16th November 2007

Compellent Technologies has announced it has become a member of The Green Grid. The Green Grid is a global consortium of technology leaders dedicated to advancing energy efficiency in data centers and computing eco-systems. In addition, Compellent was chosen to showcase its storage technology as part of the Eco-Friendly Zone in the Inside Innovation Pavilion at Oracle OpenWorld 2007 which took place this week.

“We are thrilled that Compellent’s technology will be featured in the Eco-Friendly Zone at Oracle OpenWorld. In combination with our membership with The Green Grid, it shows Compellent’s true focus on increasing energy efficiency in data centers,” said Larry Aszmann, chief technology officer and co-founder of Compellent. “As a member of The Green Grid, Compellent will continue to contribute as an active participant creating and offering energy-efficient, virtual data center technology.”

Oracle OpenWorld attendees saw how Compellent storage technologies enable the “green” data center and meet with product specialists at Compellent’s Eco-Friendly Zone booth in the Moscone North-Upper Lobby Exhibition Hall at the Moscone Convention Center in San Francisco. Compellent also demonstrated its storage area network (SAN) validated with Oracle Unbreakable Linux.

Compellent’s SAN can help companies enhance the efficiency of data storage and overcome the challenges created by unrestrained data center growth. By combining technologies such as automated tiered storage, thin provisioning and storage virtualization, Compellent helps enterprises better utilize capacity and decrease storage costs, and consequently minimize the costs of powering, cooling and housing equipment. As a result, companies can drastically reduce total data center costs while also slashing the environmental impact of running their data centers.

Meanwhile, in the UK, a survey by Aperture Technologies revealed that many UK data centre managers have invested in technology to manage energy but do not yet have a green policy in place.

Researchers at a London Aperture event for data centre managers asked delegates whether they had a green policy for the data centre. One third admitted that they did not, and a further 10% did not know.

However, 90% of data centres have introduced a monitoring system for the data centre, and over two thirds of all those surveyed (67%) said that the most important reason for doing so was to measure the power consumption of racks. Cooling was also listed by many as the most important reason to have a monitoring system in place.