Source: Rackspace
April 2012, 6 pages   

Summary Review

Rackspace conducted a survey of 2,000 customers worldwide with 232 respondents, to better understand how organizations are building sustainability into their IT service provider selection and purchasing processes.    

Rackspace’s findings point to an increasingly established trend to embrace and include sustainability practices within the purchasing process. When it comes to influencing purchasing decisions, 72 percent of the U.S. respondents said they believe sustainability is important in selecting a service provider as well as influencing a purchasing decision. In the rest of the world, 91 percent, build sustainability into their purchasing decisions on either a periodic or standard basis. Countries outside the United States seem to put a greater emphasis on weighting sustainability as part of purchasing decisions. 

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