Sun Customer Survey On The Environment
In our last newsletter (the Green Edition) we focussed on the greener future that we’re all starting to think about more seriously.
In line with that, Sun Microsystems undertook a survey of their customers during the middle of this year to get an idea of how green the Sun community really is.
Here are some interesting statistics from the Sun customers surveyed:
Measurement of carbon emissions
- 22% have practices in place to enable the measurement of carbon emissions
- 36% have no practices in place but are interested in evaluating them
- 33% have no plans to measure carbon emissions
Annual power costs
- 44% spend more than $1 million on power annually
- 8% spend between $750k and $1 million on power annually
- 7% spend between $500k and $750k million on power annually
- 15% spend between $100k and $500k on power annually
- 26% spend less than $100k on power annually
Greening the IT department
- 38% have dedicated green IT plans in place
- 23% plan to deploy eco responsible technology in the next 12 months
- 21% are evaluating putting green IT plans in place
- 15% have no plans at all
Drivers for uptake of green technology
- Reduced power consumption – 78%
- Lower costs – 73%
- Lower carbon emissions and environmental impact (eg recycling) – 61%
- Improved systems performance and utilisation – 50%
Strategies that would help green the IT department
- Energy efficient technologies – 73%
- Systems virtualisation – 66%
- Power and cooling solutions – 59%
- Data centre consolidation – 48%
The message that we’re all hearing now is that greening our IT departments is becoming a major priority for most organisations. If you would like more information about how Sun hardware can help you to meet your greener future, we have plenty of information that can help! Call us on 1800 777 111 or email us directly.
