While spiralling global energy prices will continue to drive many ‘green IT’ initiatives and policies, a genuine desire to tackle global warming among businesses of all sizes is proving just as important, says Symantec vice president of Global Solutions Jose Iglesias.
Speaking from Brisbane today, Iglesias told m-net there are three key reasons businesses around the world are eager to adopt green IT initiatives: “In no particular order of priority those drivers are cost, legislation and social consciousness,” he says.
Cost is obviously important with energy prices in some parts of the world rising dramatically over the past year or two and likely to continue rising in the foreseeable future,” he says.
This alone makes green IT initiatives as compelling for small businesses as enterprises, he says. “The cost to implement green initiatives is less, but the relative savings are the same. The return on investment is still there, the numbers are proportional.”
Check out this interesting article which is talking about the green issue in IT. Switching off the pc’s at work doesn’t just save power directly, it’s the indirect or hidden costs that can be just as significant. That the pcs are ‘rebooted’ every night should reduce the number of issues in terms of desktops freezing or security patch installation failing, fewer pcs running means I can turn down the air conditioning, which can be significant amounts of money to your business.
