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Green IT is more talked about than acted on in the UK, according
to a recent survey.
Only one in five UK organisations have a green IT policy
- and just one in eight can show any quantifiable energy savings
resulting from green IT.
The problem isn’t for want of energy-efficient products,
nor grass-roots support for green IT measures, said Bell
Micro, the IT distributor that commissioned the study.
Rather, management isn’t leading on the issue and too few
organisations are using the tools available to measure energy
consumption.
Of the 20 per cent of respondents who have made the first
step and established a green IT policy, 60 per cent haven’t
fully implemented it and 15 per cent haven’t even started
implementation.
Responses to the survey show that few organisations understand
how much energy IT consumes, the technologies that are available
to them to reduce consumption or the tools available to quantify
energy savings.
When asked about their green IT strategy, the majority of
respondents (87 per cent) cited recycling paper and cans.
Few respondents to the survey showed an appreciation of,
for example, the energy and cost-efficiencies available from
virtualisation technologies. None seemed aware of tools to
perform energy or thermal audits.
"Bell Micro will be using the results of the survey
to help their resellers promote green IT to businesses"
- said Anthony Young, director of Bell Micro’s services, security
and networking division.
“We don’t consider ourselves as green experts” - said Young.
“We will help the [resellers] make use of the tools that are
available and share this research with them.”
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