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EMC customers should expect to integrate the piece parts themselves

Despite excellent announcements in SMB and SaaS, customers should not expect EMC to provide true 'out of the box' storage infrastructure, across the board, anytime soon. Rather customers should expect to build integrated storage capabilities from multiple piece parts, many from EMC's acquisitions in document management, virtualization, security, etc. In the near-to-mid-term, EMC customers will continue to bear the costs of maintaining excellent skills in storage planning, design, integration and administration.

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Financial giant goes green

The 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. This effort is not viewed by the IT administration as a one-time project but rather as a perpetual process of evaluating new technology in part on its energy efficiency and introducing it into the corporate data centers to replace aging systems as appropriate.

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Planning a Green Storage Initiative

Fluctuating 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. read more...