Improving
sustainability and meeting"green"
policiesset out at a corporate level
is not a high priority for European IT departments in Europe,
according to a survey of 800 datacentre managers released
bySymantec.
Symantec's 'Green
Datacentre' report shows that datacentre managers are being driven
to adopt green policies to meet operational as opposed to
altruistic goals.
This includes
reducing costs via greater energy efficiency, the better use of
limited space whilst managing ever increasing amounts of data, and
improving cooling at a lower
cost.
However, even
though the survey shows that the majority of organisations have a
green policy in place (56%) and that most datacentre managers are
familiar with the concept of green datacentres (60%), only one in
seven has successfully implemented a green datacentre.
"Climate change
and sustainability was arguably one of the greatest public issues
of 2007, yet our survey shows a disconnection between corporate
plans to roll out green policies and what is actually happening
within the IT department," revealed Amanda Jobbins, vice-president
at Symantec.
"Considering that
IT accounts for a significant percentage of energy usage within an
organisation, and IT waste is considered to contribute at least a
third of overall electronic waste in the UK, the IT department
should be one of the first places that green polices are put into
practice within an organisation," said Jobbins.