Green IT Having Marginal Impact - 04-Aug-08
Organisations in the UK employing green IT policies are making small savings, according to parts distributor Bell Micro. However, the level of energy savings achieved casts doubts upon the current value of those green activities implemented to date.
The results have been extracted from some research commissioned earler this year. Headline findings include:
* Despite the fact that much has been talked about green IT in the UK, only 21% of organisations have adopted a formal, written policy on what the IT department should be doing to make the organisation more environmentally-friendly.
* Many energy saving measures are adopted by fewer than 1 in 4 organisations with a green IT policy, e.g. using energy-saving hardware and software (25%), use of virtualisation technology (13%) and implementation of digital video communications (11%)
* Outsourcing key IT functions and processes is a very common practice in the UK. Of 73% of organisations handling all or some of their IT tasks in this way, only 27% bother to check the green credentials of their suppliers.
The full executive summary can be found at the weblink below.
Bell Micro "Going Green" Report
Source: NFP Techno
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