One of the hassles of trying to take a green, or at least energy-efficient, approach to buying IT hardware is the time-consuming necessity to read through complex technical specs to discover appropriate components.
Dell is to offer a shortcut through that process by tagging such components so that buyers can select configurations without ploughing through details of performance-per-watt, thermal characteristics and so on. It expects to have configurations ready next month.
“An organisation’s green footprint is a boardroom issue and from there a front-of-mind IT issue,” said Hugh Jenkins, Dell UK enterprise manager.
“One of the things we’re looking at is offering configurations of ‘green machines’ so if a customer chooses that configuration they would know it’s the absolute best we could do. We’re still kicking around [branding to identify these configurations] but the message will be all around energy efficiency.”
It’s an interesting move but it could put IT buyers in a quandary as optimal configurations usually still demand a bigger power envelope. Vendors that market their green credentials are, therefore, often asking buyers to trade off performance for low power demands.
Performance is just one component of virtualisation and tough to compare 25 Jul 2007
IBM's Big Green Innovations initiative is preparing a new sustainable business consultancy service based on the popular Six Sigma process methodologies 04 Oct 2007
New report concludes that environmental best practices are entering the mainstream for UK supermarkets 15 Oct 2007
Building giant details plans to develop three more commercially viable zero carbon homes over next three years 16 May 2008
Toyota claims the iconic hybrid vehicle has helped cut global carbon emissions by approximately 4.5m tonnes in the last decade 16 May 2008
More news
After two decades of development countless nanotechnologies are fast approaching commercial viability – and they have the potential to redefine the clean tech sector 16 May 2008
Green business courses are springing up think and fast, but as Vanessa Crossgrove Fry warns it could still be several years before we see Green MBAs take their place in the largest firms 14 May 2008 More in-depth
Post your comment
Send an email to the Business Green editor at feedback@businessgreen.com
