Network Appliance has unveiled its plan to deploy edge data management techniques, helping customers to reduce their data centre power consumption.

According to NetApp, its approach is to halt power growth at its source by providing solutions that reduce raw storage, enabling customers to do more with the storage systems already in their IT environments.

NetApp technology enables customers to subtract machines and disks, reduce the overall data centre footprint, and maximize storage utilization.

This approach enables IT organisations to achieve greater power efficiency and lower infrastructure complexity and costs while enabling customers to better respond to new business demands.

"While the issue of power consumption is gaining a lot of attention in the server environment, customers now look beyond servers to other major consumers of data centre power. Storage is one of them. By focusing on getting increased work out of fewer disks while enabling widespread use of higher capacity and lower power disks, customers can reduce power consumption," said Chris Bennett, VP, Core Systems, NetApp.