Energy Efficiency

Power struggle

As a CIO or IT leader of a small and mid-sized business (SMB), you know that data centers help manage increasing business demands, create new opportunities and improve competitiveness.

But increasing capacity growth at data centers often lead to higher energy costs. Consider these:

• Nearly 50 percent of SMBs cited energy as one of their largest cost increases over the past two years.¹
• On average around 60 percent of total annual energy consumption is used by non-IT equipment, such as cooling, fans, pumps and UPS systems.²

Add limited resources, space constraints, budget limitations, market volatility and buyer demands for better green practices, and you can imagine why CIOs are worried about mushrooming costs at data centers.

Powering efficiency

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That means you are always one step ahead while your competitors worry about rising energy costs.

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¹Result from an IBM survey of more than 1,100 executives from small and midsize businesses across ten markets in Europe, Asia and the Americas. IBM, IT energy efficiency for small and mid-size businesses: Good for business and the environment, December 2007
²Gartner, The Data Center Power and Cooling Challenge, David Cappuccio and Lynne Craver, November 2007