Emailing "State of the Green Datacenter"
Symantec and Applied Research polled several enterprises to discover
how they were faring IT-wise. Apart from the server, storage and personnel issues I discussed in that article, they also took a moment to report on the state of datacenter greening.
Unsurprisingly, the rising cost of running IT operations is the primary reason most are pursuing energy saving strategies, though social responsibility has a strong showing...
We asked companies why creating a Green Data Center was important to their workplace. Reducing electricity consumption was mentioned by 54 percent, followed by reducing cooling costs (51 percent) and a sense of responsibility to the community (42 percent).
We then asked what they specifically planned to do within the next 12 months. Again, reducing annual energy costs topped the list at 28 percent, tied with recycling obsolete hardware, and followed by using cleaner power sources (21 percent).
According to the report, they plan to follow up with a more detailed study during the first half of 2009. We'll be watching out for it.