Going green

The statistics that for every dollar you spend on hardware you will spend $70 to power and cool that hard work over its life and that is project to grow over the next four years to the point where it will be a dollar spent on power and cooling for every dollar that you spend in hardware. Couple that with the fact that in many cases IT Managers or Data Center Managers have not been receiving their fair share of the energy bill.

The second set of issues are opefrational. Many customers simply cannot deploy another server device, another storage array into their data center because they cannot get any more power into the data center or they cannot dissipate the heat that is being generate with the data center.

Finally there is a set of global issues. It is undeniable that the planet climate is changing and that man has a role in that. so people are very concerned and in fact in the global war for talent it is interesting to note that recent surveys show that the number one criteria for a college graduate evaluating a company to work for beyond compesation and and health benefits was how green is the company that I'm going to work for. so in a global war for talent your ability to demosntrate that you're green to your customers and to potential employees is critically important.

As an Engineer, I'm commited to create products that are dramatically smarter, safer and more eco responsible because we need products desing to power usage to our global take-back and recycling programs.