at the issues from the big picture, to establish industry and solution wide best practicies. Implementing an energy effiicent solution could not only reduce the operational costs, but could be a real return on investment and a business enabler – for example a virtualization solution might be more energy efficient, but the ability to dynamically provision a server, a virtual desktop to meet that business need could be just as important if not more so to an end user.

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