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

Green IT should reduce environmental impact and improve profits.

Green IT offers a comprehensive roadmap for integrating environmentally sound techniques and technologies into your information systems architecture.

Reduce the environmental and budgetary impact of your IT infrastructure - buy this book to help you!

This groundbreaking work offers a comprehensive 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, utilising virtualisation technologies, and managing sustainable development.

After reading this book, you will have learnt how to:

• Work within current global initiatives and standards for e-waste
• Minimise power usage and use alternative cooling methods in your data centre
• Transition your office into a paperless environment
• Equip your organisation with green hardware, including EPEAT, RoHS, and ENERGY STAR-certified machines
• Implement efficient data centre design in terms of energy consumption, cooling, server configuration, consolidation, cabling, redundancy, and more
• Virtualise servers and storage using the latest technologies from VMware, Microsoft, Compellent, Incipient, and others
• Measure existing data centre 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

Key Features & Benefits:

• Offers a comprehensive roadmap for integrating environmentally sound techniques and technologies into your information systems architecture. Additionally, having the added benefits of improving your bottom line and offering PR opportunities.
• Explains how to adopt a business-driven green initiative and provides a detailed implementation plan. Helping those organisations who want to undertake a green IT initiative with a step-by-step approach.
• An ideal primer for those new to the field of green IT. Pinpoints all the key issues and highlights them to you. Helping you understand the crucial information.

Here are the contents of this book:

Authors: Toby Velte, Anthony Velte, Robert Elsenpeter
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne
ISBN 10: 0071599231
ISBN 12: 9780071599238
Pages: 308
Format: Softcover
Published Date: 1 October 2008
Availability: In Stock

Keep your IT department and your organisation in the green - both environmentally and financially - with help from this comprehensive guide, buy today!