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Junk it: How BAE saves $3.2m a year by throwing out excess data

Charlee Gothard

Charlee Gothard

25 March 2015 • 6 min read

Active Navigation and an employee reward scheme was all it took

"Every IT person should be saving at least 10 per cent of their annual yearly salary," BAE Systems data centre storage director Mark Tango tells Computing. "And that is not a stretch. IT people ...

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