The Greening of IT: How Companies Can Make a Difference for the Environment [Paperback]

John Lamb (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 7, 2009 | ISBN-10: 0137150830 | ISBN-13: 978-0137150830 | Edition: 1

The Greening of IT offers clear, business-focused coverage of both the benefits and roadblocks of moving to green IT. Lamb discusses internal organizational obstacles, as well as regulations, energy cost shifts, and utility rate incentives that can help companies move towards green IT. You'll find specific how-to guidance on everything from measuring energy usage and optimizing data center cooling equipment through leveraging virtualization. Lamb also presents detailed, up-to-the minute green IT case studies - including utilities, universities, and companies of all sizes, worldwide. He concludes by previewing emerging trends in green IT and identifying "on the horizon" opportunities businesses should be monitoring and preparing for.

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About the Author

John Lamb is a Senior Technical Staff Member for IBM Global Business Services in Somers, New York. He is an IBM Senior Certified IT Architect, and he holds a B.A. degree from the University of Notre Dame and a Ph.D. in engineering science from the University of California at Berkeley. He is a senior member of the IEEE and ASME engineering societies. He has published more than 50 technical papers and articles and has coauthored four books, including Lotus Notes^®  and Domino^®  5: Scalable Network Design (McGraw-Hill, 1999) and IBM WebSphere^® and Lotus: Implementing Collaborative Solutions (Prentice-Hall, 2004).

Product Details

• Paperback: 352 pages
• Publisher: IBM Press; 1 edition (May 7, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0137150830
• ISBN-13: 978-0137150830
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.2 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #334,164 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

John Lamb is a Senior Certified IT Architect with IBM Global Services in New York. He has authored or co-authored numerous technical papers and articles and five books on computer technologies including the May 2009 book: "The Greening of IT: How Companies Can Make a Difference for the Environment." ISBN 0137150830 http://www.amazon.com/Greening-Companies-Make-Difference-Envionment/dp/0137150830 . John holds a Ph.D. in Engineering Science from the University of California at Berkeley and a BA from the University of Notre Dame. He can be reached at [e-mail].

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Greening of IT.. Why not?, June 19, 2009

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Umapathy C. Bhattar "IT Architect" (Johannesburg, SA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Greening of IT: How Companies Can Make a Difference for the Environment (Paperback)

Great Book. Great thinking. An eye opener for IT Industry & IT Professionals. Simple & easy to understand flow, which inspires.
I am an IT Professional working on a large project in South Africa, where energy is the major expense. This book elaborate on how companies can implement Green IT. Save Money and Save the Planet !!!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great overview of the benfits and challenges of greening IT, July 16, 2009

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Robert R. White (NC USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Greening of IT: How Companies Can Make a Difference for the Environment (Paperback)

Great book with real world case studies to reinforce the importance of the "Greening of IT".

It was easy to compare the thinking of current IT infrastructure to where IT infrastructure needs to go as there were plenty of tables or web links to illustrate the efficiencies gained using a greener approach. The main drawback to using external links is that they may not be available by the time the book is published. A website with updates would be a good idea - the free online edition is only a 45 day trial.

Some of the newer technologies made it into the book, but I did not see some of the others - for example Flywheel UPS (although flywheels have been around a long time). Fuel Cell backup power did rate a mention as an emerging technology.

Some more discussion on Computer Room efficiencies and the maximum limits of under floor cooling to handle the newer high density racks based on air flow limits would have been a good addition. This is certainly not a negative because there is only so much that you can cover in a general book.

A few illustrations were a little too small or did not have enough contrast for easy viewing in a black and white publication (example Fig. 11.3, and 11.4 which is a thermal camera image and better suited to color), but did not detract from the material being presented. I am assuming the choice of black and white was driven by the desire for a Kindle version, as well as the extra printing costs needed for color.

As mentioned a lot of external links to extra information were provided, and overall a great snapshot of the current thinking related to the Greening of IT. Naturally with the author being an IBM person there was good coverage of IBM technologies - but there was more than enough coverage of non-IBM solutions so this was not a problem. I recommend this book for both the technical and non-technical reader as the material worked at both levels.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Simple and Good, July 4, 2009

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Vin Sivasubramanian "vinoth18" (erie, pennsylvania United States) - See all my reviews
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This book the greening of IT is well written and presented for both the expert as well as the beginner. The case studies are all well written given a real world scenario of how IT greening is taking place , A lot of informative data and links are given which will provide further reference for the IT professional.