Spectra Logic, the data storage innovator, today announced its membership in The Green Grid. The Green Grid is a global consortium dedicated to advancing energy efficiency in data centers and business computing ecosystems. Spectra Logic's membership will extend the company's knowledge and resource bank on end user needs for energy efficiency in storage.

Spectra Logic designs its intelligent secondary storage disk appliances and tape libraries with the EnergyAuditT power usage and monitoring feature included standard.  EnergyAudit taps directly into the power supply to track how much power is in use real time, and can report the data in watts per cubic foot, square foot or terabyte.  Spectra Logic designs power efficiency savings into all secondary storage platforms.  For example, the Spectra T950 annual energy costs for power and cooling are more than 50 percent less than other enterprise-class tape libraries.

"End users continue to note in our research that the finite power allocation planned for future storage growth is often consumed months, if not years, ahead of expectations and that close to 25 percent of all new data centers are being created to address this growth in power usage," said Robert Stevenson, managing director of storage research for TheInfoPro (www.theinfopro.net) "Spectra Logic's EnergyAudit feature offers a step towards energy measurement, allowing for better management of power usage within existing data centers."

The Green Grid seeks to provide industry-wide recommendations on best practices, metrics and technologies that will improve overall data center and business computing energy efficiencies. By joining The Green Grid, Spectra Logic is helping influence both developers and end users of data center technology.

"With energy costs rising, customers demand cost-effective and energy-efficient storage products," said Nathan Thompson, Spectra Logic's founder and CEO "Spectra Logic designs solutions that use less power and offers tools to calculate cost-savings, and are now backing our commitment by joining the industry's knowledge leader so we can continue to offer the most timely tools that customers wish to deploy."