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Tiered storage: Think outside the box

The DMX is an outstanding platform for tier one and some tier two applications, and users expect to pay higher prices for higher controller performance and functionality. However, users will usually achieve lower storage and environmental costs for separate tier two and tier three storage pools. EMC is well positioned to provide such solutions from its broad range of storage offerings and unless users have sound business reasons to tier within the DMX they should consider alernative platforms both within and outside of EMC's line.

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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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