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 [...]

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 [...]

As traditional working patterns change, a shift away from the traditional, 9-5 structure of office-based collaboration will be key to a more environmental-friendly way of running business.
However, remote working and ‘being green’ often seem to be in the same space of nice-to-have good stuff that is impossible to ask from a business trying to cut [...]

Following on my musings about remote working from another post, I thought it would be worth talking about unified communications (UC) as a model that can support the environmental efficiency at the enterprise.
I recently moderated a debate around the approach, which sought to discuss the advantages of UC, which is not a single technology, but [...]

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 [...]

I was reading about the large turn out at this year’s Nasscom conference last February in India, some 1600 delegates from across the world, and couldn’t help wondering how many flights were taken to the event and how much carbon was created as a result.
My inbox is evidence enough for me to understand that to [...]

Back in the mid-90s, when the Net was just catching on in business, one of its biggest touted benefits was the ability for staff to work remotely. Pundits variously saw opportunities for companies to save money on fixed office costs, boost the morale of employees and foster the wider environmental benefit of reduced commuting.
To bring [...]

If organisations are serious about moving beyond ‘greenwash’ and putting sustainability at the heart of everything they do, then they need a way to measure how well they’re doing. Customers and partners will increasingly demand clear metrics to make informed choices about which organisations they do business with, based on their own environmental (and social [...]