Green IT strategies and applications : using environmental intelligence / Bhuvan Unhelkar.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Unhelkar, Bhuvan, author.

Series:

Advanced & Emerging Communications Technologies

Advanced and emerging communications technologies series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Data processing service centers--Energy conservation.

Data processing service centers.

Data processing service centers--Environmental aspects.

Green technology.

Information technology--Environmental aspects.

Information technology.

Social responsibility of business.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (470 p.)

Place of Publication:

Boca Raton, Fla. : CRC Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Bhuvan Unhelkar takes you on an all-encompassing voyage of environmental sustainability and Green IT. Sharing invaluable insights gained during two battle-tested decades in the information and communication technologies industry, he provides a comprehensive examination of the wide-ranging aspects of Green IT-from switching-off monitors, virtualizing data centers, and optimizing processes to bringing attitude change through training and the use of green metrics for reporting. Combining extensive research, literature review experimentation, and decades of practical consulting ex

Contents:

Front Cover; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Readers; Mapping to a Workshop; Contents and Chapter Summaries; Language; Acknowledgments; Author; Chapter 1: Green IT Fundamentals: Business, IT, and the Environment; Chapter 2: Green IT Strategies: Drivers, Dimensions, and Goals; Chapter 3: Environmentally Responsible Business: Policies, Practices, and Metrics; Chapter 4: Green Assets: Buildings, Data Centers, Networks, and Devices; Chapter 5: Green Business Process Management: Modeling, Optimization, and Collaboration

Chapter 6: Green Enterprise Architecture, Environmental Intelligence, and Green Supply ChainsChapter 7: Green Information Systems: Design and Development Models; Chapter 8: Sociocultural Aspects of Green IT; Chapter 9: Green Enterprise Transformation Roadmap; Chapter 10: Green Compliance: Protocols, Standards, and Audits; Chapter 11: Emergent Carbon Issues: Technologies and Future; Chapter 12: Case Study in Applying Green IT Strategies and Applications to a Hospital; Chapter 13: Case Study in Applying Green IT Strategies to the Packaging Industry

Chapter 14: Case Study in Applying Green IT Strategies and Applications to the Telecom SectorAppendix A: The Environmentally Responsible Business Strategies (ERBS) Research Project Survey; Appendix B: Case Study Scenarios for Trial Runs; Appendix C: Green IT Measurements from a CEMS; Abbreviations; Green Glossary; Back Cover

Notes:

An Auerbach book.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-429-10581-9

1-4665-0909-0

1-283-25747-5

9786613257475

1-4398-3781-3

9780429105814

OCLC:

749264960