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Investigate the applicability of 3-node disaster recovery

IT organizations should not attempt to lead planning efforts for disaster recovery but instead must not only accept but demand business leadership in this critically important domain. IT organizations should, however, immediately begin investigating the three-node data center architecture as a technical approach to provide the IT architecture that may be required for DR and establish strong relationships with facilities and other internal groups that will ultimately have to assess the probability and consequences of having to respond to a major disruption in the business.

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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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