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April 16, 2008

The Business Performance Management Forum, along with network storage company BlueArc announced today that they have released a new report that highlights problems as well as opportunities regarding green computing. The research also shows methods in combating increased energy consumption, performance demands and overall waste in corporate data centers across the nation.

In the report called "Lean & Green - Reducing IT Energy Drain for Business Gain," BPM found that despite some concerns for making data center facilities more environmentally friendly, most IT managers gave their operations failing grades in reducing energy consumption.

About 49.8 percent of IT managers also said that their organizations have run out of energy resources within the past twelve to eighteen monhts.

Derek Kober, director of the BPM Forum said "the overall results of the study point to a serious gap between what IT leadership needs to do and what it has accomplished in terms of environmental responsibility up until today."

"In polling the marketplace and talking with industry leaders, we have heard that there are opportunities for those that deliver on the environmental promise to also save substantial costs and drive revenue opportunities through more efficient and enhanced data performance practices," added Kober.

The BPM findings reflect responses from more than 150 IT professionals in an online survey completed two months ago, and a set of interviews with industry and environmental executives complements the study.

The survey reveals that about 63 percent of the respondents had no specific green plans in place for their data center, even though 47 percent of those polled said IT energy consumption increased in their organization in 2007, even as the cost of energy rose.

Approximately 19.1 percent of respondents spent more than $1 million per year on energy consumption while another 7.9 percent spent more than $10 million.

Additionally, BPM said that more than 45.9 percent of respondents reported that they simply ran out of space, power or cooling capacity in their data centers.

The Business Performance Management Forum says it is dedicated to advancing performance accountability, process improvement, operational visibility and compliance in global organizations and provides support to thousands of senior executives and practitioners representing enterprises with more than $500 billion in combined annual revenues.

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Source: Tech Blog