Over the last year Green IT has become one of the most important issues in the computer industry.
Now Connection Research has conducted a major survey of Australian IT departments and how they are confronting the Green IT challenge.
Green IT is about more than reducing the power consumption of IT. That is important, part IT has an even bigger role to play in ensuring the organisation as a whole reduces its carbon footprint. IT has a key role to play in measuring and monitoring carbon output, and in increasing the energy efficiency of many parts of the organisation.
Green IT in Australia 2009 is the largest study yet undertaken of how Australian IT departments are introducing Green IT technologies and practices – at the server and data centre level, at the end user level, and across the organisation, and how they are using IT to meet their carbon compliance obligations. It also looks at the tools and methodologies they are using, which vendors are important to them, and the attitudes of CIOs and It managers to a range of Green IT issues.
Research Topics
Measures of the environmental impact of IT
Measures of the power consumption of IT – PUE, DCiE, Others
Role responsibilities and reporting structures for Green IT initiatives
Importance of energy reduction in technology initiatives
Energy reduction strategies and technologies
Barriers to implementation
Usage and evaluation of Green IT software products and tools
Barriers to usage
IT waste reduction practices
Drivers for Green IT implementation
Importance of specific vendors in implementing Green IT
Importance of Green IT as a procurement factor
Attitudes towards climate change and carbon footprint reduction
Sources of information on Green IT
Usage of and interest in Green IT consultancy services
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