Turbonomic Blog

This is the second blog in a series that will cover the most pressing challenges, opportunities, best practices, and first steps for organizations on their path towards green IT. Check out the first blog, Four Roadblocks to Green IT, here. 

There is no doubt that sustainability has quickly become a top business initiative – regardless of industry, company size, or geography. We are excited to launch this first blog as a part of an upcoming series that will cover the most pressing challenges, opportunities, best practices, and first steps for organizations on their path towards green IT. 

Today’s CIO needs to be a change agent. Leading companies count on CIO’s to shift the value of IT from “keeping the lights on” to innovating. They are measured on impacting the differentiation of their company and its position in the marketplace.

The quest of the modern CIO is much different than it may have been in the not too distant past.  Recent years shows that more CIOs are leveraging and even demanding new IT operational models (e.g. Cloud, PaaS) to move from baseline operations to advancing the state of business through IT innovation.