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The amount (in kilogrammes) of CO2eq
emitted per domain name by EURid, the
.eu registry, in 2014. In an attempt to
reduce its environmental impact, EURid,
from this month, will be using the services
of EBRC Trusted Services, an energy
efficient data centre based in Luxembourg.
It is also offsetting emissions by helping to
fund the Ecomapuá project in the state of
Pará on Marajó Island.
The number of SMS and MMS messages
fell by 11% and 17% respectively in the
second quarter of this year as more users
took up mobile instant messaging (IM).
The
Q2 Mobile Messaging Report
from
GlobalWebIndex also found that many
of the conversations that used to take
place on ‘traditional’ social networks like
Facebook have now moved to the likes of
Snapchat,WhatsApp andWeChat.
UK offshore wind
capacity has surpassed
5 gigawatts (GW) for
the first time. According
to RenewableUK, the
trade association for the
wind and marine energy
industries, this is enough
to supply the needs of
over 3.5 million British
households and save 6.3
million tonnes of carbon
emissions each year.
A report by the Global Center for Digital
Business Transformation (DCT Center)
shows that digital disruption will displace
approximately 40% of incumbent
companies within the next 5 years in
each of the 12 industries studied. The
survey indicates that nearly a third
of incumbent companies are taking a
‘wait and see’ approach, in the hope of
emulating successful competitors.
Four out of 10 (41%) small businesses
have contingency plans in place so that
staff who can’t get to work for any
reason can still work remotely without
customers being aware of any disruption.
According to research by alldayPA, a call
answering service for business, 27% of
small businesses have invested in remote
working equipment and IT infrastructure
in the last 12 months.
Over half (54%) of IT decision-makers
in European enterprises believe that
privileged users, including system,
The Month in Numbers
... don’t know how much they spend on
printing.
... of those that do know spend more than
£10,000 a year on print, and 39% say
they are overspending due to unnecessary
printing by employees.
... print more than a standard size box of
paper a week..
... of SMEs use multifunction devices..
Printing costs are still out of control in the majority of businesses
according to a new survey commissioned by Oki Systems UK.
database and network administrators,
pose the greatest risk to their
organisation, according to the 2015
Insider Threat
survey by Vormetric. Only
13% say that their organisations is not at
all vulnerable to insider threats – a slight
improvement on last year’s figure of 9%.
More than two-thirds (68%) of SME
owners worry that business productivity
and revenue would be affected if a
member of staff was absent for more
than four weeks. Yet, according to
AXA PPP healthcare, only 6% of SME
expenditure after wages is spent
on employee benefits that could
reduce sickness and improve absence
management.
Businesses could make productivity
savings of up to £300 per employee, per
year by using Auto Feed shredders, Rexel
claims. It says that using an auto-feed
shredder rather than having to feed
pages manually reduces the amount of
time employees spend shredding by up
to 98%. The greater throughout also
enables companies to reduce the amount
they spend on outsourcing shredding by
up to 65%.
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47%
44%
85%
41%
39%
Companies in
the UK waste
over one
billion hours
and £14
billion a year
on research
that does not
yield effective
business
insights
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... outsource the printing of simple items
like business cards and/or other stationery,
despite the fact that this is easy to do
in-house using graphic arts printers and
downloadable templates (this figure rises
to 61% among businesses with 100-249
employees).
... are able to print from mobile devices,
rising to 44% for businesses with
100-249 employees and 47% for those
with 250-499 employees.
