Green IT 'can save firms money'
20 Nov 2008
Firms looking at ways to save expenditure may make their IT infrastructures greener without realising it, one sector commentator has said.
According to Michael Dean, group marketing manager at the National Computing Centre (NCC), companies will undertake improved asset management in order to review what software and hardware is being paid for and who exactly is using it.
"It is highly likely that many organisations will be able to identify under-utilised assets and reduce their IT overheads. Whilst this isn't a green motive it will have a positive effect," he says.
The NCC is an advocate of the deployment of IT to maximise the competitiveness of businesses and serves the government, vendor and corporate sectors.
Indeed, the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs has undergone a green IT infrastructure upgrade - which is expected to become the template for all government departments - and among other measures, has consolidated its servers from 120 to 12 by virtualising the data centres.
And according to Kyocera Environmental Office Research 2008, 68 per cent of businesses have environmental measures in place, while 58 per cent of IT/technology firms are aiming to be carbon neutral.
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