A sliver of a piece of hardware becomes a backup solution that consumes less electricity than most light bulbs, even CFLs.

A Green PC for Backups - Sub Ubi

The fit-PC draws 5W under load.

To put that in perspective, my MacBook has a 65W power adapter. A typical desktop has a 200W power supply. The fit-PC draws less juice from the wall than an energy saving light bulb. It is fanless, so the computer is no louder than the hard drive… (which, in an aluminum case, is going to be very, very quiet). That, and it’s small. A CD jewel case is 142 mm × 125 mm × 10 mm. The fit-PC is 116mm x 120mm x 40mm. That means it is as tall as four CD cases, and has a footprint that is smaller than those CD cases.

How green is your storage? - Infostor

The latest storage systems use disk drives with the highest capacities in history. Using these high-capacity drives allows users to drive down watts/terabyte in the data center. For example, migrating data stored on legacy 36/73/146GB Fibre Channel drives to newer, higher-capacity Fibre Channel or Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) drives can significantly improve power/cooling profiles. Similarly, migrating infrequently accessed application data to high-capacity SATA tiers will substantially improve storage energy efficiency.

Nexsan SASBoy touts green credentials - vnunet.com

Another differentiator say Nexsan is, that its SAS drives, come with AutoMAID, its intelligent power management system, which allows multiple levels of energy efficiency through user configurability. Woolery pointed out that, " Since this storage is aimed at tier two and thus is not active on a 24 x 7 basis, this gives an opportunity to save energy when drives are not being accessed."

Switch Vendors Call For Green Measurement Standards - CRN.com

In-Stat, meanwhile, is raising eyebrows with its recent study titled "Green Networking Equipment: Who Leads and Who Lags?" that ranked both 24-port and 48-port Gigabit Ethernet fixed managed Layer 2 and Layer 3 switches from more than a dozen vendors based on their fabric capacity (Gigabits per second) per watt. The study found that switches from 3Com, Netgear and SMC are among the most power efficient, while others like Cisco Systems, Nortel and ProCurve Networking by HP ranked quite low.

Cost-Effective Ways to Make IT Companies 'Green' - TMCnet

The report also highlights niche players in the power management software and hardware market as among the key beneficiaries of the drive to lower IT related energy consumption. It notes that while some manufacturers are using the 'eco-badge' to sell more equipment, IT companies have the choice of making small procedural changes that can reduce the energy requirements of their IT systems without investing in new equipment. As the recent oil price spike has coincided with a credit crunch, the report lists ways for IT companies to become more eco friendly without having to finance a complete upgrade of a corporate IT system.