How Green Is Your Storage?

| CTO Edge (Apr 22 2010) Cloud Computing , Storage

1. Many believe that waste in the data center is a sin -- well, at least a financial sin. CTOs are often taking a close look at their data centers to prevent waste and to maximize utilization, while reducing energy costs. Nevertheless, there seems to be one area that no one really wants to tackle, and that is disk storage. Most data center architects treat disk storage like closet space. In other words, you can never have enough. Further exacerbating the problem is that application administrators wind up carving storage pools into silos for their respective applications. The same can be said about network administrators and other IT managers in the data center. (Read Full Article)

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