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Beware of blades bearing high availability gifts

IT organizations should be wary of promisinghigh availability web services built on blades or any other commodity hardware and software. Where they exist, IT should first qualify and make available external services built on high availability infrastructures that are protected from component failure. The challenge, as always, is recovery. Whereas commodity hardware can fail over instantly, recovery remains a complex and sometimes tedious and fragile task.

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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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