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Quantify business benefits of mobile enterprise platforms

IT must ensure that business lines quantify the benefits of enterprise mobility and reflect that improved productivity in business plans. IT must demonstrate a return on infrastructure investments using this baseline and construct cost-effective solutions accordingly. Owning both the cost and the benefit sides of the equation will put IT in a lose-lose situation if clear returns are not realized.

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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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