Sustainability at the Edge

For many enterprises, IT deployments are in flux. Traditionally, data and workloads were stored in centralized enterprise datacenters, with some smaller deployments in regional facilities. Now, companies have data and workloads outside of core enterprise datacenters, in centralized public cloud sites, leased datacenters and at edge locations. This is often due to the amount of data being created in edge locations that requires local storage or compute, such as for latency reasons, or when customers or employees need access to data nearby and using a central datacenter or public cloud region would add latency and impact performance.

To answer these questions and develop a maturity curve regarding sustainability for enterprises' IT infrastructure, Schneider Electric commissioned 451 Research/S&P Global Market Intelligence to conduct a study on enterprise sustainability and distributed IT and edge datacenters. We surveyed IT decision-makers from more than 1,150 enterprises based in China, France, Germany, India, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, the UK and the US These organizations included medium-sized and large enterprises and represented more than 20 verticals including retail, healthcare, IT, education, financial services and industrial manufacturing. Respondents were required to have knowledge of enterprise sustainability programs, as well as distributed IT and datacenter resources.