Electricity savings reduce oil consumption, reduce the creation of greenhouse gases and help reduce the potential for global warming. With Thin Provisioning, customers do not have to compromise between economic prudence and environmental friendliness.

Over the last five years, more than 105 million enterprise disk drives were shipped worldwide, most of which are still in operation. This year, these disk drives will consume an estimated 60 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity at a cost of $6 billion. Up to $3 billion in energy costs could have been saved if every storage deployment included Thin Provisioning.