This year's ITWeb Green IT Summit, being held on 18 August at The Forum in Bryanston, will focus on delivering business value by implementing green IT in an organisation.
The summit comes as the global economic downturn and ongoing energy constraints push cost and energy savings to the top of CEOs' agendas, giving green IT even more prominence.
“This year's highlights are the green banking session from Nedbank, architecting greener solutions from Microsoft, and data centre energy consumption reduction from Fujitsu,” states Joyce Adams, ITWeb conference producer.
“Companies not integrating 'greenery' into their operational policies are unconsciously placing their brand at a serious competitive disadvantage,” she says.
“At ITWeb's Green IT Summit, executives will learn how their organisations can incorporate greening solutions into ICT architectural designs as well as best practices for reducing power and energy consumption in the IT world,” Adams points out.
The event has been specifically designed to provide organisations with insights into how to deploy a green IT strategy that will transform their IT and data centre into more environmentally-conscious and cost-effective operations.
Topics to be discussed include: how to successfully develop a green IT strategy, understanding how sustainable IT can deliver business value, examining the introduction of new green tax systems in SA, assessing the effectiveness of SA's e-waste initiatives, and examining how to implement green enterprise data centres.
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