ONStor Joins Green Movement

CAMPBELL, Calif. -- ONStor Inc., the leading provider of scalable clustered NAS solutions for the enterprise, today announced a strong foothold in the greening of the data center” movement by enabling companies to drastically reduce power consumption in their IT environment by deploying ONStor storage solutions, which have built-in advanced power management and file server consolidation technology. Responding to the recent Climate Savers Computing Initiative, which calls for computer makers and their customers to adopt technologies that significantly reduce energy consumption, ONStor outlined the savings it brings to businesses as compared with traditional direct-attached and networked storage environments, with up to:

By 2010, the Climate Savers Computing Initiative seeks to reduce global CO2 emissions from the operation of computers by 54 million tons per year, equivalent to the annual output of 11 million cars or 10–20 coal-fired power plants. The initiative’s projected result is a 50% reduction in power consumption by computers by 2010; committed participants could collectively save $5.5 billion in energy costs.

The Uptime Institute, in its "The Economic Breakdown of Moore's Law,” lists “Virtualizing Servers” among its top five recommendations for saving energy in the data center. ONStor scalable clustered NAS systems, which are deployed across a broad range of demanding enterprise IT applications including large-scale Windows server consolidation, Internet content delivery, and digital imaging, virtualize multiple physical file systems across both ONStor virtual file servers and Windows file servers. The resulting server consolidation exerts a smaller footprint on the data center floor, inherently drawing less power and requiring far less cooling. ONStor's systems typically replace up to 10 file servers with a single NAS appliance that is only 1.75 inches high. Moreover, ONStor's advanced power management, standard on all units, uses only 160 watts of power per NAS appliance. Each NAS appliance draws a little over 1 AMP of power consumption – 55% lower than the industry standard.

Bob Miller, ONStor’s CEO, states, “Green programs that are sweeping the IT industry, such as The Climate Savers Computing Initiative and the EPA’s Energy Star Program, validate what we’ve been offering our customers all along: high-performance storage solutions that cut down on unnecessary energy consumption, reducing costs and carbon dioxide emissions. By exceeding these

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