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<p style="color: #666;">A data center within [http://www.phmining.com/ P&H Mining Equipment] (P&H) had a problem recovering from a tape library that was too small. Recovery of files and emails was taking up to 72 hours, and IT was increasingly concerned that it would not be possible to recover from a [[Disaster recovery strategy for storage|major disaster]]. Rather than increase the capacity of the tape library from 500 to 1,000 tapes, P&H choose an innovative solution of a ten terabyte data [[Data de-duplication: Greasing the rails of the backup window|de-duplication]] system from [http://www.datadomain.com/ Data Domain]. Importantly, the installation required no changes to the [[Disk and Tape: Buddies in Perpetuity with Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM)|Tivoli Storage Management]] (TSM) procedures and virtually no education for storage administrators.</p>
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<p style="color: #666;">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.</p>
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<p style="color: #666;">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.</p>
<p style="color: #666;">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.</p>
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Move security investments to the data

Storage vendors will increasingly attempt to lead in the data security business as a natural extension of existing franchises. Users should evaluate solutions not only on their ability to protect the castle's perimeter (with moats and walls) but also on other techniques to protect the king when he's beyond the safety of the castle.

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Featured Case Study

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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