SAS drive technology, blazing IOPS and throughput, high transactional databases . . . and green technology. SAS drive technology + ultra green technology. It doesn’t quite sound like peanut butter and jelly does it? You wouldn’t take a race car and create a ‘green hybrid’ out of it. And why is that? Because you’re not expecting fuel mileage from a race car, you expect performance. That’s why you have it.
There is a general assumption about green technology that pervades our collective conscious – in order to reap the benefits, you must accept the limitations.
But, it’s 2009, all ready! And it’s time to change the rules. There’s ground breaking work that’s been done with the latest SAS drive technology that is changing the perceived norms about energy efficiency and SAS. With it, we’re delivering the benefits of green without the limitations. For the first time, someone is giving you speed . . . with green.
Don’t write this off! Take a closer look. Is energy efficiency something that should be expected from SAS technology? Absolutely. Why? Because even though a SAS drive may need to go really fast when asked, there is no need to keep the drive spinning at full speed all the time, even when there are no I/O requests.
You certainly wouldn’t keep the engine of a Formula One race care running full bore even after the driver, the crew, and the fans have gone home for the night. Checkered flag drops, so do those RPMs!
As ridiculous as that might sound in the racing industry, it’s precisely what happens in the storage industry all around the world. Office demand slows or falls off completely, employees go home for the night, the weekend, holidays . . . but high performance SAS systems run at full power, full speed even when there is no demand.
We innovated the green storage space with AutoMAID technology by delivering the high performance you expect from SAS with energy efficiency you didn’t know was possible. AutoMAID places disks in an idle state during inactivity while providing near instantaneous access to data when needed. And this is not simple spin up, spin down techniques. This is sophisticated technology that operates on an entirely different, policy-based principal. By doing so, AutoMAID uniquely delivers the benefits of green without limitations. Speed with Green.
