Trends Report

Updated Q1 2011: Is Green IT Your Emperor With No Clothes?

Measure Your Green IT Baseline Or Risk Being Caught With Your Pants Down

February 9th, 2011
Doug Washburn, VP, Research Products
Doug Washburn VP, Research Products
With contributors:
Laura Koetzle , Nick Hayes

Summary

Is green IT your emperor with no clothes? It is if you've invested in green IT with the promise of reducing energy costs but haven't measured your energy baseline. Without a baseline, IT leaders can't guide their green IT efforts with solid data, create realistic goals and metrics, or track successes over time. If this situation sounds familiar, you're not alone: Forrester finds that despite a steady rise in green IT plans and adoption, only 30% of organizations have taken a baseline measurement of their energy consumption. To get on the right track, you need to perform an annual estimate of energy consumption, carbon dioxide emissions, and dollar costs of operating IT inside and outside of the data center. Forrester recommends that IT infrastructure and operations (I&O) professionals own the green IT baseline process since they already manage their organization's energy-consuming IT assets.

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