Datacom achieves highest rating in green IT readiness index

Peter Dinham
Tuesday, 27 October 2009 14:40

IT Industry - Market

Australian IT professional services company, Datacom, has achieved the highest Green IT readiness rating yet achieved by any organisation in Australia in the RMIT University-Connection Research Green IT Readiness Index.

In a study conducted this month, Datacom achieved a rating of 72.9 out of 100, which the company said is “substantially higher than the Australian cross-industry average of 39.5.”

The rating system measures performance in five areas of Green IT - end user IT efficiencies, enterprise IT efficiencies, lifecycle (procurement and disposal), measurement, and enablement.

Datacom's general manager of Datacom Systems, Kassandra Singh, said today the highest scores were in lifecycle (80.0) and enablement (76.0) – “an important area that measures the usage of IT to lower the energy consumption and carbon footprint of the whole organisation.”

Singh said the high rating “vindicates Datacom’s efforts in green IT."

According to Singh, the company is “working very hard to ensure our processing and that of our customers is as environmentally friendly as possible.”

However, Singh also said that “the rating also shows that we can do better in some areas - and has highlighted a number of factors where we can improve. We are particularly interested in ensuring that we can get better energy consumption and efficiency metrics out of our data centres."

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