Datacom achieves highest rating in green IT readiness index

Peter Dinham
Tuesday, 27 October 2009 13:40

IT Industry - Market

The Green IT Readiness Index was developed by Connection Research in conjunction with RMIT University in Melbourne, and relies on benchmarking respondents to an online survey on Green IT policies, techniques and technologies across the five key areas mentioned above.

The database now includes over 400 organisations in Australia and New Zealand, which Connection Research director, Graeme Philipson said allowed detailed comparisons of Green IT "readiness", or
maturity by industry or organisation size.

Philipson said “Datacom's performance is the highest we have seen from any organisation, in any industry. It is hard to achieve the sort of rating Datacom has achieved, because the bar is set very high. Most organisations talk about Green IT, but they do not properly define it and they do not set themselves goals. Datacom does."

Philipson said that Connection and RMIT are about to conduct their second annual Green IT survey across Australia, and that the data derived in the survey will allow a broad comparison between Green IT performance this year compared to last year.

"The earlier study found that there was a lot of talk about Green IT, but not a lot of action. This year we expect some improvement, but not a lot. Our benchmarking exercises through the year indicate that little has changed. Datacom remains an exception to the general rule."