No one cares about green IT
3 Apr 2008 | 17:16 BST
Greenwashing dirty IT laundry in public
IT'S JUST AS we suspected. UK IT managers couldn’t give a reboot about green IT.
Only one in 20 of them even bother to ask their IT suppliers anything green related. The vast majority don’t care with 87 per cent of those without a green policy saying they’d adopt one if they had to. The kind of pressure that would make them green is regulation, which comes out tops for 69 per cent, 29 per cent would listen to their customers, 14 per cent say they’d listen to suppliers (why?). And the good old stand up and be counted three per cent said “nothing would spur them to implement a green policy.” Well done, lads. That’s the spirit!
Just 14 per cent of people see IT as the biggest contributor of CO2 in their organisation and half say this is definitely not the case. Quite right too! It is all those kettles, and sandwich toasters that are doing the damage not to mention the MD‘s trouser press.
That must be why the vast majority list their green policy as recycling cans and paper, recycling hardware (they have to, it's the law) and using energy saving light bulbs.
Ask them what green policies they’ve adopted and just 13 per cent of them say it includes virtualisation, 11 per cent include swapping U1 servers for blades and the same number are considering video communications.
Of those who have implemented a green policy, 12 per cent reckon they’ve saved some energy.
Most agree that so kind of green policy would save energy eventually, which is nice to know.
Distributor Bell Micro paid for the research among 350 IT personnel, 100 with over 250 staff, in January this year and produced a report: Passing the Green IT Buck, off the back of it.
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