Tag: Energy Efficiency

Live Panel: Sustainability in the Data Center

Wayne Adams
As our data-driven global economy continues to expand with new workloads such as proven digital assets and currency, artificial intelligence and advanced healthcare, our data centers continue to evolve with denser computational systems and increased data stores. This creates challenges for sustainable growth and managing costs. On April 25, 2023, The SNIA Networking Storage Forum will explore this topic with a live webinar “Sustainability in the Data Center Ecosystem.” We’ve convened a panel of experts, who will cover a wide range of topics, including delivering more power efficiency per capacity, revolutionizing cooling to reduce heat, increasing system processing to enhance performance, infrastructure consolidation to reduce the physical and carbon footprint, and applying current and new metrics for carbon footprint and resource efficiency. Read More

What Secure Data Deletion Means

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The European Commission, Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs has issued COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) 2019/424 on 15 March 2019 laying down eco-design requirements for servers and data storage products pursuant to Directive 2009/125/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council and amending Commission Regulation (EU) No 617/2013.

While the focus is energy-related requirements, embedded in this regulation is a requirement for servers and storage systems having 4-400 drives (systems with less or more are exempted) to have an ability to perform secure data deletions; this functionality is required from 1 March 2020.

“Secure data deletion” means the effective erasure of all traces of existing data from a data storage device, overwriting the data completely in such a way that access to the original data, or parts of them, becomes infeasible for a given level of effort. Read More