An Inconvenient IT Truth

An Inconvenient IT Truth by Michael Vizard Editorial Director Ziff Davis Enterprise Group

There’s a 24 percent chance that an IT organization will experience issues with power on its network.

Source: APC-MGE

Surveys show that 48 percent of IT budgets is being spent on energy.

And 70 percent of those surveyed say power and cooling are now their biggest problem.

More than 50 percent of the power going into a typical data center goes to the power and

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The power industry is not adding enough capacity to keep pace with worldwide demand.

The closer your data center is to inexpensive power sources, the better. Google is moving its data centers to the Columbia River area to save money.

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By 2008, 50 percent of today’s data centers will have insufficient power and cooling.

Through 2009, energy costs will emerge as the second-highest operating cost of a data center, behind labor.

Source: Gartner

By 2010, half of all data centers will have to relocate or outsource applications to another facility.

Over the next five years, 90 percent of all companies will experience a power disruption.

In that same period, one in four companies will

Unless IT organizations take a proactive approach to green computing, they will not have the necessary dollars needed to invest in the system.

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