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Thin provisioning caveats shouldn't stop adoption

Thin provisioning is becoming very popular as it offers substantial savings in costs and time resources. It is also positioned to solve the complexity of current storage infrastructures. Not all applications are suitable for thin provisioning (see Thin provisioning: Look before you leap) and new challenges are expected as we move forward. Nonetheless, as this technology becomes more widely adopted and new adjacent technologies emerge, those challenges will prevail and make thinly provisioned volumes the only way to allocate storage. Customers should begin to understand the benefits of thin provisioning for both file and block-based storage and apply the technology where sensible for dramatic productivity improvements and simplification of storage.

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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.

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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.

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