{"id":164,"date":"2007-08-21T20:17:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-21T10:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/?p=164"},"modified":"2007-08-21T20:17:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-21T10:17:00","slug":"going-green-for-all-good-cios","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/?p=164","title":{"rendered":"Going green, for all good CIOs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spent today at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cio.com.au\/index.php\/secid;51244\">Green CIO<\/a> conference at the Sydney Convention Centre.<\/p>\n<p>I got the impression many CIOs truly are thought leaders on the green bandwagon. One talking point was how the CIO has a unique opportunity to spearhead profound changes to the overall business by reducing IT&#8217;s energy consumption. At least one CIO agreed with me when I mentioned the new energy frenzy is simply a shift from it once being at the back of business&#8217; priorities to the forefront. Is waste ever good? <\/p>\n<p>The whole green thing also makes for a new marketing direction for the vendors. Well, perhaps for those not dropping box, after box, after box&#8230; Gotta love that virtualisation. <\/p>\n<p>Also, IDG Australia is now practicing what it is preaching with its own environmental policy aimed at reducing energy consumption and the ubiquitous &#8220;carbon footprint&#8221;. Great work team, kinda reminds me of my engineering days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spent today at the Green CIO conference at the Sydney Convention Centre. I got the impression many CIOs truly are thought leaders on the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8,16,17,22,32,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-conferences-events","category-idg","category-it-management","category-marketing","category-tech-industry","category-virtualization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}