April 25, 2008—Digital Realty Trust, Inc., a leading owner and manager of corporate and Internet gateway datacenters, is reporting results from a new study of green datacenter trends that show significant changes since 2007. The findings are based on a survey of senior decision makers at leading North American corporations who are directly responsible for datacenter strategy, planning and technology.
Digital Realty Trust conducted a similar study in 2007, one of the first in-depth analyses of green trends in the datacenter industry.
Among the key findings, the survey found that the number of companies with a green data center is 51 percent, a since the 2007 study when 55 percent of companies answered the question affirmatively. This indicates that corporate adoption of green datacenter strategies has stalled or perhaps taken a step back since last year.
Additionally, 82 percent of companies say there is no clear industry standard forgreen datacenters. This figure is up from 75 percent in 2007, indicating that there is more ambiguity than clarity in the industry.
Digital Realty Trust is also publishing results from a Europe-focused study of green datacenter trends. The European survey shows that green datacenter initiatives currently have greater momentum in the UK, Germany, France, the Netherlands and Ireland. The European study does, however, find that companies in those countries see a similar lack of industry standards, an issue that could slow momentum as it appears to have done in North America. To read the full results of this European study, see the Web site.
Metrics reported in this study are based on Web-based surveys of IT decision makers at large corporations in North America with revenues of at least $1 billion and/or a size of at least 5000+ employees. More than half of the companies have revenues of $10 billion and more than a quarter of the companies have revenues of $40 billion. All survey participants are involved in the process of managing corporate datacenters, implementing new datacenters or expanding existing datacenters; and more than 80 percent of respondents are directly involved in final decisions regarding datacenter initiatives. The survey was conducted in March 2008.
For additional information, please visit Digital Realty Trust’s Web site.
