Evergreen IT means keeping your technology current with small, regular updates instead of a large, disruptive and costly upgrade every few years. It also reduces the environmental impact of running your IT.
Many businesses run on hardware cycles that need a significant upgrade investment every few years. Evergreen IT keeps systems up to date with smaller, regular updates, so there is less downtime and no big disruptive project. It also cuts electronic waste, makes equipment last longer and lowers costs over time, because you need fewer capex replacements.
Sustainability is a large part of it. As well as buying energy-efficient devices, that means using less physical infrastructure, fewer resources and less energy. Moving to the cloud is one example: you run less hardware of your own, which cuts power use and your carbon footprint, and cloud providers run their data centres more efficiently than most individual companies can.
Energy-efficient equipment and cloud services cut electricity costs directly. Replacing equipment less often and getting more use out of what you already have saves on hardware and energy bills over the long term.
We provide Evergreen IT for clients who want to work more sustainably and spend less on running their IT. We do the same in our own office: we have installed solar panels to power our digital signage and charge our electric vehicles, which reduces our reliance on non-renewable energy and lowers our electricity bills.