Symantec announced their Veritas Operations Services today, built around their Storage Foundation and Veritas Clustered Server products. I think there is a lot more than meets the eye with this - utility computing customers of Veritas and 3PAR will soon be able to take advantage of the recently announced Veritas Thin Reclamation API which reclaims storage space that is no longer being used. The end result is much more efficient use of storage, which means fewer disk drives will be needed, which means the cost of storage and the power and cooling costs associated with it can be significantly minimized.
If you are worried about spending too much on storage and on managing storage, you need to look into this. If you are in California you can even get an energy rebate from PG&E for buying 3PAR storage. Its not greenwashing or posing - its real energy efficiency.
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