Sunday, December 20, 2009

Storage Customers Seeing Green with Wikibon's Conserve IT

Partnership amid the utilities and IT industries accelerates the acceptance of blooming technologies. These seven arch companies admit that creating activity extenuative technology is a starting point and allowance barter apprehend the allowances of applying blooming technologies is the next step This affiliation amid the utilities and IT industries will advanced the acceptance of blooming technologies and this affairs will advice barter and vendors anon affix blooming articles to business value. Wikibon was able to defended accomplishment from PG&E for our InServ band of account accumulator arrays aural sixty days Wikibon's ability of the PG&E action accumulated with a agitating compassionate of accumulator virtualization badly accelerated our accomplishment and bargain the workload on our centralized team. We're agog about the affiliation with Wikibon in the approaching to defended incentives for barter both central and alfresco of California. Conserve IT will advice Compellent's barter authorize for activity incentives by employing innovations like virtualization, attenuate accessories and automated tiered accumulator to abate the drives bare to administer data, added blurred costs, ability burning and amplitude requirements Working with the Wikibon community, we are allowance end-users acquaintance actual bread-and-butter and ecology allowances by carrying next-generation accumulator accoutrement and assets that extend the achievement of their abstracts centers. The Web 2.0 abstracts access creates a claim for accumulator technologies that are awfully activity efficient Our S2A architectonics allows the use of ultra top accommodation SATA drives after compromising on performance. Together with Dynamic MAID, this translates into beneath spinning disks and lower activity consumption. We're aflame about teaming with Wikibon and the utilities industry to accommodate added incentives for our barter to conserve activity by adopting these beat technologies. EMC is committed to avant-garde technologies that advance activity efficiencies and to allowance barter accomplish optimal appliance of their IT infrastructure, abate operational costs and their ecology footprint EMC is captivated to coact with Wikibon to bigger accredit its barter to accept incentives from utilities for implementing activity able articles and processes. As enterprises always attending for means to abate ability and cooling costs, Conserve IT is accelerating the accomplishment action for our energy-efficient accumulator arrays with account companies so that our barter can acquire added allowances for implementing their Green IT initiatives With Conserve IT, Wikibon has approved industry administration to advice the user association aerate their acknowledgment on investment. We are appreciative to be a allotment of this program, which is carefully accumbent with the beat eyes and activities implemented above all Hitachi Ltd. companies for enabling greener abstracts centers. Nexsan acerb supports Conserve IT Rebates and added incentives are a key allotment to bazaar transformation and active added activity ability into the marketplace. Nexsan goes one footfall added by amalgam our activity accumulation AutoMAID technology as a amount affection of our solutions. Leading organizations apprehend that activity accumulation in accumulator is bound affective from a nice-to-have to must-have. For Xiotech, the Conserve IT affairs helps us definitively authenticate the activity ability of our new ISE technology And for our customers, it's the befalling to add to their activity accumulation with added incentives from utilities. This is a win-win affairs for everyone.

Marlborough, MA -- Wikibon, the world's aboriginal Web 2.0 technology analysis and advising community, today appear Conserve IT, a new account advised to abetment IT companies and their barter to authorize for rewards offered by Pacific Gas & Electric Company (PG&E) for installing energy-efficient equipment. Conserve IT is a first-of-its-kind account that accelerates the accomplishment of accumulator articles for activity rebates and provides absolute validation of activity ability for accumulator platforms from a amount of arch vendors, spanning arising Web 2.0 suppliers to the a lot of accustomed brands in the business.

Data centermost drape Conserve IT was launched on account of IT barter in the Wikibon association who capital to crop advantage of the accomplished programs PG&E and added utilities accept put in abode to conserve energy. The association acquainted that it could advice to badly access the accord of accumulator technologies which are above consumers of ability and cooling in abstracts centers. PG&E responded to Wikibon by allocating assets to advice authorize added accumulator technologies and accouterment advice to the accumulator industry at large.

Conserve IT is a new Wikibon casework advised to:
 

    Obtain the accomplishment of IT articles from account companies such as PG&E; Enable IT vendors to rapidly defended incentives for end customers; Widely deliver chump best practices on activity ability via Wikibon case studies.Conserve IT decidedly speeds the time-to-qualification, provides absolute validation of activity savings, after-effects in banknote incentives for barter and enables the administration of techniques for abbreviation activity burning in abstracts centers. Seven accumulator suppliers accept active on for Wikibon's Conserve IT and accept achieved, or are actively gluttonous accomplishment of their technologies with PG&E and added utilities. Those committed to acceptance the activity ability of their accumulator platforms cover 3PAR, Compellent, DataDirect Networks, EMC, Hitachi Data Systems, Nexsan and Xiotech.

    "These seven arch companies admit that creating activity extenuative technology is a starting point and allowance barter apprehend the allowances of applying blooming technologies is the next step," said David Vellante, Co-founder and Principal Contributor at Wikibon. "This affiliation amid the utilities and IT industries will advanced the acceptance of blooming technologies and this affairs will advice barter and vendors anon affix blooming articles to business value."

    PG&E incentives are based on the aggregate of activity accumulation accomplished by datacenters through the accession of energy-efficient accumulator technologies such as MAID, virtualization and attenuate provisioning. In addition, Wikibon and its technology audience are gluttonous accomplishment of tiered accumulator management, top body accumulator arrays, flash drives, able spindown, data de-duplication and added innovations. To authorize for these banking incentives, Northern and Central California PG&E barter have to administer for and be acclimatized into the allurement affairs above-mentioned to deploying new accumulator technologies.

    Participant Comments
    Suppliers accommodating in Wikibon's Conserve IT had the afterward comments:
    "Wikibon was able to defended accomplishment from PG&E for our InServ band of account accumulator arrays aural sixty days," said Craig Nunes, Vice President of Marketing at 3PAR. "Wikibon's ability of the PG&E action accumulated with a agitating compassionate of accumulator virtualization badly accelerated our accomplishment and bargain the workload on our centralized team. We're agog about the affiliation with Wikibon in the approaching to defended incentives for barter both central and alfresco of California."

    "Conserve IT will advice Compellent's barter authorize for activity incentives by employing innovations like virtualization, attenuate accessories and automated tiered accumulator to abate the drives bare to administer data, added blurred costs, ability burning and amplitude requirements," said Larry Aszmann, CTO and co-founder, Compellent. "Working with the Wikibon community, we are allowance end-users acquaintance actual bread-and-butter and ecology allowances by carrying next-generation accumulator accoutrement and assets that extend the achievement of their abstracts centers."

    "The Web 2.0 abstracts access creates a claim for accumulator technologies that are awfully activity efficient," said Paul Bloch, President, DataDirect Networks. "Our S2A architectonics allows the use of ultra top accommodation SATA drives after compromising on performance. Together with Dynamic MAID, this translates into beneath spinning disks and lower activity consumption. We're aflame about teaming with Wikibon and the utilities industry to accommodate added incentives for our barter to conserve activity by adopting these beat technologies."

    "EMC is committed to avant-garde technologies that advance activity efficiencies and to allowance barter accomplish optimal appliance of their IT infrastructure, abate operational costs and their ecology footprint," said Dick Sullivan, Director, Enterprise Marketing, EMC. "EMC is captivated to coact with Wikibon to bigger accredit its barter to accept incentives from utilities for implementing activity able articles and processes."

    "As enterprises always attending for means to abate ability and cooling costs, Conserve IT is accelerating the accomplishment action for our energy-efficient accumulator arrays with account companies so that our barter can acquire added allowances for implementing their Green IT initiatives," said Hu Yoshida, carnality admiral and CTO, Hitachi Data Systems. "With Conserve IT, Wikibon has approved industry administration to advice the user association aerate their acknowledgment on investment. We are appreciative to be a allotment of this program, which is carefully accumbent with the beat eyes and activities implemented above all Hitachi Ltd. companies for enabling greener abstracts centers."

    "Nexsan acerb supports Conserve IT," said Bob Woolery, chief carnality admiral of business for Nexsan. "Rebates and added incentives are a key allotment to bazaar transformation and active added activity ability into the marketplace. Nexsan goes one footfall added by amalgam our activity accumulation AutoMAID technology as a amount affection of our solutions. Leading organizations apprehend that activity accumulation in accumulator is bound affective from a nice-to-have to must-have."

    "For Xiotech, the Conserve IT affairs helps us definitively authenticate the activity ability of our new ISE technology," said Mike Hoch, carnality admiral of Marketing at Xiotech. "And for our customers, it's the befalling to add to their activity accumulation with added incentives from utilities. This is a win-win affairs for everyone."

    About Wikibon:
    Wikibon is a next bearing analysis and advising association accumulation Web 2.0 software technologies, all-around ability and accessible advising ability to accredit barter to affix with aeon and bigger administer technology portfolios.

    About Conserve IT:
    On account of its association members, Wikibon launched Conserve IT, an action advised to advanced the accord of accumulator and IT suppliers in programs such as PG&E's high-tech allurement offering. Wikibon enables IT suppliers to bound access utilities accomplishment and ensure third affair validation of activity efficiency. Wikibon aswell assists barter to appropriately administer for activity incentives and, through its case studies, broadly shares best practices with practitioners absorbed in convalescent abstracts centermost activity efficiency.

    About PG&E's High-Tech Incentive Programs:
    PG&E offers a absolute portfolio of programs and account offerings for the high-tech sector, including banking incentives for barter who accompany activity ability projects in their abstracts centers. PG&E barter in arctic and axial California who are absorbed in earning banking incentives for accumulator and added abstracts centermost ability measures have to administer above-mentioned to implementing projects and can acquisition added advice about the company's programs and account offerings at www.pge.com/hightech.

    © 2008 Wikibon. All rights reserved. Wikibon is a brand of Wikibon. All added trademarks and registered trademarks are the acreage of their corresponding owners.

    Contact:
    David Butler
    Wikibon HQ
    774-463-3400
    david.butler @ wikibon.org
    http://wikibon.org

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