Here's one such candid account from Cedric D'SOUZA, Manager, IT at Sanofi Aventis, as he chats with Pratima Harigunani of CyberMedia News on the margins of Enterprise Connect Awards 2008
 

As a CIO what's your view on green IT between the hype and the hands-on experience?

Things have certainly changed for better and greener. We have moved from huge stacks of servers to blades, to a world of six-hour battery backed-up laptops.

How's it like going green?

Of course, like many others, we are going green, but I am not completely satisfied. I confess that we do a little bit wherever possible but, for instance, whenever power is needed, there are practical compulsions; you have to use the power.

We can only select the best that's available on the manufacturing side and there are cost considerations as well besides criteria like power consumption. Though our motto is to go green. but it is hard to implement it.
 
So aren't technology vendors doing enough on the green direction?

Of course, manufacturers are bringing these technologies but they are expensive too and there are cost considerations besides the green objective.

How acute is the gap between the economy and ecology aspects?

It's not the user that can make much of a difference but the top management who implements and can make a difference if they have a policy of sanction accordingly. A CIO, who has his KRAs and cost targets to cover too, would be helped a lot in the green objective if that falls in place.