The public sector is embracing green IT, with policies in place or planned in 67% of organisations, according to a survey released today by Citrix Systems.
Its research found that virtualisation, flexible working and providing services for staff and citizens are also high on government organisations’ IT agendas.
Although 20% of respondents said that they did not have a green IT policy, Steve Ash, government sales manager at Citrix UK, says he’s encouraged by the results.
“Just a couple of years ago, green IT barely made the agenda at all. As such, it’s very good to see that more than two thirds of public sector organisations already have a policy in place. This is positive news for our energy consumption, and for the environment more generally.”
Other top findings: maintaining security remains top of the IT agenda, according to 59% of respondents; and virtualisation comes in second with 51%. Languishing near the bottom of the table are: updating applications and moving to Microsoft Vista at 13%; worrying about compliance, 10%; implementing shared services, also 10%; and becoming carbon neutral, 5%.
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