Adopting Green ICT in Business

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Author(s): Subramanian Chitra (Independent Scholar, Australia)
Copyright: 2011
Pages: 9
Source title: Handbook of Research on Green ICT: Technology, Business and Social Perspectives
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): B. Unhelkar (University of Western Sydney, Australia)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-61692-834-6.ch047

Keywords: Engineering Science Reference / Environment & Agriculture / Environmental Science and Technologies / Environmental Technologies

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Information Communication Technology (ICT) is playing an increasingly important role in professional and private lives worldwide and is thus also increasingly becoming a significant energy consumer and CO2 emitter. Green IT benefits the environment by improving energy efficiency, lowering greenhouse gas emissions, using less harmful materials, and encouraging reuse and recycling. The explosion of information and communication technology (ICT), including personal computers, servers and data centers, handheld and telephonic devices, and printers, over the past few decades has led to a particular focus on ICT’s environmental impact. Green computing refers to the practice of using computing resources more efficiently while maintaining or increasing overall performance. IT services require the integration of green computing practices such as power management, virtualization, improving cooling technology, recycling, electronic waste disposal, and optimization of the IT infrastructure to meet sustainability requirements.

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