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posted on 12 May 2008 08:41

Tape automation and removable hard drive vendor Tandberg Data has joined The Green Grid.

In another signal indicating Tandberg Data is determined to rejoin the data protection hardware mainstream it has joined The Green Grid, the multi-vendor consortium dedicated to lowering power consumption in data centers through raising the efficiency of power use. It hopes to achieve this through industry-wide recommendations on best practices, metrics, standards and technologies.

Tandberg naturally sees that offline tapes and removable hard drives consume no power and are a good way for SMB data center operators to store backup and archive data in a more power-efficient manner.

Bharat Kumer, marketing and development VP at Tandberg Data, said: "Businesses typically spend 50 percent of the acquisition cost of a tape drive on electricity to run it. By offering industry-low power consumption, combined with reusability and scalability, Tandberg Data's tape solutions will help customers on their way to a greener backup strategy."

Tandberg is fighting its way back to health after a near-fatal financial disaster.

^{[B&F staff.]}