IT Managers to reduce IT carbon footprint

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The majority of IT managers are feeling pressure to reduce their carbon footprints, according to a survey commissioned by Zycko, a value-added distributor ofconvergent IT solutions. 61% feel pressure to cut down on their energy usage and 60% plan to reduce their carbon footprint within the next 18 months. Encouragingly, most (70%) already have some green measures in place such as remote working and video conferencing facilities to reduce the need for employees to travel.

The independent OmniBoss research, conducted by Vanson Bourne, provides a detailed overview of the green IT issues currently faced by medium to large UK businesses.

The survey found that:
• 60 % of UK businesses plan to reduce carbon footprint in the next 18 months
• 61% feel pressure to reduce carbon emissions
• 67% of IT managers do not know how much power their data centre draws
• Only 45% enforce shutting down computers at night

Check out this interesting article highlighting the interest in Green IT, as well as the adoption of ‘Green IT’ in terms of shutting down computers at night. The rising cost of energy is probably going to be a driver for adoption of green practices as much as those of corporate social responsibility. Recognizing the financial as well as the operational benefits of good systems configuration/green IT can improve service to the user experience, to your support costs, your energy and air conditioning costs.

By switching the pcs off overnight, you can reduce the power of the air conditioning, you should reduce the number of faults reported to the helpdesk – the computers should be less prone to memory leaks, explorer hanging, to one process going bad causing the desktop to freeze. End user experience improvements from an IT perspective might be just as important if not more so than saving money.

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