Information Technology for Environmental Protection

Research shows that companies spend three percent of their annual turnover on printing. This not only means high costs but also considerable environmental impact (paper and ink) that "eventually ends up as enormous amounts of paper trash." Austria - which has converted to electronic document management at a governmental level - conducted a survey and found that the amendment of a traditional dossier cost 20 EUR, while the same modification cost only 6 euro cents in an electronic system. A modern electronic document management system not only has mere docketing tasks in a paper-based world, but also a number of unimaginable other functions. In general (through the various modules, functions), they allow the registration of documents, and with prepared templates help to facilitate the work of involved participants, aid in the distribution and support of storage, archiving and retrieval, and protect the document with authorization systems and logging against unauthorized use. Server Virtualization: Virtualization is an effective way of making IT more green. With its help, platforms with multiple operating systems or applications can be run on the partitions of the same machine. The generic server utilization is considered to be 20-30 percent which can be increased to 70-80 percent with server virtualization.