Green IT

A profound economic change is gathering pace and companies awareness of IT’s environmental impact is gaining traction, much published research corroborates this.

Empirical experience is now debunking many myths, prime amongst which:

Myth: New technologies will dramatically reduce IT's energy and carbon footprint.
Reality: There is no "magic bullet" technology. Business processes and employee behavior are just as important.

To do it, you must:

Create an Action Plan that lays out an incremental approach to implementing green IT.
Engage employees, change processes, and offer incentives.

But some simple actions can begin the process...

Company planning for Green IT

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Green IT hasn’t typically been associated with cost savings but this is no longer the case reducing power requirements through server virtualisation or consolidation projects has become a top priority green initiative.

Many top analyst firms are predicting some fairly drastic rises in energy costs, organisations which currently spend 4-8% of their IT budgets on energy may find their costs rising as much as fourfold within the next five years. In the current economic climate, reducing these costs is imperative.

Blue Saffron offers its customers

Virtualisation and consolidation services, which can help to significantly boost server utilisation, reducing wasted resources. In using less space, we use less power. See BlueSaffron IT Resource Management™
We have a wide choice of data centres using the latest hardware and cooling systems, which are the most environmentally efficient. We even offer a choice of data centres powered by renewable energy. With You can be confident that Blue Saffron have stepped up to the environmental challenge, whilst focusing squarely on cutting costs and increasing efficiency. See Blue Saffron Hosting™