Wow it has been a pretty hectic time since International Green IT Awareness Week!  Lots to catch up on and finalise post-event.  As you would have seen in oher posts and articles on this site, we had a great response to the week.  The Virtual Event that we hosted had over 300 people register across 37 different countries - an fantastic result for our first year but one that we absolutely wish to improve upon for next year - lets go even bigger and better!!!

Today I posted all of the Virtual Event videos to the social network here.

And here are PDFs of some of the presentations (unfortunately we didn't receive all presentations in print format) - right click on the URL and select "Save  Target As" (Internet Explorer) or "Save Link As" (Mozilla) - to download each presentation:

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There has been some interesting research released last week indicating that the Green IT Services market is likely to reach $5 billion by 2015.  The report said the growth "...in the market will be primarily driven by factors, such as, greater focus on data center optimization, widespread adoption of Green IT initiatives beyond data centers, and development of new green management software technologies, among others." 

And said the key players in this market (to the suprise of no-one) are: "...Accenture PLC, BT Global Services, Deloitte, Global Green Consulting Group, Inc., GreenIT, HCL Technologies, Ltd., Hewlett-Packard Company, HP Enterprise Services, International Business Machines Corporation, SustainableIT, Tata Consultancy Services, Computer Sciences Corporation, Dell, Inc., Getronics NV, Intel Corporation, Oracle, and Wipro Systems and Technology Division."

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We are proud to announce the book Greening.IT has been officially released.  This book has been a major collaboration between over 10 green IT specialists globally, including our CEO, Bianca Wirth.

Click to view more info on Greening.IT book

Well, its the last day of International Green IT Awareness Week and as the CEO fo ComputersOff.ORG, I can confidently proclaim it a success!  Since starting this initiative less than 5 months ago, we have made green IT awareness a part of the minds of thousands of individuals and organisations.  We have had such as positive response to this initiative - which is wonderful to see.

In addition to the usual Green IT week activities, ComputersOff.ORG hosted a 3-day 24 hour virtual event which had over 300 attendees register from across 35 countries!

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ACS & AIIA combine resources to forge industry leadership on ICT role in Environment & Sustainability

The Australian Computer Society (ACS) and the Australian Information Industry Association (AIIA) today released two significant studies into environmental sustainability and the role of the technology industry:

• The ACS Carbon and Computers in Australia Report – produced through Connection Research – provides definitive analysis of the Australian ICT industry’s energy consumption and carbon footprint.

• ICT for Eco-Sustainability: an assessment of the capability of the Australian ICT sector – was commissioned by AIIA through RMIT University. The paper analyses the capability of 133 Australian ICT firms to deliver ICT solutions that enhance environmental performance across 52 performance indicators.

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Tom Worthington, Senior Lecturer at School of Computer Science, ANU will be talking on "Innovating to lower costs and carbon emissions with ICT" at the Innovation ACT Seminar , 6pm, 3 June 2009 at the Finkel Lecture Theatre, John Curtin School of Medical Research, ANU campus, Canberra (Map). For catering purposes please RSVP to InnovationACT@gmail.com. This is a free event sponsored by the Australian National University and the University of Canberra:

Innovation ACT promotes the learning and understanding necessary for the development and commercialisation of a viable product. One area entrepreneurs can seek to commercialise are socially and environmentally sustainable business practices. An example of this are new methods, ideas and products which can reduce carbon emissions by the use of computers and telecommunications (ICT).

The generally accepted figure is that ICT contributes 2% of carbon emissions, but could achieve a 15% reduction in overall emissions by 2020. The ANU will be teaching Masters students how to do this from July 2009, in the course COMP7310: Green ICT Strategies Students can do the course from anywhere in the world, via the web.

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An organization may have thought well of effective Green IT initiatives, but efforts would go in vain if not acted on time.  We have a limited timeframe to implement any initiative so it is mandatory to take a conscious decision and prioritize green initiatives to get maximum green returns. The Green IT process facilitates this and ensures the relevant and quantifiable green metrics for the management dashboard.

The goal of Green IT process is to support the green objectives of an organization as defined. This is achieved with the perspective of how IT supports the relevant functional area. For example, if a green objective of an organization is to reduce the data center energy consumption then what server consolidation, virtualization and the power saving settings can IT provide to help reduce the energy use.

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Green IT

You may read the following blog, share your ideas here, and help make our planet a safer place for us and for the generations to come.

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One of the quick-wins to energy conservation is to reduce workstation energy consumption during non-business hours as these occupy a fair share of total energy consumption. We could reduce energy consumption of workstations with power management settings, hibernation etc but this too consumes power enough not to be overlooked. Therefore if the Organizations' line of business allows, efforts should be made to bring in the culture of switching off PCs before leaving the office.

What we cannot measure, we cannot manage! IT Energy consumption should be reported as part of the periodic status reports; these artifacts can drive sustainability improvements efficiently which could be a revelation.

Organization focuses mainly on SLAs around Reliability, Performance and Security. The propensity to include SLAs around power efficiency would inflict ‘Green’ into an organization’s working.

Let Green drive our services and solutions!