Recent PostsOne of the issues that many organisations face in tough times is funding green intiatives. In reality, business cost reduction requirements and green initiatives are two sides of the same coin. Both yeild the same result. Irresepective, here are our top 10 tips for driving green initaitives in IT with limited investment.
Archive for February, 2009
Top 10 initiatives to get you on the road to greening your business
Thursday, February 26th, 2009Energy Efficiency by implementing IT
Sunday, February 22nd, 2009It always amazes us when we interface with large corporate organisations as to how misinformed many of them are. ICT is almost always left out in the cold when it comes to energy efficiency initiatives. This is really surprising if you believe some of the data based on research done by Gartner. For instance, IT energy consumption in Financial Services and Government accounts for between 40% and 60% of total energy consumption. A similar profile would be seen in the telecommunications sector where technology is pervasive as well as any other admin centric organistaion.
Commit to Earthhour
Friday, February 20th, 2009On 28 March 2009, South Africa will join the planet for the first time and commit to Earthhour. People and organisations will be encouranged to turn off their power for 1 hour in a stand against climate change.
Inefficiency breeds contempt
Monday, February 16th, 2009We are now rapidly entering an environment of financial woes, limited energy and most importantly, rapidly rising energy costs. The days of oversizing servers and leaving devices powered on in distributed computing environments is pretty much over. If you still have this mindset, revisit it, it is definitely not sustainable and will not stand you in good stead at your next business review.
Introduction
Monday, February 16th, 2009At sustainbleIT, we are constantly bombarded by people and organisations around how they can utilise ICT to reduce both their energy and CO2 emissions.
In an effort to elicit debate on this subject, we decided to blog it, hence saveenergy.co.za This blog is designed to provide information on innovative ways of delivering services in IT, provide help and advice on Green IT initiatives as well as an overall forum for people and organisations comitted to reducing energy and doing their bit for the environment.
