Computers Off Australia (COA), a not-for-profit campaign and labelling initiative, developed to help reduce Australia's IT carbon footprint and labelling organisation committed to greening their IT infrastructure has today announced that Event Zero is certified under its Power Management (Green) scheme.

COA is an educational marketing and awareness campaign, combined with a labelling scheme that classifies organisations using three colour-coded ticks that represent Power Management (Green), Virtualisation (Blue) and Carbon Neutral (Gold).The COA environmental certification labelling scheme is designed to help businesses, government and individuals identify organisations that are doing their part in reducing their CO2 emissions by lowering their power consumption.

"Event Zero recently set out to build Greentrac Office, a software solution to assist organisations to understand their PC fleet utilization, energy consumption, costs and CO2 emissions - with a strong focus on user engagement and empowerment", said David Tucker, CEO of Brisbane based Event Zero. "By using this product directly ourselves we realised significant energy reductions, cost savings and environmental impacts without affecting day to day business productivity."

Dr Idris F. Sulaiman, CEO of Computers Off Australia said, "When any IT vendor makes a commitment to developing Green IT solutions, this is a great start. Event Zero have raised their hand as not only being a leading developer of IT power management technology with their Greentrac Office product but they have also taken action to reduce their environmental impact and certified under the COA Power Management certification.

"We see this as Event Zero putting the challenge out to other vendors and organisations to step up and take action and certify to show their real commitment to the environment. This is one way to stop the "green washing" that we are seeing in the market place today," Idris concluded.

The Computers Off certification has been created as the IT industry's guide to help business, government and individuals quickly and easily identify organisations that are doing their part to reduce their power consumption and in turn reducing their CO2 emissions. This non-for-profit initiative is supported by the IT industry peak body, the Australian Information Industry Association (AIIA) in their industry-wide drive to help reduce Australia's IT carbon footprint. IT infrastructure typically accounts for more than 20 per cent of the energy used in an office building and, in some offices with more IT-intensive operations or large data centres, this percentage can go over 50 per cent. As the costs of energy - and carbon emissions - rise, there are obvious imperatives to lower these figures.

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