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Integrating EMC's SaaS offerings

Metering and cost transparency are fundamental to initiatives like software as a service (SaaS) and Google-like storage architectures. Customers should observe EMC's capabilities and the development of its disciplines around storage accounting as a barometer of maturity in these emerging areas. To the extent these capabilities are integrated across solution offerings it will add real value; to the extent they remain disparate, customers, not EMC will bear the costs of optimizing infrastructure.

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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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