IBM sponsored research claims that while green issues are becoming more high profile within companies few businesses have as yet looked at implementing a green IT policy. Some 42 per cent of the 213 IT executives surveyed do not monitor the energy impact of their IT spending. More than half do not measure the environmental impact of IT usage whilst one third of respondents do have some measurement in place. Most companies do appear to have a board level executive responsible for reducing their carbon footprint. But only 45 per cent have a programme in place to reduce carbon emissions.

US-based Web Hosting provider Rackspace Managed Hosting has published a customer survey which indicates that 62 per cent of respondents are concerned by their environmental impact and are looking for ways to reduce it. Some 52 per cent of respondents stated that they would be willing to pay between 5 to 10 per cent more for green products or service offerings. Separately some 51 per cent of users are willing to trade 5 to 10 per cent of their server performance to achieve lower carbon emissions.

GoldenGate Software Inc., a leading provider of high availability and real-time data integration solutions, has announced the results of a recent survey, Moving From Analytics to Operational Business Intelligence: The Changing Role of the Data Warehouse, produced by Unisphere Research and the International DB2 Users Group (IDUG), in cooperation with GoldenGate Software. The survey finds that while many organisations have an established data warehouse, the demand for operational business intelligence impacting a wider range of decision makers across the enterpriseis increasing.