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Adaptec unveils a power management solution

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BENGALURU,INDIA: Adaptec Inc., a provider in storage solutions, today kicked off its Green Power initiative with the introduction of Adaptec Intelligent Power Management, a new capability that allows system OEMs, integrators and IT managers to easily custom-configure storage systems to reduce power consumption by up to 70 per cent without sacrificing performance.

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It is integrated into all of Adaptec’s high-performance, award-winning Series 5 and Series 2 unified serial RAID controllers, said a press release. It can be accessed through Adaptec Storage Manager software.

The Intelligent Power Management supports both SATA and SAS drives and is ideal for applications with large blocks of idle time, such as disk-to-disk backup, e-mail archiving and file and print servers, it added.

IT managers can configure banks of disk drives to operate in different power states at varying times, and automate the drives to spin up and down according to drive usage patterns.

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When drives are accessed during pre-configured spin-down to Standby or Power-off modes, Intelligent Power Management would quickly and automatically powers these drives back up, as needed, so performance is not impacted, it added.

Also, the Adaptec RAID controller automatically monitors drives that have been powered down for an extended period of time to ensure systems are still fully operational, allowing Intelligent Power Management to help reduce drive failures and increase drive life expectancy.

“As global data storage needs grow dramatically, so does the need for even more high-performance disk drives. Disk drives consume about 33 percent of all the storage in an IT environment2 and are one of the most energy-intensive components in any computing system,” said Suresh Panikar, director of worldwide marketing, Adaptec.

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He added that with Intelligent Power Management, they would expand the capabilities of their RAID controllers to address this issue.

“The storage industry continues to offer up a variety of solutions to help end customers to conserve energy,” said Dave Reinsel, vice president, storage and semiconductors, IDC group.

He added that IPM solutions would provide IT managers the flexibility in managing disk drives at various power states and spin speeds, are an important part of the overall equation in bringing more efficiency to the data center.

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