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Rising energy costs and the need to consolidate IT infrastructure will force business managers to re-evaluate data retention policies and learn how much power every device in their data center consumes, said IT executives today on a panel at Computerworld’s Storage Networking World conference.
The executives said that while social responsibility and proposed regulatory pressures to build more environmentally friendly data centers are grabbing all the headlines, the real impetus to “go green” is a mandate by many organizations to trim present and future costs by understanding how data is used, stored and accessed within an IT environment.
Andrew Fanara, team leader for the Energy Star Product Specifications Development Group at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, said green IT projects are becoming a risk management strategy around planning for the future prices, volatility and potential supply issues of energy.
