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Beware of scope creep with data classification efforts

Executives responsible for storage must keep data classification schema simple and limited to data that is system generated (e.g. date of creation and last use). While necessary, expanding the scope of classification efforts should not proceed until data classification schema are defined and automated methods of generation are in place. Relying on any manual entry of classification information will doom data classification projects to failure.

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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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