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GREEN IT

With increasingly rising demands for information any where and at any time, datacenters have grown immensely larger and more power hungry. The issue of energy efficiency and low power consumption is now a major concern due to the growth in these datacenters and the rise in their energy cost. Because of this, in today’s storage industry the term “Green IT” is ubiquitous. Reasons for this is that datacenters are consuming energy at a rate which if remain constant can risk disruptive failures in their technology infrastructure and depletion of natural resources. Below is a chart illustrating the energy cost comparison between 2000 and 2005:

Electricity Cost

Below is a chart to further break down the cost to more precise detailed numbers in terms of monthly wattage.

Industrial Rates Utilities

HOW IS STEC ADDRESSING ENERGY EFFICIENT SOLUTIONS?

STEC is addressing the ever demanding need for low power consumption by re-thinking an old model of “more is better” to a “smarter more efficient” model. By doing so, STEC is able to alleviate bottlenecks in both energy consumption and greatly increase performance gains. Studies show that 60% of (pre-2005) datacenter facility will not be able to supply the needs of future performance and low energy demands due to legacy components.

For tomorrow’s storage demands,,
legacy products such as traditional hard disk drives are unable to maintain the increase in performance to satisfy such energy and performance needs. STEC has alleviated this issue by introducing its family of enterprise class solid state drives, ZeusIOPS and the MACH8 SSD family. By reducing energy consumption by up to 98% and by increasing performance 200 times over traditional hard disk drives, STEC is delivering a more energy efficient way of improving datacenters for tomorrow’s computing needs.
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For tomorrow’s memory demands,,
legacy products such as DDR modules (2.6V) and DDR2 (1.8V) are quickly being replace due to their inability to perform at tomorrow’s energy and performance standards. STEC is addressing this issue by introducing a 1.5V DDR2 module (for current DDR2 systems) and the next generation in memory storage, DDR3 (1.5V). With 1.5V low voltage, STEC new DDR3 and 1.5V DDR2, energy consumption is reducing to same much as 45% over legacy memory modules.
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