How "Bring Your Own Device" Is Greening The Enterprise

news.thomasnet.com (Jan 10 2012)

1. While many companies are implementing – or trying to meet – corporate sustainability plans, either to be good environmental stewards or just to save cash (or both), they’ve found a number of significant roadblocks in their way. Switching to greener sources of energy, for instance, can be expensive. Changing manufacturing processes requires significant upfront capital. Running a green data center yourself often means picking up roots and moving a data center to another part of the country or the world. But there’s one area where companies seeking to keep the energy use down have been surprised, as their employees have happily completed the process for them. The trend away from desktop computers toward more portable devices isn’t new: employees are more mobile today and don’t want to be tethered to a desktop. But increasingly, employees are using their own devices for dual-purpose: personal use and business use. It ... (Read Full Article)

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