Overland Joins The Green Grid

By Greg McNevin

March 26, 2008: Data protection specialist Overland has become the latest company to join the Green Grid, an industry group striving to build more efficient data centres with more sustainable storage.

Four steps for building more efficient data centres with sustainable storage feature Overland's tiered data protection solutions

Citing an overarching goal to collaborate with fellow industry stakeholders as well as share insight on how to reduce storage and data centre energy consumption and costs, Overland says its tiered data protection solutions represent one of the steps in bringing a “green” data centre online.

While the word “green” is being brashly thrown about by every company concerned about its public profile, the Green Grid is a more solid initiative seeking to provide best practice recommendations, metrics and technologies that it says will improve overall data centre and business computing energy efficiencies.

And with the amount of stored data exponentially growing, data centres are in dire need of optimisation. According to Overland Storage president and CEO Vern LoForti, improving storage efficiency while optimising power consumption is a data centre priority worldwide.

“Organisations are seeking more effective and economical solutions to mitigate the impact of continually rising data storage,” says LoForti. “Overland's membership in The Green Grid underscores our continuing commitment to help our customers take advantage of the latest in energy-efficient technologies and power-management strategies to drive down energy costs and conserve data storage usage.”

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