3Par, a storage array vendor is promising to purchase carbon emission offset credits for every TB of thin provisioning storage customers purchase in 2007.
Their estimate, based on the 4PB of storage they expect to sell is that the equivalent of 700 cars or 8 million lbs (that’s about 3600 tonnes to you and me) will be offset through Terrapass. I calculate that every car is worth 5.7TB of storage and storage comes out at about 1TB a tonne of Co2.
Whilst this seems a laudible scheme, a couple of things spring to mind;
- How efficient is the 3Par system in the first place? It’s better to be saving emissions on something that’s already efficient – I’ll be checking this out in the coming days.
- All of Terrapass’ projects are US/North America based. How about 3Par (and Terrapass) showing this is a global issue and supporting projects on a global basis, perhaps based on the country where the storage was purchased?
It would be useful if storage vendors produced a “green footprint” for their products, based on the performance of the equipment. Then you could see what you were getting for your money in eco terms.
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