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Android may be more attractive to developers

Android has finally arrived, and the initial reviews are favorable. In contrast to the iron control Apple exercises over every aspect of the iPhone/Touch environment, Android is open source, which opens the door for any third-party application suppliers to join the market. That open source approach also makes it much easier for enterprise-level software vendors and enterprises themselves to develop custom applications and application front-ends on Android than on the iPhone. And Android is a much more powerful platform for software development than the iPhone. The bottom line: Enterprises should examine all the available platforms and talk to their key software vendors before establishing a corporate standard.

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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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