Making Green IT work for your business

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Has your firm incorporated a Green IT agenda into their business strategy? Today, Green IT is being driven by business strategy and a sense of corporate responsibility to the environment. So it is important for CIOs to keep this in mind when planning.

Some firms are already taking steps by:
• Establishing a company wide Green plan
• Establishing a ROI calculation and business case for going green
• Video conference and web meetings replacing travel when appropriate
• Engage a recycling company to dispose of its e-was

Check out this post which talks about Green IT, it’s always great to see what people are writing in the Green IT space, the more we discuss and debate the issues, the more we can develop a Green IT solution that works for my business. Do check it out.

Considering the Green IT message within the support message, can not only benefit the organization in terms of corporate social responsibility but implementing configurations, or refreshing hardware can reduce the overall support cost – the pc that’s powered down overnight shouldn’t have the overheads of those that are left on for months at a time in terms of patching and performance. Refreshing the hardware to newer more energy efficient pcs might not only reduce our energy costs, but might also reduce our exposures to warranty claims and support issues. How you deploy Green IT within your business, whether it’s desktop virtualization, more efficient printing or switching off the pc’s will depend on your IT, your business, but consider making small changes can be just as effective as the big ones, it’s often easier to move forward at a few steps than transform everything overnight.

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