One of the things holding green IT investments back is the fact that the cost can be easily measured but the benefits can’t.
A CFO can see exactly how much technology costs but it is difficult for them to consider the savings or productivity benefits that result from the investment. This is because the full picture [...]

Organisations run on projects.  Whether they are delivering new products, implementing new IT systems, recruiting new staff or opening new branches, projects and programmes of all sizes are the mechanism by which ‘stuff gets done’.
Whilst there are always horror stories of projects which have been delivered late or gone over budget, increasingly there are huge [...]

At a recent round-table of mid-tier IT bosses (organised ostensibly to discuss customers’ IT infrastructure challenges), the issue that most animated delegates was not the nebulous nature of cloud computing or the virtues of virtualisation, but the tutting, sucking-teeth topic of supplier-customer relations. Blogging over at the 360 IT Blog, Computer Weekly editor-in-chief Bryan Glick, [...]

I wrote an article recently in silicon.com mentioning Steria in the context of how the UK government is likely to explore further offshoring once the election is complete.
Now the leader debates are underway and we are about to get a real taste of what the leaders say about the future of the public sector in [...]

Every time I write an article about cloud computing I always think it has landed at the right time. Just as green issues hit the top of the corporate and government agendas we have this new way of delivering technology that gives us better services, lowers costs and actually creates much less carbon.
I have been on [...]

Governments are determined to look green, at least on paper, and it is only a matter of time before datacentres get stung by the taxman.
In recognition that datacentres being massive users of power, governments might tax them in relation to the amount of power they use. Datacentres probably already account for about 5% of global [...]

IT ecosystems exist today rather than IT infrastructures. The components of these ecosystems are all reliant on power so controlling energy consumption is a challenge.
These ecosystems are extremely complicated and difficult to understand. For example a big bank might have a 40-year-old computer chugging away in the underworld. Nobody knows how much power it and [...]

Many IT suppliers and CIOs point out green initiatives can also be good for business performance. The problem they often have is in quantifying and demonstrating this. With some investments, the return is clear - and quick. For example, power management technologies such as smart-switching products that prevent idle machines being left on standby, needlessly [...]

This year’s NASSCOM was noticeably more exciting than previous years - there was without a doubt, a much bigger buzz, taking us away from the heady double digit growth days to a more reflective, but nonetheless optimistic view of business models of the future.
This year focused more on re-defining the industry, looking at non-linear growth [...]

I spoke with Ganesh Natarajan, CEO of Zensar during the NASSCOM conference recently in Mumbai. It was a fascinating exploration of how one Indian tech firm is recovering from the global economic slowdown. He even claimed it’s been a positive learning experience for his company. Ganesh is the immediate past chairman of NASSCOM, so as [...]