MonoSphere Helps to Save Power and Cooling

MonoSphere Inc. (http://www.monosphere.com)
announced that medium and large organizations using its latest storage
capacity management software can save millions of dollars in power and
cooling while significantly reducing capital expenditures. The
real-world calculations were done using the example of an organization
with 2.5PB of storage at 40 percent utilization and a cost of
$20,000 per terabyte. As a result of implementing the Storage Horizon
software from MonoSphere, the company would realize power and cooling
savings of $3 million over the three-year lifespan of the hardware and
cut the capital expenditures in half while storage utilization would
double.

According to Gartner, by 2008, 50 percent of current data centers will
have insufficient power and cooling capacity to meet the demands of
high-density equipment. From this perspective, the need for
comprehensive capacity management planning that leads to major power and
cooling savings should be vital to any organization.

“When evaluating storage capacity management
software, most companies consider the immediate capital cost savings
achieved by purchasing less hardware, because of increased utilization
that is the result of systematic capacity management,”
said Frank Kettenstock, vice president of marketing at MonoSphere. ”While
this is immediately visible and substantial, some companies may not
realize that the power and cooling savings are also very significant,
allowing organizations to allocate the money to other projects.”

The Storage Horizon software from MonoSphere is a comprehensive storage
capacity management solution that does not require installation of
software agents on application servers; the system deploys in only a few
hours and immediately collects and analyzes storage data, providing a
view of current and forecasted storage usage. Pricing is determined by
the number of terabytes managed.

MonoSphere Inc.