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Are US Federal Agencies Ready to Comply withCurrent Energy Management Mandates?
Empowering Efficient IT
February 16, 2011
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Energy and Server Efficiency Solutions Could Save Fed $6 Billion Over the Next Five Years;
Research Suggests Federal Agencies Top Energy Management Priorities are Consolidating
Hardware and Generating Internal Awareness
Results have now been released of a recent study carried out by 1E to measuring Federal agencies awareness ofand ability to comply with energy management rules and regulations. The research indicates that only 13 percent
of Federal agency respondents were definitely ready to comply with mandatory energy reduction programs at
the end of 2010.
The study found that more than a quarter of respondents think their Federal agency is not required to comply with
mandatory energy reduction programs. Basic awareness of programs varied 50 percent were aware of the
Federal Data Center Consolidation Initiative, 38 percent were aware of the Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) Scorecards and 31 percent were aware of the Executive Order 13423 and Executive Order 13514.Meanwhile, twenty-three percent of respondents were unaware of any such programs.
Energy management strategies varied across respondent agencies, though consolidating hardware and generating
awareness were top responses when asked about current energy management strategies. This suggests that
energy management is still in its infancy within federal agencies. Proven PC power management solutions like
NightWatchman have been available for several years and have saved commercial customers more than $550
million in energy costs to date. Comprehensive server efficiency solutions are also available, like NightWatchmanServer, which helps identify servers that are not doing useful work. Server consolidation and awareness alone do
not lead to lasting savings.
Virtual server sprawl may be set to become a larger problem within federal agency data centers, as 58 percent of
respondents were aware of the issue, yet 29 percent do not monitor their virtual servers performance to
determine if those assets are doing useful work, or the tasks for which they were bought and provisioned. As
many respondents indicated that their energy management strategy is to consolidate hardware, the survey
suggests that underused virtual servers will become a greater cost drain on agencies if gone unchecked.
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0.00%
5.00%
10.00%
15.00%
20.00%
25.00%
30.00%
35.00%
40.00%
45.00%50.00%
Executive Order
13514
Executive Order
13423
Federal Data
Center
Consolidation
Initiative
(FDCCI)
OMB scorecard I am not aware
of any such
programs
Other
Are you aware of any of the following federal government
mandatory energy reduction programs? (select all that apply)
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0.00%
5.00%
10.00%
15.00%
20.00%
25.00%
30.00%
35.00%
40.00%
Executive Order
13514
Executive Order
13423
Federal Data
Center
Consolidation
Initiative
(FDCCI)
OMB scorecard No, my
organization is
not required to
comply
Other
Is your organization required to comply with any of the following
programs? (select all that apply)
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12.50%
70.83%
16.67%
Is your organization ready to comply today with the programs you
checked in Question #2?
Definitely ready
Still planning
Not ready
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0.00%
5.00%
10.00%
15.00%
20.00%
25.00%
30.00%
35.00%
40.00%
45.00%
50.00%
How would you best describe the direction of your current energy-
management strategy? (select up to three that apply)
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58.33%20.83%
20.83%
Are you aware of virtual server sprawl, where unused or
underused servers are virtualized without analyzing what useful
work the servers are doing?
Yes
No
I don't know
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0.00%
5.00%
10.00%
15.00%
20.00%
25.00%
30.00%
35.00%
40.00%
45.00%
50.00%
CPU Network traffic Application use We do not
monitor
physical server
work or
performance
I dont know Other
How does your organization currently analyze physical server
performance and useful work? (select all that apply)
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0.00%
5.00%
10.00%
15.00%
20.00%
25.00%
30.00%
CPU Network traffic Application use We do not
monitor virtual
server work or
performance
I dont know Other
How does your organization currently analyze virtual server
performance and useful work? (select all that apply)
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41.67%
16.67%
16.67%
16.67%
8.33%
Please indicate the number of servers within your organization:
0-200
201-500501-1,000
1,001-5,000
More than 5,000
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37.50%
16.67%
20.83%
8.33%
16.67%
Please indicate the number of supported users within
your organization:
0-1,000
1,001-5,0005,001-10,000
10,001-50,000
More than 50,000
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Questions?
Contact Jon Stotts
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