HDS Unveils Green Data Center
News Source: Byte and Swithch
Country: USA
Hitachi Data Systems has unveiled what it claims
will be the world's greenest data center. The storage supplier today
announced its parent company Hitachi's project to add a
10,782-square-meter wing to Hitachi Ltd.'s 387,459-square-meter data
center in Yokohama, Japan. The goal: to showcase Hitachi's green data
center products and services, while offering visible claims to
compliance with worldwide environmental efforts. "We're putting a stake
in the ground, saying this is what we're going to do," says Hu Yoshida,
VP and CTO of HDS. "All equipment is from Hitachi." That includes HDS
storage equipment as well as processors, blade servers, and
communications gear. Hitachi Ltd. is also using a range of
environmental prototypes, including specially made water-cooled racks
(called thermal hydraulic cooling devices), UPS systems, and
"supermorphous" power supply converters, along with RFID-based security
based on Hitachi Finger Vein authentication.
