Carol Sliwa writes in SearchStorage how IT organizations can reduce the datacenter footprint of storage. 

"The real savings in energy efficiency comes in managing the data," said Christine Taylor, an analyst at Taneja Group in Hopkinton, Mass. "The less data you have to house, the less energy you're going to have to use."

Leading storage vendors generally offer some form of compression. Storwize Inc. promotes compression of primary storage, and EMC Corp. and Ocarina Networks Inc. offer a combination of data deduplication and compression for primary storage.



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