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Implications of EMC's January 2008 DMX announcement

Users should be encouraged by EMC’s January 2008 announcement as it gives them clear reasons to keep investing in the platform. As expected, many of the functions announced are also available to DMX-3 customers, as EMC has done its typically good job of protecting previous investments while holding a carrot out for customers to move to the DMX-4 (flash and 1TB SATA devices). Customers should understand how EMC and STEC have increased the reliability of NAND-based flash devices, identify candidate applications and begin testing the function in high performance situations.

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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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