It's no surprise that the Europeans are a little ahead of the green curve. Although that's changing in certain areas.

Nonetheless, here's another example. Stuart Handley at Dell's Inside IT blog has some observations regarding IDC's Green IT Barometer.

Your interpretation of the results will be influenced by whether you’re an optimist or a pessimist. Almost exactly half of European enterprises now have a formal green IT strategy in place (if you’re a pessimist, almost half don’t!). But those that do have a green IT strategy predict they’ll save money this year. These are large companies, spending on average 160 million euros per year on IT. Those with a green IT strategy expect to deliver 14.5% real cost savings in the next 12 months – that equates to an massive 23.2 million euros per year.

There are many hurdles for firms to overcome on the way to establishing a formal green IT strategy. The most frequently mentioned challenges were lack of in-house skills and expertise; other constraints and priorities which are not compatible with a green IT strategy, and plain lack of time.

The results were taken from 459 IT directors at organizations with 1,000+ employees.

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