Recent PostsThe IT industry appears to be at odds with itself. On the one hand, it is embracing commercial opportunities to develop green technology and IT enablers that help to cut down carbon emissions to meet both corporate and country commitments. On the other hand, it has not yet pushed hard enough to ensure that green [...]
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The Strategic Imperatives of Green IT
Thursday, April 14th, 2011Beware the cloud
Friday, October 8th, 2010As our collective demand for computing resources increases, even the most efficiently built data centres with the highest utilisation rates serve only to mitigate, rather than eliminate, harmful emissions. However, running a highly efficient datacentre with as much waste eliminated as possible is what every organisation should be striving for.
South Africa ranks low on Green ICT Maturity
Tuesday, August 31st, 2010Green 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 [...]
Wake 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.
