Brocade found that:
“In the United States alone, the Environmental Protection Agency estimates data centers consumed some 61 billion kilowatt-hours in 2006 – using the equivalent of the average yearly energy output for 15 power plants. As the global demand for more data and faster performance increases, data system energy costs continue to rise.”
Brocade is determined to improve energy efficiencies by focusing on programs and products that support the ongoing development of green data centers. Increasing efficiency can be done through a variety of ways including:
1. Power and cooling. Because Brocade’s data centers generate one-third of the heat compared to competitors, they require less cooling and the saved power can be used for other devices.
2. Scalability. Brocade’s products simplify high performance data migration across heterogeneous environments.
3. Management. Because management is easy, centralized information management is more cost effective.
Brocade’s newest products are designed to be green, but don’t forget about the reliability and flexibility of Foundry’s routers like the NetIron MLX-16. New or refurbished, Brocade and Foundry products lead the industry.