The Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform One SDS Block Provision Service simplifies business operations and reduces power consumption of equipment used and work hours of the information system department
（CO2 emissions can be reduced by 26%*1）
Customer's issues
- In operations for each storage system, there were differences in disk utilization rates, which resulted in higher power consumption.
- In operations for each storage system, management became siloed and complicated, leading to an increase in work hours.
Functional unit: Operation and management tasks for internal systems, including storage expansion four times a year
Effects
- The burden on the environment is reduced by decreasing power consumption through the consolidation and replacement of storage systems.
- After introducing the service, the management of the storage systems is centralized and simplified, and operational work hours are reduced.
- Factors that reduce the burden on the environment
- Reduction of power consumption
- Reduction of work hours
- Factors that increase the burden on the environment
- No factors increased the burden
*1 CO2 emissions: Reduction per year = 21 t-CO2; CO2 reduction rate: 26%
- The values of environment impact factors differ depending on the evaluation conditions and the evaluation model. Please contact us for details of the system configuration used for the evaluation model.
- This evaluation uses Hitachi, Ltd.’s CO2 calculation method SI-LCA*2 at the stage of actual use (based on information as of December 2024) as the target of evaluation.
- *2
- SI-LCA: System Integration-Life Cycle Assessment
The SI-LCA method complies with the Guideline for Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Eco-Efficiency Evaluation (issued by The Japan Forum on Eco-efficiency, currently known as the LCA Japan Forum, in March 2006) - *3
- Individual estimates are needed for additional support for servers and server-embedded SSDs.