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The Green IT Perspective
By Matthew Wheeland
While my colleague Preston Gralla takes a much-deserved vacation, I'm happy to give you the run-down on what's happening in the world of green IT this week.
The latest news is that Symantec has just published its first annual State of Green IT report, following up on its State of the Data Center report from earlier this year. I spoke with the company's VP of global solutions about the findings, and you can read about them in "Green IT Gaining In Importance Globally."
The findings offer hope -- most notably that 83 percent of the respondents, drawn from large companies around the globe, say that the IT department is now somewhat or wholly responsible for the electricity bill, long one of the huge obstacles to widespread adoption of green IT.
But at the same time, some of the findings are more of the same overly optimistic statistics: 41 percent of the executives surveyed said they'd be willing to pay 20 percent more money for energy efficient gear, which to my ears sounds a lot like the regular surveys of shoppers who say they'd pay extra for a green product, while those same products sit unsold on shop shelves.
Beyond the Symantec report, be sure to check out Preston's post on the new Energy Star for Servers certification, which was released at the end of last week. His take on the label? Not nearly good enough.
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