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The name of the topic is a misnomer and many people associate Green IT being a topic that is concerned only with environmentalist. Nonetheless, the amount of concepts that Green IT include are enormous and a hot topic among all people associated with IT. The dream of every employee, WORK FROM HOME (WHM) is also a part of an initiative that has led the world to rethink on their strategies in business where IT is involved.

Not only techies, but managers, strategist, accountants all have a major role to play in the Green Initiative. Here are some of the issues addressed by Green IT:

* Disposal of Electronic waste

* Telecommuting

Also termed as e-commuting, e-work, telework etc is quite famous as WFH (Working From Home) among the employees. It is a work arrangement in which employees have flexibility of working location and timings. They use mobile communication technology to work from home or myriad other locations. This style of working needs a complete new management culture and structure; where the focus is more on end-results rather than close scrutiny of employees.

* Thin Client

Refers to client computer or client software in client-serverarchitecture that depends essentially on server for all its processing operations. On contrary, fat client is the one that has most of its processing in the client side and needs server only for communication and storage purposes.

* Management Restructuring

* Return On Investment

Thanks to recession, industries are now targeting on One Resource Double Work drifting away from One Resource One Work framework. Virtualization refers to the concept of abstraction of computing resources like using two logical systems out of single hardware. Administrators can combine several physical systems into virtual powerful systems, thereby unplugging the original hardware and reducing the power consumption.

* Algorithms Efficiency

Green IT adds on to the time efficiency of algorithms and brings a new layer of efficiency concerning the amount of resources used for performing the algorithm. Google is facing controversy over the destruction it creates to environment for a single search.

After reading all this, now I guess your misconceptions about Green IT are purged! So time now to move away from dark and look at something that can earn you a deserving manager credit . Its all about being GREEN now!