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Green storage can make IT cool

Make IT cool and green by:

• Taking charge of IT power costs; take facilities costs as an IT line item and reflect it back in business chargebacks.
• Project storage and other IT power consumption and carbon production over the next five to ten years.
• Champion aggressive tiered storage initiatives.
• Include a section in every business case for storage or other IT power consuming equipment on the power and carbon savings from the applications supported.
• Work with storage and other IT vendors with corporate wide carbon neutral initiatives.

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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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