From the BBC:
A majority of public sector employees do not know about environmentally friendly IT targets set out in government's Greening ICT Strategy.
The strategy calls for government IT to be carbon neutral by 2012, with office carbon emissions down 11.5% by 2011. One of the commissioners of the report says there are scattered trends toward compliance with the strategy. However, a survey of IT managers in the public sector showed 60% did not know there were any targets to aim for.
The report, titled "The Path to Green Government", was produced by environmental charity Global Action Plan and commissioned by networking giant Cisco.
"charity"?
The rest of the (inevitably gruesome) story is over at Captain FF.
And why Cisco would be commissioning a report like this is anybody's guess. I would assume that they are trying to influence government policy and flog them a bit more equipment.
Saturday 4 July 2009
Good work!
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Oh quite probably. "Green IT" is the sort of thing that big gravy train suppliers like. It's a "value added feature" where you can throw in a lot of things that more regular off-the-shelf suppliers don't provide, make a fortune on specialist support and allows less new entrants into supplying government.
To be fair there is something in this. New equipment is more energy effecient than older equipment and operators of large systems, especially those that use data centres or need their equipment in air conditioned environements are putting suppliers under pressure to reduce their enery and data centre opex costs.
The reason for this isn't AGW* or any other nod to the green gods, but becuase data centre owners have started to charge by energy consumed, not least in running air conditioning. This even goes for running your own data centres, the electricy costs of running air conditioning forms a significant part of life time costs.
Its always worth doing a CBA if you are running older equipment.
* But this makes for a good bit of corporate PR and and CSR in annual reports.
Has anyone actualy seen any of these carbon offset forests ?
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