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From Lauraibm

Full story: Being Green, who really cares about it? (19-Sep-07)

Being green, who really cares about it? The majority of large vendors seem keen to support, or at least publicise the concept of being green, and according to the results from a recent survey from Ipsos Insight this is a good idea as green factors are now emerging as a critical-mass consumer consideration.

A Sun Microsystems study found that since the first quarter of 2006 more than 75% of executives involved in buying decisions for data centre equipment prioritised energy efficiency. One of the key components to green IT is server consolidation and this is an area where enterprises seem to be making progress, a further way to reduce energy consumption is through streamlining applications and data to avoid duplication.