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Green It: Reduce Your Information System's Environmental Impact While Adding to the Bottom Line
Contributor(s): Velte, Toby (Author), Velte, Anthony (Author), Elsenpeter, Robert C. (Author)
ISBN: 0071599231     ISBN-13: 9780071599238
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
OUR PRICE:   $36.00  
Product Type: Paperback
Published: October 2008
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Annotation: Reduce your IT department's environmental impactThis groundbreaking work offers a complete roadmap for adopting green techniques within IT. The book provides both the business case for change along with a technological, step-by-step plan to ensure an IT department makes as little impact on the environment--and the budget--as possible. You will find a global perspective, focusing on how to minimize impact domestically and abroad. U.S. and international regulations, initiatives, and standards are included.
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BISAC Categories:
- Computers | Security - General
- Computers | Enterprise Applications - General
- Business & Economics | Information Management
Dewey: 658.403
LCCN: 2008025478
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 7.4" W x 9.7" (1.30 lbs) 308 pages
Themes:
- Topical - Ecology
 
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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

Contributor Bio(s): Elsenpeter, Robert C.: - Robert C. Elsenpeter is an author, Web content writer, and award-winning journalist.Velte, Toby: -

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.

Velte, Anthony: - Anthony T. Velte, CISSP, CISA (Lake Elmo, MN) is cofounder of Velte Publishing, Inc., and coauthor of several books on Cisco technologies.