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Pete Jakob IT discussions in business media always seem to cover the same topics: mid-tier businesses and tech; IT investment (too much? too little?); data storage (and the environment); information security; and whether good tech people can be good managers. more...
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Go greener
Silicon.com highlights a Gartner report that calls the IT industry “unsustainable” due to rising energy costs.

This is just one of a string of recent stories about the cost – both financial and environmental – of IT, from leaving PCs on standby overnight in businesses (no surprise that the UK tops the list of worst energy wasters in Europe, then) to data storage.

As the Silicon.com story points out: “Environmental pressure will force organisations to act, with data centres wasting almost two-thirds of the energy they use to cool equipment, and three-quarters of the 512 million PCs that will be disposed of in the next five years ending up in landfill sites rather than being recycled.”

It makes you wonder if pen and paper are due for a comeback...



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