Generic sampling of some of the research work I do.

1. Sustainable IT?!
Some Facts !
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2. $2.4 billion
…amount that Google spent on
data centers in 2007
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3. $500 million
…cost of a typical Microsoft or Google
data center
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4. $21 million
…savings Cisco IT will achieve through
implementing storage virtualization
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5. 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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6. 70%
…amount of worldwide electricity
that is derived from carbon based
sources
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7. 51%
…amount of world electricity derived
from coal
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8. 10 days
…is the average frequency that China is
building a new coal burning plant
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9. 7%
…amount of embedded energy from
coal that makes it to a power outlet
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10. 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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11. 271 exabytes
…of data stored worldwide
as of July 29, 2008
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12. 5 billion
…number of Ethernet network
connections by 2012
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13. 21%
…average server utilization in the US
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14. 35%
…average storage utilization in the US
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15. 60%
…estimated efficiency gain resulting
from aligned planning between facilities
and IT using actual power draws
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16. $145
…cost of a barrel of oil as of July 1, 2008
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17. 233%
…Saudi Arabia’s average profit margin
per $100/barrel oil
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18. 2%
…amount the IT industry contributes to
global Green House Gas emissions
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19. 2% is also what the
entire airline industry
contributes
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20. 13
…number of Cisco BU’s involved in
developing IP-based power
management solutions
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21. 25%
…publicly committed reduction goal
of Cisco’s carbon footprint from
2007 levels through 2012
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22. $185 million
…amount that Cisco paid for
electricity in 2008
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23. 0
…number of truly Green data centers
world wide unless you count all the
abacuses out there
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24. 20%
…Premium IT purchasers would
pay for a Green solution with
comparable performance
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25. 159,300
…metric tons of CO2 produced by a
mid-size data center over 10 years
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26. 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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27. 377,359
…number of people that water
could sustain over a ten year period
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28. 1.7 billion
…number of people without access
to clean drinking water worldwide
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29. 5%
…of the worlds population are
Americans
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30. 24%
…of the worlds energy is used by
Americans
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31. 177,000,000
…kW/Hr’s used by a typical mid-
sized data center over 10 years
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32. That is 17,700
US homes
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33. 145,000
…lbs of copper used in a typical
mid-sized data center over 10 years
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34. 29,000
…lbs of copper that could be
reduced by implementing Nexus
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35. 80%
…the carbon footprint of an Avatar
in SecondLIFE as compared to a
real person using US averages
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36. 31%
…average American obesity rate,
the worlds highest
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37. Consider the
impacts of how
you work, play
and learn
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38. 200
…miles driven in a Toyota Camry,
the equivalent impact of a 2-point
Telepresence session for one hour
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39. 106
…number of times a typical web
transaction is touched by IT
infrastructure
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40. 20
…number of times a typical web
transaction is touched using Cisco’s
Application Control Engine (ACE)
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41. 5.3 tons
…of CO2 produced by a single
volume server in one year using US
average electrical emissions
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42. 4.4 tons
…of CO2 produced by a Toyota
Camry driving 15,000 miles in one
year
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43. 1
…volume server will produce 1,000
times its own weight in CO2 over a
5 year period
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