In a conventional data center, 35% to 50% of electrical energy is devoted to cooling. With best practices, that proportion is reduced to 15%.

Twenty-six percent of conference attendees buy green products only when they lower costs, save space or defer data center construction. Thirty-four percent will buy green products even if they increase costs.

Storage spending is growing almost three times faster than the IT budget as a whole. From 2007 to 2011, storage spending will increase more than 7% a year, compared with annual IT budget growth of only 2.5%.

By 2012, users will install 6.5 times the amount of terabytes they installed in 2008.

Server virtualization, one of the key technologies driving costs down in data centers, is suitable for about 70% of workloads.