Home
From Wikibon
Latest Peer Incites:
1. Six Wikibon experts break down EMC's recent analyst event (23 Mins)
2. Grant, a Sr. Storage Admin at a large bank discusses how heterogeneous storage virtualization can help reduce the budget for 2009. (20 Mins)
WikitipHitachi needs to do the vision thingHitachi's product-oriented messages, while necessary and important, will not suffice in helping users chart a course for the near-to-mid term. Hitachi and other vendors are staring at a major opportunity to articulate what the future of storage will look like and lay out a multi-year plan for customers to follow. Virtualized data centers, more efficient technology utilization , tiered storage and heterogeneous storage management are key underpinnings of this vision as is the accommodation for information asset and liability management. |
Featured Case StudyFinancial giant goes greenThe 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. |
|
Featured How-To Note |
Planning a Green Storage InitiativeFluctuating 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. |