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Moving into an increasingly fossil fuel-hungry world and faced with tighter international compliance regulations, companies can no longer sit idly by and remain indifferent to the carbon footprint of their networking infrastructure.

According to global research firm, Gartner, power and cooling will drive the evolution of data centres into becoming conceptual models of intelligent 'living organisms' as organisations need to improve energy efficiency. Gartner says data centre energy costs double every five years and predicts that energy costs will have increased by 1 600% by 2025.

In a Gartner report, 22% of companies worldwide anticipate spending more than 15% of their IT capital budgets on green IT projects. While there is certainly a shift in awareness about energy efficiency, companies need to rethink their IT strategies in order curb escalating energy wastage.

However, research shows that organisations are opting for sustainable solutions in order to cut costs in less than 12 to 24 months, rather than with the aim of saving the environment.

Gartner says more than 30% of ICT energy use is generated by computers. Companies need to become smarter, more responsible and understand their network energy requirements as well as set realistic goals in order to meet those needs.

Emerging technologies such as next-generation networks are more energy efficient and this might become the drivers for companies to come onto the green IT bandwagon.

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