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Energy Reduction: Shocking Statistics
Shocking stats to help you understand why you need to take action to reduce the energy use of your ICT systems.
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- From Climate Savers Computing Initiative
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- The average desktop PC wastes nearly half of the energy it consumes as heat. This wasted electricity translates to higher electricity bills and increased greenhouse gas emissions.
- Using power management features on your computer can save nearly half a ton of CO2 and more than $60 a year in energy costs.
- A new ENERGY STAR compliant PC or laptop uses 15 to 25 percent less energy on average than a standard new computer. Energy Star Specifications
- ENERGY STAR 4.0 is expected to save consumers and businesses more than $1.8 billion in energy costs over the next 5 years and prevent greenhouse gas emissions equal to the annual emissions of 2.7 million vehicles. Energy Star Specifications
- As long as they are plugged in, your computer and other electronic devices continue to use electricity – even when they are turned off or in standby mode. A computer uses up to 10 watts when it is turned off but still plugged in. Green Living Tips Website
- You can reduce your electricity bills by as much as 10% by unplugging appliances and electronics when they are not in use. Cnet Review
- “According to Forrester, half of businesses surveyed wanted green IT investments to slash their energy consumption, and four in 10 wanted to extend the life of their technology.” Computer World UK
- “… about 57 percent of IT managers purchase Energy Star devices now, compared to just 31 percent in 2008, according to the 2009 Energy Efficient IT Report (PDF) from CDW.” Environmental Leader
- K-12 survey respondents report 54% have reduced energy costs in 2009 compared with 38% in 2008. They accomplished this by migrating to LCD monitors, buying energy star certified hardware and using lower power servers. 2009 Energy Efficient IT Report (PDF) Page 34.
- In the CDW survey, “59% [of organizations] are training employees to shut down equipment when they leave their offices for extended periods.” 2009 Energy Efficient IT Report (PDF) Page 4.
- By implementing recommendations in the CDW report, K-12 institutions believe they could reduce their IT energy costs by 18%. 2009 Energy Efficient IT Report (PDF) Page 35.
- “90% of the survey respondents said that their next server purchase is likely to have the Energy Star label.” Computer World
- “… more organizations are implementing server virtualization and using desktop power management features this year than in 2008.” Computer World
- The Energy Information Administration (the official energy stats of the US Government) reports:
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- “Energy-related [not just electricity generation] carbon dioxide emissions, resulting from the combustion of petroleum, coal, and natural gas, represented 82 percent of total U.S. anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions in 2006.”
- “In 2006, Electricity generation consumed 40 percent of U.S. primary energy and is responsible for 40 percent of carbon dioxide emissions. In the electric power sector, coal accounts for 83 percent of the emissions.”
- "55% of IT energy consumption comes from outside of the data center … Forrester expects enterprise IT organizations to turn to PC power management software." (TechRadar™ For I&O Professionals: Green IT 1.0 Technologies, Q2 2009, Forrester Research, Inc., June 12, 2009.)
- “By 2010 the Consumer Electronics (including ICT) sector [in the UK] will be the biggest single user of domestic electricity, overtaking the traditionally high consuming sectors of cold appliances and lighting.” The Ampere Strikes Back
- “AMD’s 45nm Quad-Core Opteron EE processor is 62 percent more efficient than its predecessor, delivering a 13 percent reduction in platform-level power consumption.” Environmental Leader
- “Microsoft's environmental impact isn’t limited to its massive data centers or its commuting employees. With hundreds of millions of PCs draining batteries and tapping into power outlets around the world, even a small tweak in Microsoft Windows can influence global energy consumption.”
- “One big focus [of Windows 7 development] was on cutting the energy consumed by computer displays, which account for a big slice of the power used by the overall system — as much as 40 percent on mobile computers.”
- Other Windows 7 power related changes include adding new tools for managing energy consumption, and changing the way the operating system runs different services in the background.
- In North America, 88% of corporate PCs can run Windows 7 today, says Softchoice. They also found that 93% of corporate PCs are still running the 8-year-old Windows XP operating system. Reported ComputerWorld.
- XP did not have power management turned on by default; therefore there is tremendous opportunity here.
- “About 35 percent of IT managers are using storage virtualization this year, up from 27 percent in 2008, according to the 2009 Energy Efficient IT Report (PDF) from CDW.
- “Additionally, 46 percent of IT managers have adopted server virtualization, up from 35 percent in 2008. About 52 percent of organizations that are actively working to reduce energy consumption are seeing tangible results of 1 percent or more in energy savings, according to the report. That’s up from 39 percent last year.” Environmental Leader
- Northwest Regional Education Service Department implemented virtualization and the changes enabled the agency to reallocate most of the money dedicated to the data center upgrade to educational programs, rather than IT. CDW Page 36
- Three of the top four technologies identified in the list of Gartner’s 2010 Top 10 Strategic Technologies are: cloud computing (SaaS), client computing (virtualization), and IT for green - energy reduction, e-documents and teleworking.
- Three of the top four technologies identified in the list of Gartner’s 2009 Top 10 Strategic Technologies are: virtualization, cloud computing (SaaS), and green IT- greener energy footprint. From CMSWire
- “The market for software as a service (SaaS) is forecast to reach $8 billion in 2009, a 21.9 percent increase from 2008 revenue of $6.6 billion, according to Gartner, Inc.”
- “More than 50 per cent of the survey respondents saw SaaS as a viable alternative to an existing on-premises solution and 40 per cent saw SaaS as a complementary addition to their IT environments.” Gartner
- “Computerworld UK — Nine out of ten companies plan to grow their use of software-as-a-service (SaaS) in the next year, according to a survey by Gartner. More than one third of respondents (37%) plan to replace on-premises software with SaaS to drive down total cost of ownership (TCO), Gartner found.” IT World
- Gartner reported, “Seventy one per cent of French survey respondents said that their organization currently uses SaaS for enterprise applications, compared to 68 per cent in the UK and 45 per cent in Germany.”
- “Overall, customer relationship management (CRM) is the most popular SaaS application across the three countries, ahead of enterprise resource planning; content communications and collaboration; and supply chain management. Gartner said that CRM’s popularity is likely a result of the media exposure of high-profile vendors such as Salesforce.com.” Gartner
- “Overall, SaaS accounted for more than 18 percent of the CRM market total revenue in 2008.” Gartner
- “By 2010, 20 per cent of organizations will have an industry-specific analytic application delivered via software as a service (SaaS) as a standard component of their business intelligence portfolio” Gartner
- “European firms trailed behind North American companies when it came to plans to increase investments in SaaS or subscription-model products. But 49 percent of European respondents said that they expect new investments to increase slightly and 15 percent expect significant increases in investments. This compares to 62 percent and 15 percent respectively in North America. The US has been an early adopter of SaaS, with more than 20 percent of respondents indicating use for five years or longer and 60 percent having adopted it in the last three years.” IT World
- “According to a Gartner survey of 333 UK and U.S. companies, 32 percent are planning to increase their SaaS investment, 58 percent intend to maintain their investment and 10 percent plan to decrease or discontinue their level of investment. In addition, on a satisfaction scale of 7.0 users rated their SaaS experience on average at 4.74.” ZDNet UK.
- “Of the companies surveyed that hadn't deployed SaaS, 42 percent said cost was a barrier, 38 percent had integration concerns, and 33 percent said SaaS failed to meet their technical requirements, according to I.” ITBusinessEdge, July 2009
- “Given today’s turbulent economic climate in which many organizations are actually downsizing their operations, maintaining SaaS current levels isn’t necessarily a bad thing. Instead, it demonstrates the staying power of SaaS solutions and how the more flexible pay-as-you-go SaaS subscription approach is well-suited for today’s economic uncertainties.” Seeking Alpha
