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Go Green to Save Green: Embracing Green Energy Practices

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Overview Once the aligned data management strategies that are critical to saving energy are in place, energy efficiency opportunities can be identified and earmarked as milestones. Such a well-defined approach would sustain the "Green" initiatives which would be enterprise encompassing rather than achieve compartmentalized benefits and cost savings. Thereby, greater consolidation would help in better server utilization; make hardware more power-efficient, reduce carbon footprints and streamline power supplies and overall usage. These measures would make the company energy efficient and environmentally friendly in the long run which should translate into the requisite storage savings and the overall TCO of the implemented energy efficiency strategies.

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Publisher	Solix Technologies	File Format	PDF
Date Published	January 2007
Format	White Papers
Topics	Storage Management, Green IT

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