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.
