A Springboard To Services

I was very interested in a strong contrast in the state of Green IT in Australia, on one hand, IBM research has highlighted Australia as a leader in Green IT awareness, and UK-based IT recycling outfit, Just Recycle IT, has launched in Australia. It specialises in the removal and disposal of redundant IT. The basis of the interest in the local market is the lack of relevant recycling legislation.

I feel that the market here is going to be highly regulated in the near future, especially in the light of Australia's government change. The IBM research is of course positive for Australia, but along with the rest of the world, there is a considerable amount to be done before IT can claim any level of Green maturity.

Murdoch now has very young children and grandchildren as well as adult children, perhaps a view towards his young children's future (I am not always cynical)

On Wednesday night I attended the Australian launch of EDS's Green IT. Given the explosion in interest of Green IT, this is not of real note. The exception is that to date all the vendors looking publicly at Green IT initiatives have been hardware providers of one sort or another. We have seen outcomes from HP, Dell, IBM, Wyse amongst many others focusing on Green IT. Where EDS has a potential advantage is through the use of the Agility Alliance. When this was announced I was quite cynical, especially from the perspective of the interaction between the various members and collaboration with multiple partners. But we have seen evidence that EDS can act as a hub, and a small number of vendors can then provide integrated solutions together. This is where the advantage in terms of Green IT will come through. As a company that does not manufacture a product, EDS can leverage and combine the elements of the hardware side of the Agility Alliance to produce integrated solutions to save energy, resources and also to meet the certain regulatory environment that is starting in some markets and will be global soon. For example a combination of Fuji Xerox, Dell and EDS will be able to provide (in principle at least) a significant offering in terms of Green IT. Given the portfolio of HP, they will be able to match this, but IBM will have to have some strong challenges in providing such as solution.