+27 87 073 6525 info@sustainableit.com

The Role of the CIO in sustainability

Tim James, Managing Director of sustainableIT talks around the role of the CIO and sustainability on Tech@Work on CNBC Africa.  Topics covered include PC power management, carbon emissions management as well as carbon taxation and and the role of technology in curbing...
Licensed to kill

Licensed to kill

Research has shown that between 20-40% of applications installed by companies are not used. In the United States alone, they believe that this accounts for $12.3bn in preventable and ongoing costs. This easily happens when licences are allocated to users based on...

IT waste costs billions

Whenever I speak to chief information officers or technologists about sustainable IT strategies, their eyes glaze over. In most people’s minds, going green is still about environmental activism, tree-hugging and warm fuzzy feelings rather than as a strategy that adds...
Licensed to kill

On the spot: First things first

Many companies are looking at green IT initiatives, but where do you start? Green IT is taking off as energy supply shrinks, and costs increase. Where to start with a green IT initiative, though? Brainstorm asked the experts. PC power management solutions (PCPM) are...

After COP 17, Where Now for Green IT?

If you were present in South Africa towards the back end of November and early December 2011, you would have heard about COP 17.  If you didn’t you were clearly marooned in a part of the country without access to any contact or form of media interaction. COP 17 was...