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Become familiar with clustered storage technologies

Users should gain familiarity with clustered storage technologies, and specifically the different price points, scalability, and performance levels they may offer, and start to use classification and other strategies to discretely organize their applications, data, information, and storage needs to take advantage of clustered storage technologies as they gain favor through multiple sourcing options.

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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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