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Revision as of 12:14, 6 April 2009
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Latest Peer Incites:
1. JCPenney's Drive to Green IT (5:09)
2. X-Pfizer IT Exec Unlocks Legal Risk Secrets - Part 1-- The Problem Statement (19:48)
3. X-Pfizer IT Exec Unlocks Legal Risk Secrets - Part 2-- The Architectural Solution (19:48)
WikitipEMC DMX users should consider replacing spinning disks with flashEMC DMX Users should identify suitable applications and consider replacing 10-15 hard drives with one flash drive to improve performance. Users should also focus on the cost per I/O rather than the cost per gigabyte. Customers should push EMC to provide configuration planning tools that help identify applications and balance the ratio of flash drives to hard drives. |
Featured Case StudyFinancial giant goes greenThe corporate IT group of a very large, worldwide financial organization with 100,000 employees, has initiated an ongoing “greening” process. This is focused largely on reducing energy use both to decrease the corporation's carbon footprint while creating a net savings in operational costs over the lifetime of new, more energy-efficient equipment, including new storage systems. |
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Planning a Green Storage InitiativeFluctuating energy prices have heightened electricity and energy consumption as a major issue within the technology community. IT is a significant consumer of energy and IT energy costs have been rising disproportionately because of continued investment in denser IT equipment. Estimates from the EPA and others indicate that IT will account for 3% of energy consumption by 2012. |