Tandberg Data New Program: Rebates for Recycling

Tandberg Data announced a new program called Rebates for Recycling, a ‘green’ initiative that helps IT managers save money as they help save the planet by reducing energy consumption. Tandberg Data’s Rebates for Recycling provides significant incentives – from $50 to $150 – for those who sign up to recycle old, inefficient tape storage devices and replace them with new, high-efficiency tape and removable disk based storage products.

IT equipment worldwide is responsible for 2% of CO2 emissions. At the same time that companies battle rising energy costs, they are trying to stay afloat amid an increasing deluge of data, which is coming at an increasing price—that’s where companies consume a lot of power. Data centers are filled with ‘constantly on’ servers whose continually spinning disk drives not only consume energy, but they then generate heat that must in turn be cooled to keep the data center operational. With that in mind, making data centers more efficient will reduce operating costs from power utilization. So, for companies of all sizes, reducing power and cooling requirements and overall energy use makes sense from an economic perspective. Studies have shown that tape-based backup and archiving solutions can deliver substantial TCO benefits and energy savings, particularly as compared to spinning disks, with reports that 90% of the data stored on servers will never be accessed again.

"As IT and storage administrators upgrade their data protection solutions, we want to give them a green incentive to recycle their old storage device in favor of a new one with a smaller footprint, higher capacity, and greater energy efficiency," said Kjell Øyvind Aasene, Vice President EMEA, Tandberg Data.  "Disk and tape both have their place in the data centre, but the fact remains that tape is the most energy efficient and most economical data archival solution."  

Rebates for Recycling Program Details
When a customer agrees to recycle an old tape solution – any tape product whether it’s from Tandberg Data or not – the company will give the customer a rebate toward the purchase of a new Tandberg Data tape or removable disk (RDX) device. Customers must submit the rebate request in advance online. The offer is valid through 30 September 2008 across EMEA and offers a variety of green discounts across its entire product portfolio.

Online Solutions Forum
In addition to the Rebates for Recycling program, Tandberg Data also encourages a dialog on this issue, including such topics as Power Consumption and Energy Use, Heat Removal and Management, and Data Centre Infrastructure and Design in an online forum.

"Saving money is always important," added Aasene, "but we can’t ignore the impacts of exponential energy demand. There is no single solution to the challenge of growing energy requirements and the increasing need for greater storage capacity, but every step in the right direction will help.  That’s why we want to do our part by helping to facilitate a discussion and by continuing to produce the most energy-efficient storage products possible."

Earlier this year, Tandberg Data announced that it joined The Green Grid Consortium. As a member of the consortium, Tandberg Data will promote the reduction of energy consumption by using more efficient, future-proof and scalable technologies.