Why IT Won't Power Down PCs

snydeq writes "Internal politics and poor leadership on sustainable IT strategies are among the top reasons preventing organizations from practicing proper PC power management — to the tune of $2.8 billion wasted per year powering unused PCs. According to a recent survey, 42 percent of IT shops do not manage PC energy consumption simply because no one in the organization has been made responsible for doing so — this despite greater awareness of IT power-saving myths, and PC power myths in particular. Worse, 22 percent of IT admins surveyed said that savings from PC power management 'flow to another department's budget.' In other words, resources spent by IT vs. the permanent energy crisis appear to result in little payback for IT."

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Re:IT is a customer service group

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You can't just group "the government" together as a unified entity in order to lay blame. The FBI was warning about the incredibly huge banking and mortgage crisis four or five YEARS ago. Bush reallocated a lot of the FBI workers who monitored banking and the economy to handle military intelligence instead during the terrorist situation of almost a decade ago. Of course, the bombings on the US in 2001 were several years in the past when the FBI was studying the banking issue, but GWB was still moving FBI work away from the economy toward national security. True, if the entire nation is at stake, the business economy takes a (very close, in a capitalist country) second place to national security, BUT, the resources were NEVER REALLOCATED. The FBI has been working on the lending problem for several years with both legs shackled, one arm chopped off, and several fingers on the remaining arm chopped off as well. It's not that our government didn't have departments aware of the coming problem and trying to prevent it or at least lessen the impact, but mismanagement by a misguided leader with too much power (what happened to checks and balances? what happened to the impeachment process?!?! GWB was impeached but it never carried through to a trial, and I don't understand why---even if the trial were to have cleared him of any wrongdoing since he was focused on national security, he still should have been brought to trial) resulted in a situation where most of the country was blindsighted (or is that blindsided? I've never been sure) to the issue.

Obama isn't some sort of savior; it is impressive that half-black man has finally assumed such a critical role that has only ever been held by white men. He really didn't seem to be "the lesser of two evils" during the election, either; he really seemed to be several steps above the competition. This doesn't mean that he's perfect. GWB left him with a giant, stinking pile of crap to clean up, and we can't expect any amazing changes rigth away. I don't think the stimulus and bailout approach has been handled very well (it has a few good points, but so did many of GWB's policies). Time will tell whether the current leadership matures to the point to impress the regions of the country that aren't deluded with the idea that Obama is some sort of second jesus.

But, at any rate, the government really didn't "cause" the problems that lead to the economic meltdown, per se. The FBI had been warning the Bush administration for a LONG time of the coming problem. Banking regulation changes designed to "promote capitalism" (as if unchecked greed has really done anyone much good--not advocating communism, but there is definitely a sane middle ground) accelerated the crisis, and maybe not instituting those changes would have heavily mitigated and delayed the issue. We can only guess, despite our best models; there is no reality to measure other than our one (see David Lewis's work about rigorous logical analyses to scenarios not part of our own world (properly a subset of philosophical 'metaphysics,' but I'm avoiding that word because of the new-agey connotations associated with it---nothing against new age ideas, they are quite inyeresting from psychological and spiritual perspectives, but that does not mean they are rigorous or even comparable to traditional philosophical metaphysics!)), so we can never really know what possibilties could have been realized.

However, at any rate, please get off of your anti-liberal high horse. Insulting liberals does nothing to help improve the world as it stands. Likewise, insulting conservatives does nothing to improve the world as it stands...

You are welcome to criticize liberals (just as I have criticized most conservatives and some liberals by expressing my prior opinions), but, tossing insults about waxing poets does not promote any helpful thought. ... waxing poets... somehow, now all I can think of is women who remove their leg hair via wax, and that really isn't jiving with my above points, at all...