Green Software for Green Data Centers
Power management, automation, and virtualization software can help
enterprises create ‘Green’ data centers, believes research firm IDC. In
its recent survey, IDC’s Asia/Pacific Green Poll, the researcher finds
Green IT technology gaining strong momentum and mindshare across the
region.
According to IDC's latest research, “Green IT Software – Nutritious
Supplements for Your Datacenter”, Green IT software can enable
significant economical benefits as well as environmental sustainability
through the efficient management of existing hardware or services within
data centers.
With
rising power costs in data center operations, a top concern of IT
decision makers across the Asia/Pacific excluding Japan (APEJ) region,
applications that can help to better manage power and cooling and
improve management, automation, load and capacity administration of
these servers, will be in demand.
"As
businesses in APEJ continue to grow, power consumption in energy hungry
data centers also increases. Green IT technologies have become even more
appealing as businesses look towards energy efficient solutions to
reduce power consumption and to alleviate the costs," says Adren Lim,
market analyst of IDC’s Asia/Pacific Software Research.
IDC has
classified these applications into three main categories: power
monitoring and management tools, asset management and automation tools,
and server virtualization software.
Here
are the details of the IDC survey:
Q. Will your organization be
doing a formal assessment of your data center(s) with the goal of
reducing power consumption over the next 12 months?
No. of
respondents = 582
Source: IDC
Asia/Pacific Green Poll
Through
its survey, IDC finds Green IT technology gaining strong momentum and
mindshare across the region. This is largely driven by benefits from
cost savings, followed by corporate social responsibility (CSR) and
compliance. This result was based on the strong response of over 75% of
the surveyed population agreeing that cost savings was the main reason
for them to invest in green IT technology.
Respondents also revealed the level of "greenness" portrayed by the IT
suppliers had become increasingly important when they made buying
decision on IT-related materials.
