The purpose of the questions on this page is to evaluate the sustainability of the ICT infrastructure of an enterprise. If a question cannot be answered with “yes” there could be potential for improvement.
| 1. | Strategy and Organization | |
|---|---|---|
| 1.1 | Is the responsibility for sustainability and/or environmental issues and/or Green IT in your enterprise assigned? | |
| 1.2 | Is a Green IT strategy developed and integrated in the existing environment management systems? | |
| 1.3 | Are the ICT services units and ICT infrastructure units consolidated? | |
| 1.4 | Are the cost of all the ICT Services allocated and billed by user departments for the whole company? | |
| 1.5 | Are efficiency objectives, planned actions and their significance as well as progress communicated clearly internally and externally (communication plan)? | |
| 1.6 | Is there an education concept in addition to the communication plan for the employees? | |
| 2. | Energy management | |
| 2.1 | Is the energy consumption in the ICT-area known, is it measured? | |
| 2.2 | Is the energy consumption in addition to the hardware also measured in the ICT services and software area? | |
| 3. | PC workplace | |
| 3.1 | Are PCs if not used in the sleep mode and will they be switched-off completely at the end of the workday (avoid apparent off-mode)? | |
| 3.2 | Are energy savings programs on the workplace PC used (energy management tools), which allow to adapt the electricity consumption to the needed performance? | |
| 3.3 | Are in the place of fully equipped workstations thin clients used? | |
| 4. | Display | |
| 4.1 | Is the energy savings mode in the displays activated? | |
| 4.2 | Are the displays when not in use for longer periods switched off? | |
| 4.3 | Is after delivery of the displays the brightness adapted, respectively optimized? | |
| 4.4 | Are the screen savers deactivated? | |
| 5. | Printer | |
| 5.1 | Are printers in standby mode during the workday and switched off at night? | |
| 5.2 | Are the default values in the printer drivers set to black and white? | |
| 5.3 | Is to a large extent recycling paper used? | |
| 5.4 | Is double page printing routinely used? | |
| 5.5 | Are toner cartridges collected in order to refill and reuse them? | |
| 5.6 | Are primarily multifunction printers used? | |
| 5.7 | Is printer centralization enforced? | |
| 5.8 | Are printers preferred which do not have combined toner and development units? | |
| 6. | Server | |
| 6.1 | Is server operation systematically optimized (for example through application of cloud computing)? | |
| 6.2 | Are the newest available energy optimized technologies used? Are old servers being replaced early on by the most modern ones? | |
| 6.3 | Is workplace virtualization with thin clients implemented? | |
| 6.4 | Is application consolidation on the servers taking place? | |
| 6.5 | Is server virtualization taking place (several virtual servers on one physical server)? | |
| 6.6 | Are the energy savings functions on the server used? | |
| 6.7 | Are blade servers used? | |
| 6.8 | Do you pay attention to adequate size of servers? | |
| 6.9 | Is the cooling of the servers in the dedicated server room optimized and the temperature adjusted to the highest by the supplier recommended room temperature? | |
| 6.10 | Is the uninterruptible power supply (UPS) optimized as much as possible for energy efficiency? | |
| 7. | Network | |
| 7.1 | Are WiFi Access Points switched off when not used for a longer period (for example with a timer)? | |
| 7.2 | Are the WiFi routers powered by the Eithernet? | |
| 7.3 | Is the Wake-on-LAN function of the workplace PCs deactivated? | |
| 7.4 | Are in the Local Area Network for PCs and peripheral units intelligent switches used? | |
| 8. | Social and ecological aspects | |
| 8.1 | Are the introduced IT-products checked for environmentally friendly production and gray energy? | |
| 8.2 | Are the social responsibility of the producers and the working conditions of their suppliers considered when buying a product? | |
| 8.3 | Are replaced and redundant products returned to the sellers or otherwise properly disposed? | |
| 8.4 | If products are acquired is the energy need checked and are primarily products with energy labels bought? | |
| 9. | Various | |
| 9.1 | Are network adaptors when not in use separated from the socket? | |
| 9.2 | Is the concept of desk sharing implemented, meaning the use of PCs which are only partly used by several employees? | |