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IT is going green 
IT departments are at the forefront of the corporate response to more sustainable operations. More than most other functions, IT has risen to the challenge of finding ways to reduce energy consumption and the carbon footprint by the use of innovative technologies and business practices.
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Green IT opportunities
Green IT is a term increasingly being used to describe the reduction or minimisation of power in the data centre or at the end user level—low power screens, virtualisation, thin clients and the like. It also incorporates the many opportunities for the IT department to help make significant reductions in the carbon footprint of the organisation by acting as an enabler for a vast range of energy reduction practices.
Green IT and Sustainability Report
In December 2008 Connection Research conducted a major primary research project, surveying a large sample of over 250 CIOs and IT managers from a broad spectrum of Australia’s ICT-using organisations. The results of this groundbreaking study are now available to Australian users, vendors and consultancies to help them develop their Green IT strategies. The results form the most comprehensive overview available of the state of play of Green IT in Australia in 2009.
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Key findings from the report
1. Australia’s IT managers and CIOs are very green. They are concerned about climate change, and they see IT as being a key driver on reducing their organisation’s carbon footprint. But they are not doing very much about it.
2. Only half of them have measured the environmental impact of IT, and most of these have only just started doing it and do not have mature systems in place. Fewer than 10% have set targets for the future. Only one quarter have measured IT’s power consumption.
3. There is some awareness, but for most organisations it is still early days. Fewer than half of organisations have appointed someone specifically responsible for Green IT. This person is rarely the CIO or IT manager, and even usually reports to someone other than the CIO or IT manager. Another quarter of organisations are considering appointing such a person.
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Click here to read more about our Green IT report
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The Connection Research Green IT Pentagram
Green IT is about much more than reducing or minimising power consumption in the data centre. A comprehensive approach to Green IT addresses five key areas:
• End User Energy Reduction
• Data Centre Energy Reduction
• Procurement & Lifecycle
• Measuring & Monitoring
• Enabling the Business
For further information, please contact William Ehmcke:
+61 2 9467 9822 / +61 411 861 445
williame@connectionresearch.com.au
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For more information about our Green
IT and Sustainability Report, please
contact Graeme Philipson:
+61 2 9467 9811 / +61 418 609 397
graemep@connectionresearch.com.au
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