Green Datacenters Have Long Term Implications- Study Reveals
Digital Realty Trust, Inc., a owner and manager of corporate datacenters and Internet gateways, is reporting new research data that evaluates the future of green datacenter trends. The findings are from a recently completed survey of senior decisionmakers at North America's leading corporations who are directly responsible for strategy, planning and technology evaluation for datacenter operations.
Key findings from the research study are:
- Despite the very recent emergence of green initiatives in the datacenter industry, 55 percent of companies polled have already established a detailed green datacenter strategy. This indicates that green initiatives are viewed as a key long-term factor in datacenter planning and operations.
- More than 80 percent of companies polled confirmed that their green datacenter strategies encompass not only computers and servers which have been the primary focus of most coverage of green IT trends but also facility design and operations. This indicates that companies are taking a comprehensive approach to green datacenter initiatives that will maximize their energy efficiency gains.
- More than 60 percent of companies polled project that having a green datacenter strategy will become an important factor in their vendor selections over the next 24 months. This indicates that IT vendors and datacenter partners will need to adopt green strategies as rigorous as the corporate customers they serve in order to remain competitive in the marketplace. This is another indication that green datacenter trends will broaden rather than diminish over time.
- Nearly three quarters of companies polled (73 percent) said that there is no clear industry standard for what meets the criteria of being a truly "green datacenter." In the absence of a universal standard for green datacenters, the fact that the majority of companies have created their own individual, corporate green datacenter plan indicates that companies are filling that standards void themselves with self-defined green initiatives rather than waiting for industry-wide standards to be fully defined.
These data points indicate that green, energy-efficient datacenter trends have been adopted more quickly and more deeply than previously believed. Even for people who have been tracking green IT trends closely, many of these metrics will be surprising.
Another key finding of the survey is the strong feedback from participants that the industry lacks codified operational standards for green datacenters. This is clearly an area where more work needs to be done, and will be a key factor in enabling companies to extend their green initiatives and establish green standards for their technology vendors and datacenter partners.
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