Paper Title: How Much Power Does Your Storage System or Device Consume?

Paper Abstract: Power efficiency and measurement is becoming increasingly important for Cloud, Datacenter and Enterprise Storage. The ISO 94021 Spec for compute system power efficiency has been adopted by the US EPA, EU and Japan TopRunner. This ISO Spec incorporates the SNIA GSI "Emerald Spec" for measuring power efficiency for enterprise systems. The continuing importance of managing the cost of datacenter and enterprise storage has led to a need for Storage Device power efficiency measurement. This talk discusses adopted and proposed methods to measure and report storage system and storage device power efficiency. Power efficiency is typically reported as a total IOPS/W or MB/s/Watt for a given storage system or device. Come hear about international standards for power efficiency and new proposed measurements based on real world workload use cases. We will discuss current and proposed methodologies for the test, test harness and workload capture and generation for reporting power efficiency.

Paper Author: Wayne Adams, SNIA Chairman Emeritus, SNIA

Author Bio: Wayne Adams has a longstanding career of IT industry experience spanning business development, technical product/solution management, and partner ecosystems. Wayne has been engaged in SNIA leadership roles since 2002. Wayne has served on the SNIA Board of Directors since 2003 including roles as Chair, Chair Emeritus, Treasurer in addition to a number of chair and leadership roles for forums and initiatives, conferences, and strategic alliances. Wayne has been employed with EMC, Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), and Eastman Kodak. Wayne has been involved in standards groups including DMTF, W3C, Cloud Security Alliance, INCITS, OASIS, and IoT/OMG, as well as business technology development delegations to China and the PacRim. Wayne earned his Bachelor of Science degree with a dual major in Computer Science and Mathematics from the University of Pittsburgh.