Doing more with less – how outsourcing players are going green?

Courtesy: http://indialeadershipforum.nasscom.in/

By Chris Mines of Forrester, Paul Coby, British Airways and Sanjiv Puri, ITC infotech and chaired by MR Rangaswamy of Sandhill.

Overall a good session and surprisingly MRR gave out a list of potential areas one should concentrate or where there is going to be lot of activity in the sort term which many people were struggling to mention is sessions which was meant for it.

Anyway, these are the areas what MRR suggested to work as they have very high potential,

- Consolidating the Data Center

- Tele Commuting

- Virtualization

- Telepresence

- Green IT

- Green ERP

- Carbon Counting

Best thing is that we can sell all these to the existing clients itself and still better can all be done remotely without worrying about any H1B visas!!!

Paul Coby mentioned about how the IT of BA is working on moving their IT from older power consuming architecture to latest servers which reduces the carbon count drastically and he explained all other measures they have taken to reduce the carbon footprint by a drastic % by 2025.

In fact Manju mentioned that how how firm (S7 Software) is doing migrations what we call “Green IT Migrations” where in we move applications from legacy power guzzler hardware into latest blade and similar servers by not only reducing the power consumption but also getting rid of them the maintenance cost and the legacy labor cost which in total works out much cheaper than maintaining the legacy hardware and hence green IT is not just caring for environment but also makes economic sense easily which both Paul and Chris agreed.

Paul said that all these is not just a green wash but are very committed for it.

Chris Mines of Forrester gave a detailed presentation on how, despite recession, enterprises continues to invest in greening their firms and IT. 31% surveyed said that they will pick vendors who understand the green, 25% of survey have already created a green IT plan and 10% have accelerated the green IT adoption and 39% are already implementing the plan and these data show that green IT is big and with more government regulations, it wont be a choice but a must and he urged Indian outsourcing companies to invest in this and be ready else lose out the opportunity.

This green IT was around 1/2 billion USD in 2008 and will be 5 billion USD in 2013 and is a huge market.

Later Sanjivn Puri gave detailed presentation talking about some of the great green initiatives taken up by ITC in general.

From my understanding and the way things are shaping up, days are not far off where the enterprises will a CGO (Chief Green Officer) for governing and implementing the green initiatives at enterprise!!!!