Green House Data Chooses Atrato Storage System for Power, Cooling and Space Savings
Atrato V1000 to Provide Cloud Computing Infrastructure for 10,000 SF Data Center that is Powered Entirely Through Renewable Wind Energy
WESTMINSTER, Colo., Dec. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Atrato, Inc.
(http://www.Atrato.com), a leading provider of high-volume on-demand storage
for the high performance computing, digital entertainment and Web sectors,
today announced that Green House Data (http://www.greenhousedata.com) has
selected Atrato's flagship Velocity1000 (V1000) storage system for the
company's outsourced data center services. The Atrato V1000 provides a unique
solution that is ideal for cloud computing and virtualized environments as
well as applications that require high input/output performance. The product
features industry leading throughput in a power, cooling and space efficient
package.
Green House Data is a 10,000 sq.ft. data center that is powered entirely
through renewable wind energy. This high-availability and secure facility is
designed to operate at approximately 60% lower energy utilization per square
foot than comparable data centers of the same size. This translates directly
into cost savings for its customers while providing more computing power
within the data center that draws less energy in a given footprint.
"It can be hard to find the right balance between delivering the best
technology to our customers and adhering to a higher sense of environmental
responsibility," said Shawn Mills, president and founder, Green House Data
Center. "Atrato has helped us to reconcile these two objectives. Our
commitment to sustainable solutions led us to the Atrato V1000 for its
unmatched performance density that saves us significant space, power and
cooling costs. It is Atrato's high performance standards and total cost of
ownership that has enabled us to launch our cloud computing initiative."
Green House Data's current SAN puts significant power requirements on the
data center and takes up an entire 42 units of rack of space. With the V1000,
the company will be able to reduce its power requirements by 80% while
achieving the same level of capacity and performance in only 6 rack units.
This transition will save Green House Data 80% in power and cooling costs in
the coming years. In addition, the V1000 opens doors to new revenue
opportunities. Green House Data will be able to scale its infrastructure to
support over 665 clients each utilizing 300 gigabytes of dedicated server
space; previous configurations allowed them to support only 83 clients with
the same 300 gigabytes of dedicated server space.
"By choosing the V1000 system with its high-density form factor, Green
House Data will not only improve the level of performance for customers but
will also provide the necessary capacity and scalability to meet growing
requirements" asserts Steve Visconti, president and CEO, Atrato. The Atrato
V1000 allows Green House Data to support eight times as many customers than
could be supported by the previous environment. This increase in capacity and
performance has intensified Green House Data's ability to scale their customer
base and increase revenues by millions of dollars per rack over the life of
the product.
"We came to Atrato with the need to fit as many servers on our SAN as
possible. This allows us to grow as needed and deliver GIS mapping, SQL
servers, and high performance analytics to our customers with data intensive
applications. As a leader in corporate sustainability we also require a
solution that not only delivers superior performance, and the capability to
support data intensive applications, but also provides a green architecture.
For us, the V1000 is that solution," said Shawn Mills.
The V1000 is the definition of a true green solution. Atrato employs a
high density design that consumes up to 80% less energy than standard industry
solutions. The green aspects of the V1000 are built into the architecture.
The patented power saving architecture allows for efficient and effective
cooling, as well as the industry's highest density. Atrato does not hide
behind thin provisioning and spinning down disks. In the past customers had to
choose between power consumption levels and performance. The V1000 eliminates
this compromise, allowing customers to enjoy high levels of access density,
capacity, and security while remaining environmentally responsible.
Green House Data provides outsourced data center services (either managed
or co-located) for companies who choose not to build their own data centers.
They bring high-touch, high-service solutions to the market in a
cost-effective package. Green House Data is giving customers all the benefits
of owning their own data center, including bandwidth, in a low-cost, green
solution.
About Atrato, Inc.
Based in Westminster, Colorado, Atrato, Inc. (http://www.Atrato.com) is
revolutionizing the data access and storage markets by challenging the
traditional thinking on how to rapidly access stored data. Atrato's system
provides unparalleled performance, linear scalability, and significantly
reduced operational costs in a self-maintaining architecture for the HPC,
Entertainment, IPTV, VOD, and Web 2.0 markets.
About Green House Data
Green House Data is one of the nation's only high-density data center and
hosted computing facilities that is entirely powered through renewable wind
energy. The company offers the region's lowest cost, high-availability
co-location and managed hosting services. The company's green operations
deliver a zero carbon footprint facility that is approximately ten percent
less expensive than its competitors. For more information visit:
http://www.greenhousedata.com
