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Introducing Storage Virtual Appliances (SvSAN)

Many users are looking for ways to maximize their investment and want to leverage the advanced features available in ESX, but can’t do so without making a significant investment in a shared storage system. Why spend thousands of dollars when you can leverage the internal storage available in your ESX server?

VMware users deserve a more flexible, robust and cost effective shared storage solution for their virtual server environment. Shared storage systems are needed in order to leverage the real benefits of ESX (such as VMotion), but are often seen as out of reach, too complicated or too expensive for mid-sized organizations.

StorMagic's SvSAN addresses these issues with a Storage Virtual Appliance. Visit http://www.stormagic.com/products_SvSAN.php for more on the SvSAN

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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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