Atos Consulting Look Out | Green Technology

Concept

With the increased focus on the impact of human activity on global warming and physical resources, there is greater scrutiny of the role IT is playing. Green technology is essentially focused around reducing technology’s footprint. This means reducing energy usage and wastage, increasing recycling of redundant hardware as well as enabling collaboration so that the need for travel, particularly via airtransport, is reduced.

Trajectory

Virtualization technologies are making it possible to host many virtual machines on a single server, which in turn requires less hardware and energy usage than the equivalent physical machines. This therefore reduces the energy and physical footprint in data-centers.
Video collaboration / telepresence technologies will make collaboration and meetings so realistic that the need for travel will be reduced, leading to cost savings as well as a reduced energy impact.
After an initial outlay, enterprises stand to make significant cost savings as highlighted in the previous two points, and they may well benefit from any tax breaks provided by their respective government.
Companies that embrace green technology stand to get positive publicity in the media, gain new environmentally-conscious customers and increase or sustain market share.

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