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XIV and the future of storage management

Organizations need to have earnest discussions about the business value of data management and decide where they want resources to be targeted. High performance mission critical applications may warrant traditional complexity however most information in the data center requires good enough performance and the greatest simplicity possible. Emerging architectures like 3PAR and XIV provide a glimpse of the future of storage management underpinned by removing complexity, not just hiding it.

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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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