Green Survey Finds Lack Of Funds

By David Hamilton, theWHIR.com

September 3, 2008 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — While a majority of chief information officers and other senior IT executives strongly agree that an environmentally friendly data center will become mission-critical in the coming years, yet many “lack the ‘green’ to go green,” according to a new survey.

Israeli server and storage switching and software developer Voltaire (voltaire.com) released the results of its survey Wednesday, finding almost 90 percent of executives polled said making their data centers more environmentally friendly is crucial in meeting their companies’ business objectives in 2009, but 76 percent said they do not have a committed budget for a greening policy.

The survey, which queried CIOs, chief technology officers and other IT executives who attended the 2008 MIT Sloan CIO Symposium, also reported that 57 percent of respondents said going green gives them a competitive advantage.

“It appears from these findings that senior IT management is still in the planning phases, and they will need to prioritize funding for these important greening initiatives,” Voltaire global sales and general manager executive vice president Patrick Guay said in a statement. (more…)

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