JISC

Overview

This project will create a web-based modelling tool to allow IT managers, engineers and decision makers to calculate the energy and financial savings they could derive from introducing tiered storage technology, such as that demonstrated in the JISC-funded Planet Filestore project. The web-based modelling tool will be made available via the UK Access Management Federation, which will allow users to save their work and return to it at a later date. The tool will work on a number of platforms, including smart phones and other mobile devices. The dissemination deliverable will be significant, in order to ensure that the modelling tool meets institutional needs and is taken up widely across the community.

Aims and objectives

• To create a web-based modelling tool to allow IT managers, engineers and decision makers to calculate the energy and financial savings they could derive from introducing tiered storage technology.
• To undertake associated dissemination activities to encourage use of the tool.

Anticipated outputs and outcomes

• To provide the community with a simple, easy to use tool that will demonstrate the likely energy efficiency improvements to be made through utilising tiered storage at their institutions;
• To provide managers, engineers and decision makers across the community with an effective means of assessing the likely economic benefit of implementing tiered storage;
• To enable a wide range of institutions to model the benefits of tiered storage for themselves, we expect a groundswell of change across the sector which would lead to a significant reduction in carbon and environmental footprint;
• To add breadth to the UK Access Management Federation by adding a different kind of service to the Federation.