Save money and save the planet:

The 3PAR and other hardware vendors' initiatives are of course important, but I am concerned that it does not go nearly far enough. In fact the feel green, feel good factor for the storage guys does not go far enough. One of the easiest approaches is to use what you already have, but smarter. Take the data you have, put it onto spare capacity in your infrastructure, break the stovepipe storage culture and save your IT piggybank.

If you chose only two rules to archive, then choose to archive everything older than 6 months that hasn’t been modified in the last three months. You can probably not buy any new hardware for a year. “Free storage for a year” has to be a great motto for 2007.

Save your carbon credits for where you really need it, for processing your data, not storing it. Save money, save carbon credits, save the planet. Now that’s got a great ring to it, and the IT department could earn some real business, as well as environmentally-aware, kudos in the board room.

Tony Cotterill, CEO, BridgeHead Software

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