Green Storage: How AutoVirt Improves Your Green Profile - Sponsored Whitepaper

Servers and data centers consumed 1.5 percent of the total U.S. electricity consumption in 2006, says the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in its August 2007 Report to Congress on Server and Data Center Energy Efficiency. In 2006, this consumption cost U.S. companies $4.5 billion. If these rates continue, the EPA estimates that this cost will increase to $7.4 billion in 2011. But – there’s good news! The EPA elaborates that “improvement management of storage resources may result in significant data center energy savings”. (EPA, 45) You can reverse this trend. AutoVirt’s data migration product suite delivers you the ability to increase utilization of the energy- efficient storage you already own and retire energy-inefficient storage devices from your network. This paper provides an overview of AutoVirt technology and how AutoVirt’s products can help significantly improve your company’s green profile – and your bottom line.

AutoVirt Overview AutoVirt products get you more out of the Windows File Servers and NAS devices you already own by bringing virtualization and automation to Windows data migration. With AutoVirt products, you can migrate, replicate, and analyze utilization rates of your data without disrupting business operations in order to: • Pool and increase utilization • Consolidate storage devices • Upgrade to more energy-efficient devices • Retire aging devices

AutoVirt Product Suite AutoVirt offers you three software products that give you different degrees of insight into and control over your storage environment:

AutoMoveTM – Fully-Automated Windows Data Migration AutoMove leverages advanced storage virtualization technology to give you the industry’s first fully- automated data migration solution for Windows environments. Use AutoMove to increase the value of

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