Study Reveals Green Data Center Focus

Symantec have released their 2009 Green IT Report looking at the actions taken by data center managers to "green up" their operations.

Almost all are claiming they are doing something:

"Ninety-five percent reported that they are replacing old equipment with new energy efficient equipment, 94 percent that they are monitoring power consumption, 94 percent said they were adopting server virtualization, and 93 percent said they were implementing server consolidation."

The sceptic in me says that these are things they would be doing anyway in terms of being more productive and the normal equipment life cycle.

The non-sceptic points out that these things are the foundation of improving (or mitigating) effects on the environment.

What would be useful is an idea of how many are doing radical things rather than just replacing old equipment with new, or simply changing the light bulbs.

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