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NHS 'will use virtualisation to go green'
06/02/2009
The National Health Service (NHS) will embrace technologies such as virtualisation and cloud computing in a bid to reduce its carbon footprint, it has emerged.
With the government pledging to cut carbon emissions by 80 per cent in the next 40 years, the NHS is expected to play a leading role in improving energy efficiency and reducing the impact of the public sector on the environment.
The NHS claims that it produces 18 million tons of carbon dioxide per year, accounting for 25 per cent of the public sector's total and 3.2 per cent of the UK's total emissions.
Mark Ferrar, the NHS director, told Silicon: "Dealing with the environment is something we have to embed in our approach to IT."
He added that virtualisation would help in this process, claiming: "We've got to get to the point in the NHS where there's no reason not to virtualise servers."
An NHS IT department in Kettering made the news recently when it was revealed that WAN optimisation had helped it save on communications costs.
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