Harnessing Green IT (PDF)

"Ultimately, this is a remarkable book, a practical
testimonial, and a comprehensive bibliography rolled into one. It
is a single, bright sword cut across the various murky green IT
topics. And if my mistakes and lessons learned through the green IT
journey are any indication, this book will be used every day by
folks interested in greening IT."

-- Simon Y. Liu, Ph.D. & Ed.D.,
Editor-in-Chief, IT Professional Magazine, IEEE
Computer Society, Director, U.S. National Agricultural
Library

This book presents a holistic perspective on Green IT by
discussing its various facets and showing how to strategically
embrace it

Harnessing Green IT: Principles and
Practices examines various ways of making computing and
information systems greener - environmentally sustainable -,
as well as several means of using Information Technology (IT) as a
tool and an enabler to improve the environmental sustainability.
The book focuses on both greening of IT and greening by IT -
complimentary approaches to attaining environmental sustainability.
In a single volume, it comprehensively covers several
key aspects of Green IT - green technologies, design, standards,
maturity models, strategies and adoption -, and presents a clear
approach to greening IT encompassing green use, green disposal,
green design, and green manufacturing. It also illustrates how to
strategically apply green IT in practice in several areas.

Key Features:

* Presents a comprehensive coverage of key topics of importance
and practical relevance - green technologies, design,
standards, maturity models, strategies and adoption

* Highlights several useful approaches to embracing green IT in
several areas

* Features chapters written by accomplished experts from industry
and academia who have first-hand knowledge and expertise in
specific areas of green IT

* Presents a set of review and discussion questions for each
chapter that will help the readers to examine and explore the green
IT domain further

* Includes a companion website providing resources for
further information and presentation slides

This book will be an invaluable resource for IT Professionals,
academics, students, researchers, project leaders/managers, IT
business executives, CIOs, CTOs and anyone interested in Green IT
and harnessing it to enhance our environment.