Emailing "Verizon: Green IT Hot in '09"
Telecommunications giant Verizon says energy efficiency will be one of the biggest technology trends in 2009. The company's Business services unit sees getting a leg up on
greening IT as a competitive advantage:
Anther technology trend that will help cut costs is the greening of IT. Corporate social responsibility is becoming increasingly important to how companies are viewed by employees, customers and investors, and going green early will help businesses get a leg up on their competition, Verizon said.
"Savvy companies today are embracing the green initiative to get ahead of government and business mandates that will eventually force the issue," Verizon said.
Sounds good to me. Also making the list are SaaS, IPv6 and unified communications (duh).
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