Survey: Most want green IT but many won’t get it soon | TechTarget
Summary
“The cost of transporting data is high and so is the cost of keeping it in datacentres,” said Pure Storage chief technology officer (CTO) Alex McMullan, citing International Energy Agency figures that estimate 1% of global electricity is used in datacentres and 1% is used in moving data. “Half of that is storage.” But, said McMullan, the attitude of a large number of respondents is to try to reduce energy consumption as much as they can but that they will never get to carbon neutral. McMullan argued that IT decision-makers need to build sustainability goals into hardware selection during the storage procurement process. According to McMullan, those that want to achieve sustainability targets and reduce energy use need to build it into the procurement process and supplier selection. Also, he pointed towards subscription and pay-as-you-go models as a good way of reducing dependence on the traditional refresh cycle, cutting spending on hardware that might otherwise end up in landfill and enabling more efficient use of storage capacity.