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Understand flash and apply where appropriate

EMC's announcement incorporating flash drive technology represents the possible resurgence of solid state disks (SSD) in high end disk systems and will likely have ripple effects throughout the industry. Users should understand the benefits of the technology and apply it where appropriate. Comparisons with conventional disks are simple but not meaningful as value for performance (not value for capacity) is the key to understanding the benefits of SSD.

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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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