With IT responsible for as much carbon emissions as the aviation industry, according to Gartner, more energy efficient or ‘green’ IT has risen up the corporate agenda.

A recent survey found that.....

• 72% of IT managers said they had plans to implement "green technology" initiatives to reduce carbon emissions over the next few years.

• Also of the 100 UK IT managers polled, the majority said they were planning hardware-based projects in the near future that focused on virtualisation to consolidate servers and so, save energy in data centres.

• Research has also found that, of those firms that had already implemented green initiatives, 83% recycled IT equipment and 69% turned off printers and computers at night, while 36% also used virtualisation in the office.

• But the survey findings proved that there is more scope for green IT projects focused outside of the data centre, where 71% of IT professionals asked thought turning off printers and computers at night was their most energy efficient option.

• 80% of the survey’s respondents in the UK had already factored energy efficient software in IT budgets and 70% said they considered software to be very important to their ability to promote energy efficiency.

• But it's US organisations that were more likely to budget for software for the virtualisation and consolidation of servers, storage and data centres than their UK counterparts who were more likely to budget for software to implement PC and server power management.

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