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| IN THE CURRENT ISSUE OF THE BARKING SEAL ... Greening your IT infrastructure: Save money while saving the planet Being ‘green’ was once merely a sign of virtue that earned a badge of good corporate citizenship. Today, a number of factors have converged to the point where being green is an essential part of smart business. Energy costs are skyrocketing just as we are coming to understand how profound an effect our energy use has on our environment. At the same time we are being pressed to deploy more and more servers to deliver more and more applications, we’re running up against the space, power, and cooling constraints of our data centers. Our Information Technology (IT) staff is faced with supporting and maintaining an ever-growing farm of servers and storage. Even our employees are facing challenging personal trade-offs because of the rising cost of energy. It turns out that the way to resolve many of these dilemmas is to make choices that lessen the impact of our IT infrastructure on the environment — going green makes good business sense because it cuts costs in many areas. Click here to read the full issue. | | | Welcome to The Barking Seal Applied Trust is proud to launch The Barking Seal as our quarterly publication for our clients, supporters, and friends. Rather than trying to tell folks what we do, it's our hope that this can be a conduit to show you parts of our world. Our goal is for this newsletter to become one of your trusted sources of useful information about the IT security and infrastructure arena. Please let us know what you think about this issue, and future issues, of The Barking Seal. We want to hear your feedback not only about this newsletter, but about all of Applied Trust's services. We thank you for your loyal support. Give us a call if we can ever be of assistance. 
| Trent R. Hein
CEO | | Ned C. McClain
CTO | (Excerpted from the inaugural issue of The Barking Seal. Click here to read the full issue.) | |  |
