Green IT: Reduce Your Information System's Environmental Impact While Adding to the Bottom Line - Softcover

Velte, Toby; Velte, Anthony; Elsenpeter, Robert C.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0071599231 ISBN 13: 9780071599238

Publisher: McGraw Hill, 2008

Synopsis

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Reduce the environmental and budgetary impact of your IT infrastructure

This groundbreaking work offers a complete roadmap for integrating environmentally sound techniques and technologies into your Information Systems architecture. Green IT explains how to adopt a business-driven green initiative and provides a detailed implementation plan. You will find strategies for reducing power needs, procuring energy from alternative sources, utilizing virtualization technologies, and managing sustainable development. Case studies highlighting successful green IT projects at major organizations are included. Keep your IT department and your organization in the green--both environmentally and financially--with help from this comprehensive guide.

• Work within current global initiatives and standards for e-waste
• Minimize power usage and use alternative cooling methods in your datacenter
• Transition your office into a paperless environment
• Equip your organization with green hardware, including EPEAT-, RoHS-, and ENERGY STAR-certified machines
• Implement efficient datacenter design in terms of energy consumption, cooling, server configuration, consolidation, cabling, redundancy, and more
• Virtualize servers and storage using the latest technologies from VMware, Microsoft, Compellent, Incipient, and others
• Measure existing datacenter efficiency using current metrics, and track progress with Business Intelligence tools
• Establish a green supply chain
• Explore the Software as a Service (SaaS) model
• Manage ongoing compliance and sustainable growth

About this title

From the Back Cover:

"Green IT is a social imperative that meets the needs of business. This book guides organizations in applying environmentally sound practices to business and technology decisions--helping them reduce their consumption of resources, energy dependencies, and costs. These issues are real and the time to act is now." --Adam Warby, CEO, Avanade

About the Author:

Toby J. Velte, Ph.D., is an internationally bestselling author of business technology articles and books. He is cofounder of Velte Publishing, Inc.

Anthony T. Velte, CISSP, CISA, is cofounder of Velte Publishing Inc., and a bestselling author of a variety of technology books, including Cisco: A Beginners Guide and Microsoft Windows Vista Administration.

Robert Elsenpeter is an award-winning journalist and author of a dozen technology books.

About this edition

• Publisher: McGraw Hill
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0071599231
• ISBN 13: 9780071599238
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 308