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Sustainable IT?!Some Facts !
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$2.4 billion …amount that Google spent on data centers in 2007
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$500 million …cost of a typical Microsoft or Google data center
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$21 million …savings Cisco IT will achieve through implementing storage virtualization
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6,250 …equivalent number of homes that could be powered by Cisco IT’s power surplus resulting from SAN consolidation in 2007-2008
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70% …amount of worldwide electricity that is derived from carbon based sources
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51% …amount of world electricity derived from coal
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10 days …is the average frequency that China is building a new coal burning plant
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7% …amount of embedded energy from coal that makes it to a power outlet
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dirty …coal is the number 1 contributor to Green House Gas emissions and the number 1 source of atmospheric heavy metal deposition
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271 exabytes
…of data stored worldwide as of July 29, 2008
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5 billion …number of Ethernet network connections by 2012
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21% …average server utilization in the US
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35% …average storage utilization in the US
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60% …estimated efficiency gain resulting from aligned planning between facilities and IT using actual power draws
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$145 …cost of a barrel of oil as of July 1, 2008
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233% …Saudi Arabia’s average profit margin per $100/barrel oil
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2% …amount the IT industry contributes to global Green House Gas emissions
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2% is also what the entire airline industry contributes
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13 …number of Cisco BU’s involved in developing IP-based power management solutions
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25% …publicly committed reduction goal of Cisco’s carbon footprint from 2007 levels through 2012
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$185 million …amount that Cisco paid for electricity in 2008
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0 …number of truly Green data centers world wide unless you count all the abacuses out there
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20% …Premium IT purchasers would pay for a Green solution with comparable performance
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159,300 …metric tons of CO2 produced by a mid-size data center over 10 years
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60,000,000 …gallons of water used by a typical mid-sized data center over 10 years and no it’s not typically recycled
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377,359 …number of people that water could sustain over a ten year period
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1.7 billion …number of people without access to clean drinking water worldwide
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5% …of the worlds population are Americans
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24% …of the worlds energy is used by Americans
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177,000,000 …kW/Hr’s used by a typical mid-sized data center over 10 years
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That is 17,700 US homes
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145,000 …lbs of copper used in a typical mid-sized data center over 10 years
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29,000 …lbs of copper that could be reduced by implementing Nexus
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80% …the carbon footprint of an Avatar in SecondLIFE as compared to a real person using US averages
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31% …average American obesity rate, the worlds highest
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Consider the impacts of how you work, play and learn
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200 …miles driven in a Toyota Camry, the equivalent impact of a 2-point Telepresence session for one hour
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106 …number of times a typical web transaction is touched by IT infrastructure
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20 …number of times a typical web transaction is touched using Cisco’s Application Control Engine (ACE)
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5.3 tons …of CO2 produced by a single volume server in one year using US average electrical emissions
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4.4 tons …of CO2 produced by a Toyota Camry driving 15,000 miles in one year
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1 …volume server will produce 1,000 times its own weight in CO2 over a 5 year period