Impacts of Green IT

Running head: IMPACTS OF GREEN IT
Impacts of Green IT
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction.................................................................................................2
2. Discussion....................................................................................................2
3. Conclusion...................................................................................................8
References.....................................................................................................10

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1. Introduction
Green IT can be defined as the certain practice as environment friendly
form of sustainable computing. The primary aim of Green IT would be to
maximize the different kind of negative impact based on IT operations that
are made over the environment (Molla, Abareshi and Cooper 2014). The
various kind of computing operations, which are performed are based on
designing of certain computing aspects, manufacturing them, operating
them and disposal of computer and other related products in an
environmental friendly process. The primary motive for the implication of
Green IT would be based on reduction of different forms of hazardous
materials, maximizing the efficiency of energy during the lifetime of product
and thus promoting the use of biodegradable and outdated products.
The primary concept of Green IT had mainly emerged in the year 1992
during the time when the U.S Environmental Protection Agency had launched
Energy Star. It was a voluntary program that had their main aim for saving
energy and money within every organisation. The program also had aims for
reducing the different emissions of greenhouse gases that would provide
superior form of efficiency of energy (Deng and Ji 2015). There are different
kind of components based on Green IT, which includes the controlling of
growing popularity based on virtualization, redesigning of data centers, cloud
computing and green networking. There are many private and governmental
organisation who are in the process for implementing new standards that
would regulate the effect of green computing within their organisation.
2. Discussion
In the recent times, there is a wide kind of use of different usage of
Green IT technology that are implemented by different organisations to bring
various kind of impacts towards their sectors. Green IT would generally be
defined as the term that refers to efficient of useful resources based on
computing factors (Kharchenko and Illiashenko 2017). The factor of

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efficiency based on Green IT would mainly emphasize on minimizing the
factor of hazardous factors based within environment. It would also help in
bringing a broad spectrum of different kind of subjects. The entire area of
Green IT would cover a wide range of aspects. This includes – sustainable
form of digital services, alternative methods of generation of energy and
varies techniques for reducing the consumption of energy (Tushi, Sedera and
Recker 2014). There are many organisations who are highly focused on using
different kind of eco-friendly solutions that would help in reducing the
negative impacts made by the use of IT. There are some kind of technical
issues based on the impacts of green technology (Zhang and Xie 2015).
These include: use of green hardware, green infrastructure, using of energy
efficient server design, green hardware systems and solid-state storage
systems.
Based on the purpose of achieving social awareness in relation to
green computing and promoting the solutions based on green technology,
the different complementary approaches could be highly employed.
1. Green Disposal – The organisations focused of implementing
Green IT within their organisational services could reuse the existing
computers and different other kind of existing devices associated with their
recycling of used and unwanted computers (Azmal
et al. 2014). Different
other forms of electronic wastes by different IT vendors could be helpful for
enabling the full lifecycle of the products that are used by them.
2. Green Use – This process defines the reduction of power
consumption of computers and different other forms of information systems
(Ali
et al. 2016). Different other peripheral subsystems that would be highly
eco-friendly in nature would be used within the industries.
3. Green Design – The various connecting companies, environmental
organisations and government organisations could help themselves based on
the development of regulatory and business processes. Inventive