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Balance compliance initiatives with profit goals

Storage organizations must balance the reality of compliance mandates with the need to be profitable. Compliance with high risk items is fundamental however trade offs must be made when evaluating 'gray areas' of compliance. Clear retention and destruction policies help but policies alone won't ensure compliance. Technology must be judiciously applied to minimize exposure while at the same time allowing compliance to be automated where possible.

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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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