Not all green storage is created equal.
There are business benefits to aligning the most energy efficient storage to meet different data and application requirements. All storage vendors are claiming some form of "green" or some power, cooling and floor space savings. This industry trends and perspectives brief looks at a category of storage to support secondary and near-line or off-line data needs, comparing performance with energy savings, to enable you to be the judge of who is the "greenest of all."

About the Author
Greg Schulz, Industry Analyst for The StorageIO group

Mr. Schulz has worked as a programmer, systems administrator, disaster recovery consultant, storage planner, capacity planner, systems engineer, technologist and storage industry analyst. Mr. Schulz has been involved with various storage related organizations including the computer measurement group (CMG), storage networking industry association (SNIA), RAID advisory board (RAB), and vendor specific user groups. In addition to being the author and illustrator of "Resilient Storage Networks - Designing Flexible Scalable Data Infrastructures (Elsevier)".