"China's IT users are ready to invest in technologies that are shown to increase productivity and improve efficiency. In particular, server and storage capacity as a service are gaining higher interest, especially in the banking industry where it has been proven to reduce the cost of storage and reduce the total cost of ownership," she noted.

The survey also revealed that 24 percent of Chinese organizations have increased their budgets for green IT in 2009. Garter defines green IT as the optimal use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) for managing the environmental sustainability of enterprise operations and the supply chain, as well as that of its products, services and resources, throughout their life cycles.

Organizations have started to establish measures to protect the environment and are willing to pay for it, said the research firm. In the area of green printing solutions and techniques, for example, this can not only enhance efficiency and achieve significant cost reduction, but also reduce ecological impact, through tactics such as duplex printing, power management and supplies management, Gartner added.