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

by Toby Velte, Anthony Velte, Robert C. Elsenpeter

Overview

• An estimated 400 million units of obsolete electronics are scrapped annually in the U.S.
• Virtualization can save an organization $560 annually in electricity costs per server; this books covers virtualization and other engery-saving techniques
• A green IT organization can reduce operation costs, increase employee retention, and improve brand image in the market place

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780071599245
Publisher:	McGraw Hill LLC
Publication date:	10/31/2008
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	350
File size:	5 MB

About the Author

Toby J. Velte, Ph.D., is an internationally bestsellingauthor of business technology articles and books. He is co-founder of Velte Publishing, Inc.

Anthony T. Velte is co-founder of Velte Publishing, Inc., and the co-author of several books, including Cisco: A Beginner's Guide with Toby Velte.

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

Table of Contents

Part I: Trends and Reasons to Go Green Chapter 1. Overview and Issues Chapter 2. Current Initiatives and Standards Part II: Consumption Issues Chapter 3. Minimizing power usage Chapter 4. Cooling Part III: What You Can Do Chapter 5. Changing the Way We Work Chapter 6. Going Paperless Chapter 7. Recycling Chapter 8. Hardware Considerations Part IV: Case Studies Chapter 9. Technology Businesses Chapter 10. Other Organizations Part V: The Greening Process Chapter 11. Datacenter Design and Redesign Chapter 12. Virtualization Chapter 13. Greening Your Information Systems Chapter 14. Staying Green