Data Compression for Streamlining Energy Costs

[RobRich]

Data compression is already well deployed to save on storage costs, but Storwize Inc. is advocating a step further by using real-time data compression to save on expensive data center energy costs. The company claims it can reduce energy requirements for certain data center operations by up to 95%.

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Real-time data compression reduces the amount of data written to storage devices and thus reduces CPU, disk, memory, and network utlilization on the storage system. It can do this through its patent-pending algorithms that allow write and read operations from any location within the file while avoiding the need to decompress the whole file.

Source: EcoGeek