Bangalore: These days, there are many companies adopting green technologies, but when it comes to the actual implementation and monitoring of these initiatives, not many IT managers seem to be interested in it. This trend is mostly seen in datacenters where the IT managers are not paying attention for measuring, monitoring and modeling the energy use, reveals a recent study conducted by research firm Gartner.

Conducted in April this year among more than 130 respondents from the infrastructure and operations (I&O) management, the Gartner study found that although green IT issues remain at the top of the agenda, respondents consider vendor and green procurement a low priority activity for the next 18 months. "This finding is further affirmed in client conversations which reveal that, although the green IT and datacenter energy issue has been on the agenda for some time now, many managers feel that they have to deal with more immediate concerns before focusing attention on their suppliers' products," said Rakesh Kumar, Research Vice President at Gartner.

Although 68 percent of respondents thought datacenter energy management is their most important green IT issue for the next 18 months, only seven percent consider green procurement and pushing vendors to create more energy efficient and greener solutions as their top priority. Further, Gartner said that energy management (both in terms of capacity and cost) can only be effective through advanced monitoring, modeling and measuring techniques and processes. On being asked which energy management metrics they will use in the next 18 months, 48 percent of respondents said that they had not even considered the issue of metrics, says the study.