Top five predictions for Green IT in Asia-Pacific

Initial results from IDC’s ongoing Asia/Pacific Green Poll – end-user surveys assessing the buying behaviour of IT executives with respect to Green IT in the Asia/Pacific region – highlight that awareness and adoption of Green IT does vary a great deal depending on the maturity of the market. However, it is becoming clear across the board that end-users will be expecting vendors to take more responsibility in terms of bringing Green products and services to market as well as improving their own internal Green operations and practices in the future.

According to Philip Carter, head of IDC’s Asia/Pacific Green IT practice, “It is interesting to see that IT executives are expecting vendors to take more responsibility in the area of Green IT. This is validated by the fact that 81 percent of organisations thought that the ‘Greenness’ of their IT suppliers would become ‘much more important’ over the next few years. Today, 18 percent of the organisations surveyed considered the Greenness of the IT suppliers before making a selection and another 30 percent expected to do so in the near future.”