Power-Managed Storage: Longer Data Life and Lower Energy Consumption

With escalating energy costs and growing power consumption, the utility bills at many enterprise datacenters now exceed hardware acquisition costs. This talk will discuss the reliability of high-capacity disk storage systems that are being increasingly used to archive persistent data over long time periods. We will cover how long-term data repositories using Massive Array of Idle Disk (MAID) technologies that power-manage drives can reduce the failure rates.

Aloke Guha is a co-founder and CTO of COPAN Systems, a storage systems and solutions company focused on long-term, persistent data. Prior to COPAN, he was the founding CEO of Datavail Systems, the Vice President and Chief Architect at StorageTek, and the CTO of Network Systems. He is a senior member of IEEE, and has authored 24 patents (eight issued) and over 60 technical publications.