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Time to think about heterogeneous virtualization

Organizations that have avoided heterogeneous storage virtualization completely will increasingly pay a price in terms of reduced efficiencies, greater complexity and less IT flexibility. While the risk of staying the course may be lower and less disruptive in the near term, CIO's should carefully weigh those risks against cost and complexity and begin to implement heterogeneous storage virtualization strategies with the objective of better utilizing installed assets to offset virtualized appliance and license costs.

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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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