MUMBAI, INDIA: Christopher Mines, senior vice president, Forrester, confidently said that Green IT would see sustained investments recession notwithstanding.

Speaking on the third day of the NASSCOM India Leadership Forum here today, Mines picked up these trends as per an early read the Forrester had in October 2008.

Therein 25 per cent of the organizations surveyed shows a slow and steady growth in Green IT action plans ahead.

"The early read indicates that a slow macro economy will not slow Green IT efforts and there is a significant opportunity for IT organizations to implement Green IT, which can increase from a worldwide size of half billion dollars to about 5 billion dollars in 2013," he said.

He also suggested that suppliers should go for even more rigorous green procurement criteria for customers.

"Infrastructure vendors still underplay the Green characteristics of the service offerings like cloud computing," Christopher Mines said.

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