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Network visibility is vital for strong risk management

Ultimately there are no guarantees. Life is risky, and a certain amount of risk has to be accepted by any organization. Risk management is not about guaranteeing that nothing bad can happen, because even the most secure environments experience problems. Instead, the aim of risk management is to reduce exposure to an acceptable level that is both affordable and survivable. If IT can manage that, then it can consider its risk management program successful.

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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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