Greener digital world? Save IT energy costs and environment - conference keynote speaker

[Nkatsikanis]

I would love to work from home but companies frequently are afraid to allow you access to there servers from outsize there company premisses /or IP address.

Smashing video btw :)

[pjvdixon]

Thanks - yes it is astonishing how many CTOs and CIOs responsible for corporate IT security have been unwilling to invest in solutions to allow secure home working.

[Nkatsikanis]

They lose for this as people can be much more productive in a home environment.

[pjvdixon]

Yes - many times more efficient for most people to work at home on something like writing a long report.

[Nkatsikanis]

It would be good if there was some research into this. There must be formal stuff out there.

[Nkatsikanis]

Trust is the biggest issue with working from home. Most people think that people will not work a full 8 hour day from home and they can't really check on this.

[DeltaNC]

One of the most interesting aspects of IT in industry is that, it is often not performance increases which attract companies to upgrade, but the energy cost savings.

My brother recently consolidated all his employers servers across Europe to only two servers in Scotland, the savings more than paid for the new hardware anyway, so in reality they couldn't afford not to upgrade!

Virtulisation is very much the future! Even for the consumer!

[pjvdixon]

I agree that the priority is often saving IT costs especially since 70% of large IT projects deliver late or signficantly over budget. Thanks for the interesting virtual server cost saving example. Patrick