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Velte, Toby; Velte, Anthony; and Elsenpeter, Robert. Green IT: Reduce Your Information System's Environmental Impact While Adding to the Bottom Line. US: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media, 2008.

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

Authors: Toby Velte, Anthony Velte and Robert Elsenpeter

Published:  September 2008

eISBN: 9780071599245 007159924X | ISBN: 9780071599238
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  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Part I: Trends and Reasons to Go Green
  • 1 Overview and Issues
  • Problems
  • Your Company’s Carbon Footprint
  • Cost Savings
  • 2 Current Initiatives and Standards
  • Global Initiatives
  • North America
  • Australia
  • Europe
  • Asia
  • Part II: Consumption Issues
  • 3 Minimizing Power Usage
  • Power Problems
  • Monitoring Power Usage
  • Reducing Power Use
  • Low-Power Computers
  • Components
  • 4 Cooling
  • Cooling Costs
  • Reducing Cooling Costs
  • Optimizing Airflow
  • Adding Cooling
  • Datacenter Design
  • Part III: What You Can Do
  • 5 Changing the Way We Work
  • Rethinking Old Behaviors
  • Steps
  • Teleworkers and Outsourcing
  • 6 Going Paperless
  • Paper Problems
  • Paper and Your Office
  • Going Paperless
  • Intranets
  • Electronic Data Interchange (EDI)
  • 7 Recycling
  • Problems
  • Means of Disposal
  • Life Cycle
  • Recycling Companies
  • Hard Drive Recycling
  • CDs and DVDs
  • 8 Hardware Considerations
  • Certification Programs
  • Energy Star
  • Servers
  • Hardware Considerations
  • Remote Desktop
  • In Practice
  • Part IV: Case Studies
  • 9 Technology Businesses
  • Dell
  • Hewlett-Packard
  • Rackspace
  • 10 Other Organizations
  • University of Wisconsin–River Falls
  • Wal-Mart
  • Part V: The Greening Process
  • 11 Datacenter Design and Redesign
  • Energy Consumption
  • Design
  • Upgrading to Energy-Efficient Servers
  • Server Consolidation
  • Cabling Considerations
  • Power Supplies
  • 12 Virtualization
  • Server Virtualization
  • Server Virtualization Solutions
  • Implementation
  • Storage Virtualization
  • Virtualization Types
  • Storage Virtualization Solutions
  • Savings
  • Bonus Savings
  • 13 Greening Your Information Systems
  • Initial Improvement Calculations
  • Change Business Processes
  • Improve Technology Infrastructure
  • 14 Staying Green
  • Organizational Checkups
  • Equipment Checkups
  • Certifications
  • Helpful Organizations
  • Index