



Governments are starting to recognise the need to reduce its carbon footprint and mitigate negative environmental impacts. Green IT can reduce exponentially the consumption and costs associated with critical, energy-intensive government IT functions, like the datacentre and the desktop. Victor Tsao, GM for Citrix Systems in Greater China, offers three key areas to help public-sector green efforts.
Procurement outsourcing is the smallest of the horizontal business process outsourcing (BPO) functions, but many industry experts believe 2010 will see significant expansion in the market.
Trade groups are protesting an "unprecedented" new Chinese policy that gives local IT products preference for government contracts there, arguing that the rules will actually hamper innovation in China.



