Recent PostsGreen ICT remains immature in South Africa and the lack of company adoption will contribute to South Africa’s failure to meet its commitments at Copenhagen, namely a 34% emission reduction below business as usual by 2020 and 42% by 2025.
Business remains apathetic to embracing green business and ICT organisations are stuck in an antiquated mind-set [...]
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South Africa ranks low on Green ICT Maturity
Tuesday, August 31st, 2010Wake on lan, yes you can!
Tuesday, June 8th, 2010In the majority of secure networks, UDP broadcasting is rightly disabled as it is a huge security risk and opens up threats around denial of service attacks. THIS HOWEVER DOES NOT MEAN THAT YOU CANNOT GET WAKE ON LAN TO WORK, YOU JUST NEED THE RIGHT TOOLS.
CIO’s – Ignore sustainable computing at your own risk
Friday, April 30th, 2010Delivering an efficient IT service is paramount in ensuring sustainability and as governance structures and accountability filters down, CIO’s need to ensure that the correct strategies are in place to fulfil risk and compliance requirements.
Energy waste in IT costs in excess of R20 per pc per month
Friday, October 16th, 2009PC power management technologies conservatively provide savings of around 40% which would result in a R20 saving per PC per month come 1 April 2010. In an organisation running 10 000 workstations, the cost of not running a PC power management solution is R200 000 per month.
Ten reasons to adopt a green IT strategy
Sunday, August 23rd, 2009Our top 10 reasons why business should act within South Africa are spelled out below. Although South African specific, most are appropriate in any economy and all can be positively impacted by adopting a green IT strategy.
Who said going green was easy?
Tuesday, July 14th, 2009…going green requires systemic change in a business and is not as easy as switching the lights off or migrating to energy efficient technology. Without a holistic strategic business focus around sustainability initiatives, organisations are doomed to failure and maximum business benefits and minimizing environmental impacts will not be realised.
