Weren't able to attend Storage Networking World in Dallas? Then you missed out on some sessions dedicated to greening up your storage.

Our colleague Marty Foltyn at Enterprise Storage Forum was able to go and he brought back some tales on how some data centers were able to not only cut power costs, but also some storage management overhead in the process.

Take, for instance this, example:

Security brokerage Morgan Keegan evaluated modular arrays and monolithic storage before selecting a highly virtualized clustered system to reduce environmental loads. Their implementation of dual active data centers as a new virtualized IT platform cut purchased raw capacity by 16TB, provided an 85 percent reduction in storage administration, and reduced to seconds the time needed to provision storage.

Dreamworks Animation opted for greener storage by reusing and recycling disks. Plus:

DreamWorks' strategy incorporated high-density spindles and enclosures and increasing density with compression and de-duplication; single transparent namespaces and NAS arrays for low labor costs.

Keep reading for the full recap.