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Sustainability in IT

For one of the projects I'm currently involved in, we want to have a better view on sustainability within IT and see what we (IT) can contribute in light of the sustainability strategy of the company. For IT infrastructure, one would think that selecting more power-efficient infrastructure is the way to go, as well as selecting products whose manufacturing process takes special attention to sustainability.

There are other areas to consider as well, though. Reusability of IT infrastructure and optimal resource consumption are at least two other attention points that deserve plenty of attention. But let's start at the manufacturing process...