Channel Data, an authorised distributor of Overland Storage products, has released three new offerings, that it says are aimed at organisations that want to address data storage needs while minimising their carbon footprint.
Ultamus RAID nearline storage arrays, REO Series disk backup and recovery appliances, together with NEO Series and ARCvault tape backup and archive appliances have all been declared RoHS (Restriction of Hazardous Substances) compliant, says Channel Data.
The company explains that the RoHS agreement restricts the usage of six hazardous materials (lead, mercury, cadmium, hexavalent chromium, polybrominated biphenyls and polybrominated diphenyl ether) in the manufacture of electronic equipment.
Channel Data MD, Mike Hamilton welcomes the announcement. Hamilton said that the tightening of environmental compliance measures on a world-wide scale poses a sizable challenge to high-tech manufacturers and distributors.
"Apart from the absence of heavy metals," says Hamilton. "They optimise power consumption as they are manufactured in smaller form factors to a wireless design which results in fewer parts and thus reduced emissions.
He says they also feature technologies, such as deduplication, which stores instances of data, not all duplicate data, offering an eco-friendly alternative to data conservation.
According to Hamilton, compression technologies increase backup disk capacity by a factor of between 12 and 25, and significantly more data can be stored in the same disk space. This reduces hardware costs and saves electricity by decreasing energy consumption.
He adds that Overland's modular and scalable tape library alternatives to disk systems can reduce overall power consumption by 5% and reduce heat output by a much larger margin - as tape technology generates just 1% of the heat associated with (disk-based) RAID appliances.
A high note is that all Overland Storage equipment is recyclable because of the absence of heavy metals.
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