IBM Offers ‘Five Golden’ Rules For Green IT

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1. Companies are missing a trick by not realising how much energy is being used by dormant office equipment, says IBM’s Richard Lanyon-Hogg Many companies are blissfully unaware of the power consumption of background equipment and infrastructure within the office. So warns IBM which has published a whitepaper about the cost of wasted energy use by IT equipment. Indeed, IBM’s studies into this subject revealed that 42 percent of IT and office equipment energy consumption is wasted. And this is not a trival issue, as electricity is likely to be the second highest cost after labour, for any business. (Read Full Article)

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