[ILUG-Social] Go Green With DirectView Videoconferencing

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Save Time, Money & Go Green! With DirectView Videoconferencing

 June 6, 2008 3:08PM For Immediate Release
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-- As gas prices continue to rise, one Silicon Valley tech giant is cutting 
its travel budget. Hewlett Packard figures videoconferencing is the answer 
to higher travel costs, so it is quadrupling the number of videoconferencing, 
or virtual meeting studios to avoid thousands of employee plane trips. 

"We will eliminate at least 20,000 trips per year. If you look at it in terms 
of what that means for the environment, that's actually the equivalent of taking 
about 6,500 passenger cars off the road for one year," said HP spokesman Ross 
Camp.

Companies are also installing GPS navigation devices to cut down on travel 
time for employees roaming around new places.

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More Virtual Meetings Translate Into Less Travel, Cutting Both Costs and Emissions

 

Analysts: Green a Priority & Videoconferencing a Key Tool for Greener Planet

Industry research groups report North America has now joined Asian, South American, 
European and Middle Eastern companies in looking to improve their organizations' 
environmental impact. IDC's "Green IT a Natural Fit for Enterprise Executives" 
(Doc # prUS20932407 published Oct. 31, 2007) found 50 percent of U.S. companies 
rate the improvement of their organization's environmental impact as either 
the highest or next to highest priority among senior management, while 42 percent 
believe it is most important or important for IT to take a leading role in 
making it happen.

A Gartner report entitled "Green IT: the New Industry Shockwave" by Simon Mingay, 
predicts, "We can expect to see a flurry of climate change legislation during 
the next two years. Cuts in greenhouse gas emissions of 25 percent by 2020 
and 60 to 80 percent by 2050 are likely targets." The report goes on to state, 
"An obvious opportunity lies in travel substitution, using video conferencing 
technologies, and using communication and collaboration tools to build an infrastructure 
and culture that enable and encourage remote collaboration." 

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