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All suppliers need a thin provisioning strategy

Vendors of high end storage subsystems should continue to aggressively invest in thin provisioning. Since 3PAR has popularized the approach, Hitachi has enhanced its thin provisioning functionality (providing support for external devices) and EMC has introduced support for thin provisioning on DMX. Key to adoption will be helping customers understand where the technology fits, where it doesn't and ISV support of thin provisioning, an area that needs more attention by established players.

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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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