Although many companies in the UK have adopted green policies regarding power consumption, they do not have a means of measuring their progress, according to a new survey released.
Extreme Networks, which commissioned the survey, is reporting that 64 percent of organizations in Britain have implemented “Green IT” strategies, but that only 20 percent have found a means for measuring energy expenditure related to IT.
The network solutions company carried out the survey with its partner Data Integration. They were not able to offer an explanation for the companies’ lack of ability to measure progress except to point out that the method for calculating carbon emissions is quite new and the technology isn’t widely available at this time.
Extreme Networks’ regional director for the UK and Ireland, Paul Phillips, said: “We are only at the start of the green journey, over time IT Directors will all be measured on the amount of power consumed by - at the very least - their area of the business.”
Philips went on to say: “Currently this landscape is still evolving. All of the recent tenders that we are responding to ask about power consumption of the products being proposed. Depending on the equipments location -for example a hosted data centre- this is critical as there is a power budget allocated and once this has been used, then it’s used. Even if hosted on site getting enough clean power to a comms room is becoming a challenge.”
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