Storage software now comes with built-in power management

Caringo, a storage technology vendor out of Austin, Texas, has added an adaptive energy conservation feature to its object storage platform, CAStor 4.0.

The feature, known as Darkive, works by letting storage managers automate disk spin-downs during certain defined periods of inactivity. Hardware can managed down to the individual node level, if desired. Darkive also also allows managers to cap power consumption at certain levels, until a specific server is required. It can be used to designate which hardware is used first: so, for example, if you're running some older servers that are less energy-efficient than others, you can manage them accordingly.

CAStor works with commodity storage hardware, which means you can use it with hardware from different vendors or different generations across the same storage cluster. However, it developed the power cap features in conjunction with its "preferred" OEM partner, Dell.

You can try out CAStor by downloading a free license key for up to 2 terabytes of storage capacity.