Green IT delivers cost savings: report

Stephen Withers
Thursday, 09 April 2009 06:09

Business IT - Technology

We already knew that the motivation behind 'Green IT' implementation is more likely to involve saving money rather than saving the planet. But new research shows that going green really does cut costs.

Vendors have been pushing the Green IT message for a couple of years. You can't really blame them, given their customers' reluctance to spend when times get tight.

But it can be a fairly convincing story if you can show that replacing a bunch of servers with a few more powerful systems can save so much electricity that the payback period is attractively short.

Indeed, analyst firm Forrester found that the motivation behind two-thirds of Green IT initiatives was to reduce energy costs.

But does Green IT deliver on its money-saving promise? According to new research performed for Fujitsu, the answer is yes.

The research, published in a paper entitled Green IT: A Convenient Truth, found that 95 percent of Australian organisations with a Green IT policy say they saved money and are more efficient as a direct result of that policy.

Perhaps the 60 percent of organisations that don't have a Green IT policy should join the bandwagon?

Please read on to find out what's stopping them.