PRINTITRESELLER.UK 5 BULLETIN Where do you take yours? We’re all about championing print at PrintIT Reseller, and over the past few months, we’ve loved finding out where our magazine travels with YOU. This month we feature several industry stalwarts taking time out to catch up on the latest news at Tech Orbit 2024, the premier UK tech event of the year from Northamber Group, which took place on September 19 at Epsom Downs Racecourse. We’re delighted that so many of our readers are taking on the challenge and sending us pix of them reading PrintIT Reseller in unusual settings. Keep them coming!! Please send your pix to me at [email protected] Andrew Cowling, Channel Marketing Manager at PFU (EMEA) Limited – a Ricoh company Martin Pain, Document Solutions Business Unit Manager, Northamber Robbie Trower, Sales Manager UK & Ireland | Benelux | Nordics, Kodak Alaris Paul Callow, Fidelity Energy Sustainability remains a crucial focus Research conducted by the Cloud Industry Forum found that 86% of businesses report that environmental, social and governance (ESG) and sustainability is important to their organisation when deciding which cloud vendor to work with, with almost half (44%) considering it extremely important. This second figure is up from 30% in 2023, indicating that despite media reports of ESG being put on the backburner by many companies, they remain committed to continued sustainability efforts. The data from this year’s report indicates that organisations value ESG highly, with 40% of respondents reporting that IT sustainability is an important project for their organisation. This ranks equally with other areas of business such as security and cloud migration and is second only to artificial intelligence (42%). This continued emphasis on sustainability is supported by the finding that 79% of organisations are now measuring the carbon footprint of their existing data storage infrastructure in the cloud. According to the data, 47% of organisations have already been measuring this for more than 12 months, and just 7% indicated that they do not have any plans to measure this in the future. Further, organisations are taking crucial steps to reach net zero despite economic constraints, with 87% of organisations planning to reach net zero by at least 2050. More than a quarter (26%) of respondents plan to achieve the milestone before 2030. On the whole, businesses are largely positive about their sustainability credentials, and this is growing year on year. 31% of respondents now believe the sustainability of their organisation’s IT emissions is ‘established and mature’, a figure that has increased from 16% in 2023. https://cloudindustryforum.org
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