Guest Column: Next Generation Deduplication Platform Delivers On Promise Of Green IT With Operational Savings

By Jerome M Wendt, Lead Analyst and President, DCIG Inc.

September and October are the traditional months that many midsize businesses start to forecast what projects they hope to accomplish in the upcoming year and then put together budgets in support of those plans. Projects currently being given the highest priority are those that are power efficient, space efficient and cost efficient to meet organizational "Green" initiatives.

While data deduplication is gaining increasing consideration in meeting these challenges, it is next-generation power managed deduplication that is poised to increase overall operational savings for organizations with Intelligent Power Management (IPM), energy-optimized hardware architecture and maximum system density to reduce energy-related system and datacenter costs. A deduplicating disk-based storage system is one such initiative that many organizations are planning on for 2010 and doing their due diligence to select the right deduplicating system.