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Top Down Security

Organizations of all sizes need to adopt a top-down, bottoms-up approach to selecting and organizing storage security and data protection solutions. A top down CISO needs to define the levels of assurance, availability, spend, and other key business attributes for security and data protection, as well as define a layered storage security architecture and the capabilities and dependencies of each layer. This is particularly important when the business or operations are virtual, with data sharing across businesses, the enterprise, partners, and service providers. Each security technology layer and business process needs to be assigned to an appropriate business sponsor and IT lead for implementation and ongoing operations.

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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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