SCSC’s Power Managed Storage Architecture Les Martin, Tactical Systems Engineer, U.S. Navy Program Executive Office, Integrated Warfare Systems The mission of the Navy's Surface Combat Systems Center (SCSC) is to provide integrated warfare systems in a maritime environment for fleet operations, testing, training, engineering and development across 84 different warship configurations. With the SCSC team replicating the various computing environments four to six times daily from one of 84 different warship configurations using about 400 different computing systems, the organization needs immediate availability of data, yet the cost and energy savings associated with offline data systems. However, just five years ago the SCSC was using manual, time consuming, inefficient processes, and determined it was time to embark upon a "Fibre Channel SAN Initiatve". SCSC wanted to create a more streamlined and efficient process of extracting data and distributing it to appropriate analysts and computer specialists in a matter of hours, as opposed to the weeks its manual process took, while also ensuring cost and energy savings. In this presentation, Les Martin will explain phase II of its SAN initiative: "SCSC's Power Managed Storage Architecture Rollout" which focuses on the implementation of SCSC's "Sleeping SAN" and the steps taken to achieve cost and energy savings in particular. [ close this window ]