A recent survey by Voltaire Ltd. found that, although CxOs and senior IT executives strongly believe that a green data center will become mission-critical, many lack the necessary funds needed to have their data centers go green. Voltaire is a provider of grid backbone solutions for networked computing in the next generation data center.
According to their survey, almost 90 percent of senior IT executives believed that greening their data centers will be crucial to meeting their companies' business objectives in 2009, and 57 percent said they believe going green gives them a competitive advantage. However, 76 percent at present do not have a committed budget for a greening policy.
In response to these findings, Voltaire developed a "50-50-300 Pledge," which states that IT executives, working with the company to deploy a Voltaire unified fabric, can save 50 percent on power/cooling related to server interconnections and 50 percent on hardware allocation/usage, while delivering up to a 300 percent increase in application performance. Voltaire has also developed an Efficiency Calculator to help IT executives estimate their network energy and cost savings and justify the investment. This can be found at: http://www.voltaire.com/unifiedfabric