Only 10 percent of an iceberg is visible above the waterline. The same holds true for the enterprise cost of electronic information storage, where the true depth of the storage issue and its overall impact on the corporate bottom line remain hidden. With large enterprises spending as much as 40 percent of their IT budgets on their storage infrastructures, there is greater incentive than ever to apply the reduce, reuse, and recycle mantra to achieve hard cost savings and enjoy the benefits of green IT. Here, Knowledge Center contributor Stuart Butts explains how to use single-instance storage to control storage resources and expense.
– In a world where 80 percent of CIOs admit to never seeing their energy bills, enterprises are under the illusion that they have limitless inexpensive storage. While no one can hold back the rapid escalation in storage demand, the opportunity does exist to control storage resources and expense by emp…