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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)
WikitipIncorporate business process knowlege into key initiativesAs information management moves from server room to court room to board room storage administration will be under increasing pressure to accommodate line of business constituencies, legal and records management functions. Storage administrators must aggressively incorporate business process knowledge into corporate initiatives or project success rates will plummet and IT infrastructure will become a convenient scapegoat. IT vendors are increasingly providing products and services to support such initiatives. |
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Financial 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. |
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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. | |||
