"Green SANs" - How SANs Reduce Overall Power Requirements in the Data Center Doug Anderson, Product Line Manager, Cisco Systems Data Center infrastructures are rapidly evolving to keep up with growing demands of new applications, improved resilience, and business responsiveness while minimizing overall power consumption. Managing power and cooling requirements to support the next generation data centers has become one of the biggest challenges faced by data center managers. It is imperative to deploy scalable infrastructures that consume less power to meet the concerns beyond cost, efficiency, performance and investment protection. This section addresses how to reduce overall power requirements of SAN in the data center by using advanced SAN capabilities. Intelligent SAN can reduce overall data center power consumption by leveraging high density SAN Directors, consolidating SAN Fabrics, integrating SAN services, and virtualizing server and storage resources.
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