Most "green" initiatives reflect the corporate environmental policy, legislative mandates and the cost savings associated with reduced electrical consumption. Green IT initiatives, from an asset management perspective, tend to influence the procurement of selected hardware components that are labeled as operationally energy efficient and/or were manufactured with materials and processes that had minimized the [...]
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Scientists dealt a blow to their climate change crusade with a lack of rigour in designing proof for their hypothesis. The controversy was similar I thought to the wide credibility gaps that exist between ICT as an industry and its claims of ROI or benefit to its purchasers. This is especially apparent in the attitude [...] IBM software sales people are incentivised on quarterly targets – reach them and get paid, fail and well, the pressure is on. The way an IBM sales person sells their software and reaches their targets is to concentrate on 'cluster' accounts that buy IBM mainframe time and processing power to run their business, when these [...] The CRC requirements may prove a damp squib regarding a compelling event for investment in ICT energy efficiency but the deals available for funding of capital expenditure to small and medium sized businesses are compelling as well as tax incentives. The Energy Efficiency Scheme [...] |
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