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 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Energy Saving’
South Africa ranks low on Green ICT Maturity
Tuesday, August 31st, 2010The bottom line: Power Management software saves plenty
Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010PCs and peripherals consume more energy than any other information and communications technology group and by 2012, more than 50% of midsize and large organizations will centrally manage desktop power states, up from less than 10% today.
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.
Wake up: The role of the IT in the low carbon economy
Sunday, May 31st, 2009If we accept that we are entering a paradigm shift, and that technology is going to be a key enabler moving forward, then the IT department and the role of IT is going to become more and more important. IT is going to be the change agent to drive efficiencies in organisations. IT will enable companies to measure where they are and build plans to make improvements. IT will be the means whereby companies will become ‘smart’. ‘Smart’ in respect of all aspects of the business from, logistics to facilities management, manufacturing processes to full dematrialisation of carbon intensive business processes.
Having green ideals means taking action - not an excuse for inaction
Saturday, May 2nd, 2009As an organisation dedicated to promoting sustainable computing and educating our customers on the same, we have recently taken a strategic decision to move towards carbon neutrality. This may seem like an obvious reponse but what does this mean in reality? Are we really going to make changes in our business and daily lives or is this yet another company, looking for marketing and spewing green wash into the industry?
System Standby vs PC Shutdown – Every watt counts
Monday, April 13th, 20095 watts in standby actually equates to 43.8 kWh per annum. Not too startling in itself, however what does that cost us? In South Africa, at current average rates you will pay around R22 per annum per machine for that inefficiency. Multiply this by 1000’s and the numbers start to add up. Now add the impending increases and you are looking at closer to R30 per machine.
