Irwin Mitchell, a UK law firm with more than 2,500 employees, expects to save a total of £65,000 a year by driving down power consumption in its IT department.
The Buckinghamshire County Council ICT Schools Service and the Colchester Institute college are reducing their power and toner use with a new print system to cut their costs.
The question:
I am a newly appointed IT director, and my new company makes much of its good record on corporate social responsibility, one aspect of which is the reduction in its carbon footprint. Should I be proactive on the issue of green IT, and if so, how? I want to keep green IT in a proper business perspective, and not overemphasise it. I'm not convinced it is a strategic opportunity for senior IT professionals.
Co-operative Financial Services (CFS) has signed a £12m deal with Xerox to improve customer service and reduce its environmental impact through a new mail distribution system.
Datacentre managers face a growing dilemma as businesses put pressure on them to deliver more computing power while also asking them to reduce rising IT energy costs, the British Computer Society has said.