Useful IT statistics

Reliabiltiy
According to Gartner, “Through 2015, 
80% of mission critical outages will be caused by people and process issues, and
more than 50% of those outages are caused by change/configuration/release integration and handoff issues.
Source: Mark Settle, Data Centre User Guide 2011, Computer Weekly HK

Low End Servers Usage
In 2008, not surprisingly, entry-level servers — those that cost less than $25,000 — processed about 65% of the world’s information, while midrange servers processed 30%, and high-end servers costing $500,000 or more processed just 5%, according to the 36-page report.
Source: Mark Settle, Data Centre User Guide 2011, Computer Weekly HK