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With increasingly rising demands for information any where and at any time, datacenters have grown immensely larger and more power hungry. The issue of energy efficiency and low power consumption is now a major consern due to the growth in these datacenters and the rise in their energy cost. Because of this, in today’s storage industry the term “Green IT” is ubiquitous. Reasons for this is that datacenters are consuming energy at a rate which if remain constant can risk disruptive failures in their technology infrastructure and depletion of natural resources. Below is a chart illustrating the energy cost comparison between 2000 and 2005:
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