The Green and Virtual Data Center - Enabling Efficient, Effective, Productive Green IT and Computing

Click here to learn about the new book "The Green and Virtual Data Center" (Auerbach) for enabling efficient and Green IT data centers covering servers, storage, networks, software, facilities and associated management topics, technologies and techniques. This new authoritative book by industry veteran analyst and author Greg Schulz is the definitive guide for enabling economic efficiency and ecologically friendly Green IT computing and next generation data center strategies that looks at issues and solutions from a technology and business sustainment perspective. Read the press release here. Order your copy now here.

Green hype and green washing may be on the endangered species list and going away, however, green IT for servers, storage, networks, facilities as well as related software and management techniques that address energy efficiency including power and cooling along with e-waste, environmental health and safety related issues are topics that wont be going away anytime soon. There is a growing green gap between green hype messaging or green washing and IT pain point issues including limits on availability or rising costs of power, cooling, floor-space as well as e-waste and environmental health and safety (PCFE). To close the gap will involve addressing green messaging and rhetoric closer to where IT organizations pain points are and where budget dollars exists that can address PCFE and other green related issues as a by-product.

The green gap will also be narrowed as awareness of broader green related topics coincide with IT data center pain points, in other words, alignment of messaging with IT issues that have or will have budget dollars allocated towards them to sustain business and economic growth via IT resource usage efficiency. [ Read more ]

(Video) The Other Green - Storage Efficiency and Optimization - Click here to view the video - June 2009

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