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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)
WikitipKick the tires with XIVWith XIV, IBM is signaling that it has an increased appetite for storage R&D. To make its investments pay off, IBM is combining a low-cost, volume commodity approach with an innovative architecture that is aimed at the sweet spot of the data center. Unfortunately it’s not quite ready for prime time. Users should kick the tires of XIV to determine the degree to which automated performance management will change storage administration best practice. The bottom line on XIV is it legitimizes fully virtualized architectures. The question users should answer on XIV is do the lower acquisition costs and simpler management attributes warrant the substantial migration costs and risks of moving from existing platforms. |
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Financial 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. | |||
