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SNIA: “We can work together to achieve new possibilities.”

Tuesday 27. January 2009 - The SNIA participated as an invited association sponsor at the recent United Nations IT Infrastructure Conference on Climate Change along with several vendor SNIA members including Dell, EMC, HP, IBM, Seagate, and Sun.

Vincent Franceschini, chairman of the board of the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA), offered these thoughts on the recent conference at which EMC’s Jeff Nick spoke on IT and climate change.
The SNIA participated as an invited association sponsor at the recent United Nations IT Infrastructure Conference on Climate Change along with several vendor SNIA members including Dell, EMC, HP, IBM, Seagate, and Sun. Together we were able to support the U.N.’s Global Alliance for ICT and Development objectives while advocating the mission of the SNIA Green Storage Initiative and focusing attention on issues relating to green computing, in particular, green storage. I was pleased to be in attendance and most proud of the contributions of our member companies.
The surging interest within the IT community in energy efficiency and conservation signals a hopeful step in the right direction to reduce the impact of IT operations on the environment. We’re seeing a vigorous level of activity from storage and IT vendors of all types offering thought leadership and innovation to the universal challenge of creating a sustainable environment.
Users have a limitless appetite for information access and ubiquity, a factor that creates tremendous opportunity for us all, but also a burgeoning demand for scarce energy and resources needed to sustain the digital world. We can—as a globally vital industry—work together to achieve new possibilities in enabling sustainable data storage operations that reduce both the cost and the environmental impact of data center infrastructures and information management. The SNIA launched its Green Storage Initiative (www. snia.org/forums/green) to specifically address the environmental issues in the data center for storage solutions.