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
4

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
7

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
13

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
15

$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
30

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
33

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
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