The Aperture Research Institute (ARI) has released a new survey report on attaining green initiatives in data centers and they have accounted that organizations lack the tools to measure energy efficiency, and lack processes to charge the business for energy use. In addition, many of them do not decommission “ghost” servers that are no longer needed.
The Aperture Research Institute has been established to share expertise and market intelligence about data centers and how they are managed. Aperture is a provider of software for managing the physical infrastructure of data centers.
Steve Yellen, the principal of the Aperture Research Institute said, "Although many organizations have made a commitment to cutting their environmental impact, when it comes to the data center, most lack the tools and processes they need if they are to deliver on that promise. The number one cause of increasing power consumption is an increase in demand for IT services, so business managers must be made accountable for the energy their applications consume. Only 24 percent of organizations we surveyed said the IT department charges the business for energy use. They simply don't have the technology to be able to implement the management processes they need.”
This new study is a follow-up to a previously released report in March this year, which found out that although 70 percent of organizations are adopting the green initiative, 19 percent of them have neglected data centers as a part of it.
This latest study also found that 74 percent of those surveyed refused to start power saving features on devices if it would require a drop in performance, as they claim their users will not tolerate such a drop in performance in an effort to save power. It also added that 37 percent are concerned that the power/performance ratio doesn't add up, while 15 percent worry that they have no way to track whether the power saving setting is on or off.
It was also discovered that most organizations tend to be more objective on brand and profit, rather than on power savings, easy disposal, and energy efficiency. 37 percent of data centers have no plans to measure energy efficiency, and 76 percent do not charge the business for the power used by the IT commissioned. The reason for such is said to be the lack of infrastructure for measuring power consumption.
The survey adds that “Ghost Servers” haunt the Data Centers of 19 percent of the organizations. This is a factor that results from servers which the business no longer need, but which have not been switched off, and are a result of wasted electricity, space and other limited resources. The survey also found that decommissioning processes are not strictly followed.
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