Harnessing Green IT: Principles and Practices

“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.

Table of Contents

1 Green IT: An Overview 1
2 Green Devices and Hardware 23
3 Green Software 39
4 Sustainable Software Development 63
5 Green Data Centres 85
6 Green Data Storage 113
7 Green Networks and Communications 127
8 Enterprise Green IT Strategy 149
9 Sustainable Information Systems and Green Metrics 167
10 Enterprise Green IT Readiness 199
11 Sustainable IT Services: Creating a Framework for Service Innovation 211
12 Green Enterprises and the Role of IT 243
13 Environmentally Aware Business Process Improvement in the Enterprise Context 265
14 Managing Green IT 283
15 Regulating Green IT: Laws, Standards and Protocols 297
16 Green Cloud Computing and Environmental Sustainability 315
17 Harnessing Semantic Web Technologies for the Environmental Sustainability of Production Systems 341
18 Green IT: An Outlook 365