Alltagstaugliche Strategien für Green IT

We also have a special site for arranging EcoEvents, giving planners all the information and resources they need to set up green meetings and events at our properties. These are not exactly IT projects, and they do not have the usual performance metrics or financial goals, but IT can significantly enhance them to the benefit of the company and the environment. When IT is truly part of a company’s sustainability strategy, the CIO’s vision will span beyond the IT function.

With economic conditions continuing to change, CIOs and their staff must focus more than ever on the value they bring to the business directly or indirectly, everything we are doing has to support the objectives of the company. But while our 2010 objectives at the Hudson Highland Group are primarily focused on managing costs, that goal can fall in line with projects that will contribute to environmental sustainability.

One of our top initiatives for the coming year is virtualization of our servers and desktops, and our technology road map is definitely pointed in the direction of keeping less of our technology infrastructure on traditional, energy-hungry ground. Another new initiative we are exploring, and that will likely have a big impact on all goals in 2010, is cloud computing. We are working closely with Goog to move as much as possible to their solutions, and we are examining this offering from the perspective of gaining efficiencies in business processes and in IT maintenance and costs across e-mail and our application environment. That it is a more-sustainable solution will make a difference more in the long term than against current goals.

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