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Don't forget compliance when choosing NAS and SAN

Common methodologies and procedures should be used to evaluate the cross-functional compliance and other business issues for all storage pools and in particular NAS and SAN. Imposing standards without full buy-in is likely to lead to non-conformance to standards, and increase significantly the exposure of the organization to business risk. Consolidation of NAS should be encouraged as a natural outcome of the business necessity to simplify the practical implementation of standards.

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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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