Savvy industry veteran Greg Schulz provides real-world insight, addressing best practices, server, software, storage, networking, and facilities issues concerning any current or next-generation virtual data center that relies on underlying physical infrastructures. Coverage includes:

Many current and emerging technologies can enable a green and efficient virtual data center to support and sustain business growth with a reasonable return on investment. This book presents virtually all critical IT technologies and techniques to discuss the interdependencies that need to be supported to enable a dynamic, energy-efficient, economical, and environmentally-friendly green IT data center. This is a path that every organization must ultimately follow.

Take a tour of the Green and Virtual Data Center website.

Buy now!]]> 2011-06-09 11:37:23 http://www.greenitstrategy.com/index.php?option=com_booklibrary&Itemid=0&task=view&id=16&catid=86 Authors: Ron Pernick, Clint Wilder
ISBN: 006089623X
Publisher: HarperBusiness
Publication date: 2011-06-09 11:37:19
Language: English
Price: Does not exist

Product Description
Around the world, renewable energy and other clean energy, transportation, water, and materials technologies are now moving solidly into the mainstream, affecting millions of lives. Long considered the "alternative" province of altruistic environmentalists and scientists on research grants, clean tech has emerged as an increasingly lucrative business. In fact, at a time when we face increased challenges from high energy prices, record deficits, and global security challenges, clean tech promises to be the next big engine of economic growth.In "The Clean Tech Revolution", authors Ron Pernick and Clint Wilder uncover how businesses, investors, and individuals stand to profit from the next wave of clean tech innovation. They show how clean technologies - everything from the familiar solar energy and hybrid electric cars to the more obscure cellulose-based ethanol and ultraviolet-based water purification - have opened up unprecedented opportunities for wealth creation, high-growth career development, and innovative solutions to a range of global problems. A groundbreaking, must-read book for those looking to understand and profit from the clean technologies that are reshaping our fast-changing world.

Buy now!]]> 2011-06-09 11:37:19 http://www.greenitstrategy.com/index.php?option=com_booklibrary&Itemid=0&task=view&id=1&catid=86 Authors: Toby Velte, Anthony Velte, Robert Elsenpeter
ISBN: 0071599231
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
Publication date: 2011-06-09 11:32:25
Language: English
Price: 18.77

Product Description

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

This guide is packed with cost-saving ways to make your company a leader in green technology. The book is also packed with case studies from organizations that have gone green, so you can benefit from their experience. You’ll discover how to:

• Perform an energy audit to determine your present consumption and identify where to start greening
• Develop and roll out a green technology project
• Build support from management and employees
• Use collaboration tools to limit the need for corporate travel
• Improve electronic document management
• Extend hardware life, reduce data center floor space, and improve efficiency
• Formalize best practices for green IT, understand your company’s requirements, and design an infrastructure to meet them
• Make older desktops and lighting fixtures more efficient with a few small upgrades
• Lower costs with virtual meetings, teleconferences, and telecommuting options
• Reduce your organization’s energy consumption

You’ll also learn what to beware of when developing your green plan, and get familiar with all the terms relating to green IT. Green IT For Dummies starts you on the road to saving money while you help save the planet.

Buy now!]]> 2011-06-09 11:32:23 http://www.greenitstrategy.com/index.php?option=com_booklibrary&Itemid=0&task=view&id=65&catid=86 Authors: Lawrence Webber, Michael Wallace
ISBN: 081441446X
Publisher: AMACOM
Publication date: 2011-06-09 11:32:13
Language: English
Price: 19.57

Product Description
With today's electronic systems consuming massive amounts of energy, and improper disposal of old equipment threatening to release dangerous toxicity into the atmosphere, any company whose IT department isn't actively working to shrink its carbon footprint isn't just hurting the environment...it is also probably wasting money. "Green Tech" provides readers with practical, easily implemented strategies for sustainable computing.

Buy now!]]> 2011-06-09 11:32:13 http://www.greenitstrategy.com/index.php?option=com_booklibrary&Itemid=0&task=view&id=68&catid=86 Authors: Bill Tomlinson
ISBN: 0262013932
Publisher: The MIT Press
Publication date: 2011-06-09 11:32:12
Language: English
Price: 16.47

Product Description

How the tools of information technology can support environmental sustainability by tackling problems that span broad scales of time, space, and complexity.

“This book comprehensively discusses design considerations for the truly energy efficient data center.”

Scott Davis, Chief Data Center Architect, Office of the CTO, VMware, Inc.

This Book Isn’t About “Evangelizing” Green It:

It’s About Getting Down in the Trenches and Making It Work

In Foundations of Green IT, a team of leading Green IT consultants presents the detailed technical information data center professionals need to systematically identify the right improvements, implement them, maximize savings, and accurately calculate business value.

Marty Poniatowski and his team present comprehensive case studies reflecting their unsurpassed Green IT experience, complete with detailed implementation diagrams and performance information. You’ll find independent, detailed coverage of solutions from HP, VMware, EMC, Cisco, and other leading vendors, with optimized sample designs and realistic ROI projections. Whether you’re a CIO or IT director, architect or administrator, if you want to improve IT efficiency, this is your definitive resource.

Three comprehensive, start-to-finish case studies 

Analyze current environments, set goals, define implementation plans, and calculate ROI for: 

• Server and desktop consolidation and virtualization

• Data center backup/recovery/archiving, including replication

• Networking, including VoIP background

Plus practical coverage of these Green IT topics: 

• Designing data centers for greater efficiency and lower power usage

• Leveraging cloud computing

• Consolidating Microsoft SQL Server instances

• Reducing PC-related power usage and waste

About CDI, the company behind this book: 

This book was written collaboratively by many CDI technical experts, led by Marty Poniatowski. CDI is an infrastructure services firm with practices focusing on virtualization, storage, networking, data center design, and other ”green” services. It has clients in all industries, notably financial services, pharmaceuticals, and healthcare.

Get on board the green machine! Green home computing means making the right technology choice for the environment, whether it be a Windows-based or Mac-based computer and all the peripherals. In addition, it means learning how to properly and safely dispose of those items and how to use your computer to create a greener life at home and at work.

Computer expert Woody Leonhard and green living guru Katherine Murray introduce you to the many green products that exist in the world of technology, including eco-friendly desktops, laptops, and servers; energy-efficient peripherals; and the numerous Web sites that offer advice on how to go green in nearly every aspect of your life.

• Bestselling author Woody Leonhard and green living guru Katherine Murray show you how to make your computer more eco-friendly
• Discusses buying a green computer and choosing eco-friendly peripherals
• Discover ways to manage your power with software and servers
• Provides helpful explanations that decipher how to understand your computer's power consumption

With this invaluable insight, you'll discover that it actually is easy being green!

Buy now!]]> 2011-06-09 11:31:16 http://www.greenitstrategy.com/index.php?option=com_booklibrary&Itemid=0&task=view&id=66&catid=86 Authors: Joe Hutsko
ISBN: 0470469145
Publisher: For Dummies
Publication date: 2011-06-09 11:31:15
Language: English
Price: 5.11

Product Description
Save some green by going green with these environmentally friendly gadgets!

With concern for the future of our environment growing stronger and more serious every day, there has never been a better time to take a new approach to some of the most popular gizmos and gadgets on the market and learn how you can convernt to electronics that have minimal environmental impact.

Green gadgets encompass everything from iPods to energy-efficient home entertainment devices to solar laptop chargers and crank-powered gizmos. This helpful resource explains how to research green gadgets, make a smart purchasing decision, use products you already own in a more environmentally friendly way, and say goodbye to electronics that zap both energy and money.

• Explore the environmental and financial benefits of green gadgets with this friendly reference
• Discusses which gadgets save energy-and which ones create energy
• Learn ways to offset your carbon footprint when you can't reduce consumption
• Get tips for understanding products labels and avoiding "greenwash"
• Discover how to calculate the energy and money your gadgets consume

Get moving and start living green with this informative guide to environmentally and wallet-friendly gadgets!

Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.

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ISBN: 1402016794
Publisher: Springer
Publication date: 2011-06-09 11:09:48
Language: English
Price: Does not exist

Product Description
Personal computers have made life convenient in many ways, but what about their impacts on the environment due to production, use and disposal? Manufacturing computers requires prodigious quantities of fossil fuels, toxic chemicals and water. Rapid improvements in performance mean we often buy a new machine every 1-3 years, which adds up to mountains of waste computers. How should societies respond to manage these environmental impacts?
This volume addresses the environmental impacts and management of computers through a set of analyses on issues ranging from environmental assessment, technologies for recycling, consumer behaviour, strategies of computer manufacturing firms, and government policies. One conclusion is that extending the lifespan of computers (e.g. through reselling) is an environmentally and economically effective strategy that deserves more attention from governments, firms and the general public.

Buy now!]]> 2011-06-09 11:09:48 http://www.greenitstrategy.com/index.php?option=com_booklibrary&Itemid=0&task=view&id=6&catid=86 Authors: Michael Braungart
ISBN: 0865475873
Publisher: North Point Press
Publication date: 2011-06-09 11:09:46
Language: English
Price: 15.80

Product Description

In recent years, socio-political trends toward environmental responsibility and the pressing need to reduce Run-the-Engine (RTE) costs have resulted in the concept of Green IT. Although a significant amount of energy is used to operate routing, switching, and transmission equipment, comparatively less attention has been paid to Green Networking. A clear and concise introduction to green networks and green network operations, Designing Green Networks guides you through the techniques available to achieve efficiency goals for corporate and carrier networks, including deploying more efficient hardware, blade form-factor routers and switches, and pursuing consolidation, virtualization, and network and cloud computing.

The book:

• Delineates techniques to minimize network power, cooling, floor space, and online storage while optimizing service performance, capacity, and availability
• Discusses virtualization, network computing, and Web services as approaches for green data centers and networks
• Emphasizes best practices and compliance with international standards for green operations
• Extends the green data center techniques to the networking environment
• Incorporates green principles in the intranet, extranet, and the entire IT infrastructures
• Reviews networking, power management, HVAC and CRAC basics
• Presents methodical steps toward a seamless migration to Green IT and Green Networking

The authors present methods to reduce computer energy consumption by means of a better usage of a specific set of resources and maximizing the efficiency of the running applications. The processor frequency is adjusted to the needs of the running job, leading to a power drop by a factor of 2 and doubling battery life time of laptops. It is shown how computer resources can be optimally adapted to application needs, reducing job run time. Examples on how to optimize algorithms on single node and parallel RISC architectures are discussed. The job-related data are stored and reused to help computer managers to replace machines.

Grow a Greener Data Center

A guide to building and operating energy-efficient,
ecologically sensitive IT and Facilities infrastructure

Conventional Data Centers can have a huge impact upon the environment, using massive amounts of energy and water, emitting pollutants, and discarding huge quantities of machine waste. Their insatiable demand for energy and often inefficient designs make Data Centers expensive to operate and prime targets for future environmental regulation.

Fortunately, it’s now possible to design a Data Center that consumes fewer resources, costs less money to run, has a longer usable lifespan, and can even highlight a company’s social responsibility. Grow a Greener Data Center shows how.

Douglas Alger makes the business case for greening Data Centers and presents technologies, design strategies, and operational approaches to help any company improve the energy efficiency and “eco-friendliness” of their IT hosting environments. He provides multiple strategies for “greening” each phase of a new Data Center project–selecting a site, designing and building the facility, and choosing hardware–as well as tips for retrofitting an existing server environment.

Alger explores IT and facilities technology areas as well as broader green building practices, including building material selection, electrical system design, use of alternative energy, cooling system design, cabling media choices, fire suppression options, water conservation practices, landscaping strategies, recycling programs, e-waste management, and more.

• Explores how to green each phase of your Data Center project including site selection, physical design, construction, and hardware selection
• Offers green strategies for all Data Center technologies including power, cooling, cabling, fire suppression, and virtualization
• Presents IT and facilities design (and retrofitting) strategies that can save hundreds of thousands of dollars per year in energy costs
• Reveals financial incentive programs to help pay for green Data Center initiatives
• Outlines Data Center efficiency metrics and environmental building assessment systems used worldwide to rate how green a facility is
• Highlights the lessons of dozens of case studies and real-world installations pertaining to energy efficiency, green building projects, and Data Center technologies
• Addresses broader green business practices including proper e-waste disposal, water conservation, and fostering alternative transportation

Related Title:

Build the Best Data Center Facility for Your Business

ISBN-10: 1-58705-182-6
ISBN-13: 978-1-58705-182-1

Category: Data Center

Covers: Green IT

Functioning as a complete guide to green strategies, this book includes all of the facts that managers and CIOs need to know in order to create a Green IT strategy. Provided are the tools and strategies necessary for making cost effective decisions that minimize the impact on the environment for new and existing facilities. It showcases 13 initiatives and provides a checklist for managers looking to transition to greener IT management. These adaptive strategies are explored focusing on the reasons to implement, business impact, and cost and benefit to the enterprise. Finally, the book proposes future strategies that IT managers will be expected to follow in coming years.