Green Storage Shades Across the Atlantic: Survey (25-Sep-07)
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A recent survey by Bridgehead Software has found that North American businesses are more worried about running out of power in the data centre, whereas, British companies appeared to be more concerned about the environment.
Bridgehead highlights how moving data from a spinning disk onto a non-rotating tape or optical disk will reduce electricity bills and could save upto 80% of primary storage. Storage problems have arisen partly in response to companies running scared about compliance, but it is also due to the fact that technolgy purchasing power isn't always in the IT department. For a real difference to be made an enterprise wide approach to archiving will need to be taken rather than a divisional approach where archiving is taking place for compliance and disaster recovery reasons only.
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The biggest reason why North American and British businesses want to reduce storage power consumption is to cut their electricity bills, but in the two locations some of their other motives for going green are different.
North American businesses are much more likely than their UK counterparts to be worried about running out of power in their data centers, while more British companies are concerned about the environment. Those are the findings of a survey completed this summer by archiving specialist Bridgehead Software.
Of North American respondents to the survey, 67% cited electricity costs as a motive for reducing power consumption, against 73% in the UK.
Concern over power capacity was cited by 59% of respondents in North America, compared to only 35% in Britain. When it came to the environment, the numbers were about reversed, with 35% of North American respondents naming environmental concerns as a reason to reduce power consumption, compared to 57% in the UK.
The survey covered 324 IT managers in North America, and 148 in the UK.
Of the North American respondents, 88% said that storage vendors should improve the efficiency of their products, but another 74% said that they themselves could reduce energy consumption, simply by managing data differently.
As an archiving supplier, Bridgehead pointed out that moving data off spinning disk onto non-rotating tape or optical disk will reduce electricity bills.
"61% of organizations in our survey said that between 30% and 50% of data on their primary disk is unlikely to be accessed ever again," said Bridgehead marketing vice president Patrick Dowling.
BridgeHead said that while businesses are beginning to archive specific types of data such as emails for compliance and disaster recovery reasons, few are archiving data to cut energy consumption.
Much of this archiving is currently being driven by non-IT departments such as finance. But to use archiving to cut power consumption significantly, customers will need to take an "enterprise-wide" approach to archiving, Bridgehead said.
- Source: [Computergram]
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