Control apparatus, control method, and computer product

A control method executed by a computer, the control method comprising:

• acquiring from a first computer that executes a software application, type information indicating a use of the software application, which uses a memory apparatus;
• identifying an electric power saving scheme that corresponds to the acquired type information, by referring to control information that correlates type information of each software application and any one of multiple electric power saving schemes whose electric power saving efficiencies for the memory apparatus differ from each other;
• and
• transmitting to a second computer capable of controlling operation of the memory apparatus according to each of the electric power saving schemes, a request to cause the memory apparatus to operate according to the identified electric power saving scheme.

A computer-readable recording medium storing a control program that causes a computer to execute a process comprising:

• acquiring from a first computer that executes a software application, type information indicating a use of the software application, which uses a memory apparatus;
• identifying an electric power saving scheme that corresponds to the acquired type information, by referring to control information that correlates type information of each software application and any one of multiple electric power saving schemes whose electric power saving efficiencies for the memory apparatus differ from each other;
• and
• transmitting to a second computer capable of controlling operation of the memory apparatus according to each of the electric power saving schemes, a request to cause the memory apparatus to operate according to the identified electric power saving scheme.