Hitachi Vantara earns ENERGY STAR certification for storage solutions

Hitachi Vantara has announced that its new Virtual Storage Platform One Block storage appliance has earned the ENERGY STAR certification. Additionally, it was recognised as the best storage solution for performance and energy efficiency in the ENERGY STAR NVSS Disk Online 4 category. The company also holds the top three ranked storage solutions in this category.

The ENERGY STAR certification evaluates storage solutions based on their IOPS (input/output operations per second) per Watt, a key metric for measuring the efficiency of input/output operations relative to energy consumption. Hitachi Vantara's Virtual Storage Platform One Block 28 model ranked highest with 538 IOPS per watt, followed by the Virtual Storage Platform One Block 26 at 409 IOPS per watt and the Virtual Storage Platform E1090 at 368 IOPS per watt.

This recognition coincides with an increased focus on improving sustainability in business operations. According to a recent survey, 68% of IT decision-makers expressed concerns about the impact of AI/ML on their organisation's energy use and carbon footprint. Additionally, 77% of respondents noted that legacy data architectures negatively impacted their sustainability performance.

"At Hitachi Vantara, we understand the growing importance of energy efficiency in today’s data-driven world, and we are committed to helping our customers meet their performance needs while also reducing their environmental impact," said Octavian Tanase, chief product officer at Hitachi Vantara.

"Our Virtual Storage Platform One Block storage appliance exemplifies our vision for the future, delivering powerful, reliable, and eco-friendly solutions that drive value for our customers and help significantly reduce carbon emissions."

The Virtual Storage Platform One is designed to deliver key benefits in the storage market. It improves performance, enabling organisations to consolidate more workloads onto fewer systems, enhancing operational efficiency and helping businesses achieve their green data centre goals by minimising their environmental footprint.

Additionally, the platform features Dynamic Carbon Reduction technology, which reduces energy consumption by switching CPUs into eco-mode during periods of low activity. The appliance's "always on" compression allows the system to switch from inline data reduction to post-processing, further cutting energy consumption and lowering CO2 emissions by as much as 30-40%.

Several key aspects further highlight Hitachi Vantara's commitment to sustainable innovation. All Hitachi Vantara storage arrays have obtained CFP (Carbon Footprint of Products) certification under the SuMPO (Sustainable Management Promotion Organization) environmental labelling program. This certification ensures transparency and environmental accountability by undergoing third-party verification of greenhouse gas emissions per terabyte per year.

All mid-market solutions from Hitachi Vantara are certified by ENERGY STAR for their IOPS per Watt, underscoring these products' energy efficiency and performance. Additionally, Hitachi Vantara recently received a Gold Medal rating for Sustainability from EcoVadis, a globally recognised player in assessing corporate social responsibility and sustainability practices.

For over a decade, Hitachi Vantara storage arrays have been committed to continuously reducing greenhouse gas emissions throughout the entire system lifecycle, from material procurement to production, logistics, use, disposal, and recycling.