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Making Green IT a Reality: Customer Perspectives on the Impact of Storage Vendor Decisions on Power, Cooling, & Space in Enterprise Data Centers

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Overview "Green IT" is a popular concept today, as data centers worldwide face rising costs for power, cooling, and space and companies strive to meet public demand for improved environmental stewardship. Many IT organizations, however, are just starting to understand the influence that their IT purchase decisions have on data center power, cooling, and space consumption. This paper explores that link, with a particular emphasis on the impact of storage solutions.

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Publisher	Network Appliance (NetApp)	File Format	PDF
Date Published	December 2007	Downloads	3
Format	White Papers
Topics	Data Center

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