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Green IT Continues to be Focus Area for Cos|
- By CXOtoday Staff, Apr 20, 2009 1616 hrs IST
- Tags : recession, green IT programmes, Gartner survey, green IT projects, Simon Mingay, Rakesh Kumar
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At a time when recession is resulting in cutbacks across all projects, including green IT programmes, a Gartner survey indicates that most organisations will maintain the priority of green IT projects.
The Gartner survey, conducted in December 2008, covered 620 respondents who were asked a series of questions about the development of their organisation and IT environment programmes and also the impact of the recession on green IT initiatives.
The survey revealed that while a significant number of organisations, particularly in the US and Brazil, anticipated reducing the priority of green IT projects in 2009, in most cases, particularly in Europe and Asia/Pacific, the recession will not change or will increase the priority of green IT projects. However, there is still some education required in Asia/Pacific related to the financial benefits of many green IT projects.
Another significant finding was that 46 per cent of the of respondents in Europe, 38 percent in Asia/Pacific and 36 percent in the US anticipated spending more than 15 percent of their IT capital budgets on green IT projects.
Only 60 organisations (10 percent of respondents) had no green IT projects at the time of the survey.
Simon Mingay, research vice president at Gartner, said, "Despite the apparent strength of green IT projects highlighted by the survey, for most organisations not looking to exploit the opportunities of climate change strategically, 2009 will be a gap year for green projects lacking a short-term cost-cutting and efficiency focus. Longer term, we believe environmental sustainability will remain an important business issue."
"The broad area of green IT covering areas such as, carbon reporting and offsetting, videoconferencing and green procurement will continue to be a key pillar of IT strategy and architecture during the next 10 years," said Rakesh Kumar, research vice president at Gartner. "This is because the political and scientific imperatives around the climate change will continue to push governments, international bodies and organisations as stakeholders increase the pressure to focus on environmental sustainability."
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