Mumbai, India-May 26,
2008-NetApp, a leading provider of innovative storage and
data management solutions, today announced the findings of a "Green
IT" survey conducted in India. The survey, commissioned and
undertaken by NetApp India among its customers, assesses the impact
of, and the drivers for, reducing power consumption in corporate
data centres.
The survey of corporate IT managers across
Delhi, Mumbai and Bangalore covered mid-size and large enterprises.
"The survey findings highlight that a majority of companies today
believe that the power utilities should provide an incentive on net
savings achieved on power consumption in data centres," said George
Thomas, Managing Director-India & SAARC, NetApp.
Delhi based companies see this as most
important, with 77% of respondents wanting 10% or more of the power
consumption savings as incentives. Mumbai follows with 66%
respondents wanting this incentive, followed by Bangalore with
62%.
Other key findings of the Green IT
survey by NetApp India:
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Environmental concerns not the
front-runner in driving Green IT
Reduction in energy costs is the key driver of Green IT for 36% of
all respondents, and 25% believe that simplification of IT
infrastructure is the key driver, while environmental concerns top
the list for only 23% of respondents. Surprisingly, 11% of the
respondents gave priority to savings in real estate requirements
(to host IT assets at a data centre) as the key driver of Green
IT.
"Increasing energy costs can eat into the company's profitability,
hence reduction in power consumption should be a key concern for
corporate India", opines Thomas.
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Server consolidation and storage
efficiency becoming popular for reducing power
consumption
40% respondents believe that server consolidation can significantly
reduce power consumption in data centres while 27% believe that
storage efficiency can curtail data centre power consumption. 32%
of respondents who recommend server consolidation also believe
storage efficiency can have a significant impact on power
consumption.
Says Thomas, "According to estimates, for each watt used by the
server or storage, airconditioning, power supplies, and other
related equipment together require nearly 1.5 times that amount, so
reducing physical servers and disks goes a long way in reducing
power consumption in the data centre. Server and storage
virtualization have emerged as the key enabling technologies in
this context, and companies who adopt these technologies can
potentially realize significant savings in power consumption".
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Many companies still do not monitor
power consumption in their data centres
A significant 28% of the respondents admit that they have not yet
measured power, cooling and space costs in their data centres,
whereas 19% of the respondents say that power, cooling and space
eats up over 20% of their IT budgets. 26% respondents put this
figure at 10-20% of the IT budget, while 22% respondents put it at
5-10%.
"While it is good to note that a majority of companies measure
power, cooling and space costs in their data centres, we believe
this should be a priority on the to-do list of all companies,
considering the overall impact of these line items on IT costs",
opines Thomas.
Survey Methodology
The survey was conducted independently by NetApp India at its
annual user conference held at the 3 metros (Mumbai, Delhi and
Bangalore), which over 275 corporate IT managers attended.
Concludes Thomas, "Rising power consumption
in the data center is an issue both from social and business
standpoints. Today, enterprises need solutions to reduce their
overall data center footprint, maximize storage utilization and
reduce the amount of raw storage required to support their
applications, in order to achieve the goal of reducing power
consumption in the data centre".
For information on how NetApp can help
enterprises reduce data centre power consumption, please visit
http://www.netapp.com/company/our-story/green/power-conservation.html.
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Contact Details
Arati Bam
NetApp India
Ph: (080) 4184 3000
Email: arati.bam@netapp.com