It’s Easy Being Green,” “Got Green?,” “Green Saves the Planet”— Ecologically-friendly products have come a long way since the early 2000s, when every other newspaper headline touted the novelty of the movement by quoting Kermit the Frog. It didn’t take long for the security industry to join the green revolution, but green security now is so much more – the value of eco-conscious security is extending to cost-savings and efficiency-boosting, not solely reputation.
In the 2012 Energy Efficient IT Report from CDW, a survey of 760 IT professionals across five industries showed a strong increase of interest in “green” initiatives, with 43 percent citing them as the top driver for data center consolidation – up from 34 percent the year before. And, on average, 32 percent of the respondents’ data center purchasing is green.