Wu said large organisations in China expect to see an immediate pay-off on their IT investments.

"China's IT users are ready to invest in IT if it can be 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 said.

The survey also revealed that 24 per cent of Chinese organisations have increased their budgets for green IT in 2009.

Gartner defines green IT as the optimal use of information and communication technology 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.