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SAN JOSE, Calif. – (Business Wire) The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) announced today the availability for public review and comment its initial Green Storage Initiative (GSI) Green Storage Power Measurement Specification.

The initial Green Storage Power Measurement Specification includes a “Green Storage Taxonomy” for classifying storage products based on energy consumption characteristics and application environments, as well as a baseline standard for idle power metrics which can be applied as a uniform method for collecting idle power consumption measurements.

“This initial release of the Green Storage Power Measurement Specification will play an important role moving forward in helping the storage industry, standards-setting organizations, and global governmental agencies measure and shape the energy and power efficiency of storage systems,” said Leah Schoeb, Chairperson of the SNIA Green Storage Initiative. “The Green Storage Initiative is dedicated to applying the technical and educational expertise of our members to help develop more energy efficient solutions for the IT industry.”

This is great news, the more we can talk about base lines, of power metrics, the more we can illustrate the benefit of Green IT, of showing how it might meet your business needs and reduce your operating costs, it will be interesting to see what developments result from this announcement.

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