David Matusow, Center of Excellence architect at Sungard Availability Services (www.availability.sungard.com), says one of the biggest mistakes is looking for the exotic. Often, he adds, it’s the simple solutions that are both the easiest to implement and the fastest to get done and have very significant areas of improvement.

For example, Matusow says simple things such as implementing sleep modes on servers and lighting can result in very sizeable gains without the need to incur capital expenditures requiring top management approval levels.

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