Green data centers are finding increased levels of acceptance with the companies these days. A green data center is where the companies store, manage, and disseminate data where the lighting, mechanical, electrical and computer systems are created for highest energy efficiency and the least environmental impact. The creation and administration of a green data center consists of state of the art technologies and strategies.
Recently, Pike Research (News - Alert) released a report where it stated that the global market for green data centers will increase from $17.1 billion in 2012 to $45.4 billion by 2016. According to the company report, this constitutes a compound annual growth rate of nearly 28 percent.
According to the report, virtualization and cloud computing are the two trends that are driving the evolution of data centers. Virtualization is considered to be a major step in saving energy. But the report states that companies will need to make use of the other factors of the data center infrastructure to get the best possible results when it comes to conserving the energy.
“There is no single technology or design model that makes a data center green,” says research director Eric Woods. “In fact, the green data center is connected to the broader transformation that data centers are undergoing – a transformation that encompasses technical innovation, operational improvements, new design principles, changes to the relationship between IT and business, and changes in the data center supply chain.”
Recently, the company released another report where it stated that a part of Navigant's Energy Practice, installations of the networks especially through wireless communications nodes, making use of radio frequency (RF) mesh, Wi-Fi, WiMAX, or LTE (News - Alert) technology will contract this year.
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Edited by Brooke Neuman