The Green Genes of CAStor

The rapidly growing environmental awareness in all segments of society is causing a landslide in the positioning and marketing of IT technologies around the concept of “green.” Aspects that were previously ignored have made it to the top of the short list of decisive criteria. Small wonder that all IT vendors – regardless of the nature of their wares – are trying to find whatever green arguments they can find to secure a rank in this new pecking order. The resulting spectacle is often painful to watch, as most often their technologies are strongly rooted in an era where power consumption, or “bang for the watt”, simply wasn’t a factor. Bang for the buck was what counted, and power was cheap.