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Green IT for Dummies®

Name: Green IT for Dummies®
ISBN: 9780470386880

by Carol Baroudi, Jeffrey Hill, Arnold Reinhold, Jhana Senxian

April 2009

Beginner to intermediate

382 pages

8h 57m

English

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Copyright
About the Author
Author's Acknowledgments
Publisher's Acknowledgments
Introduction
About This BookConventions Used in This BookFoolish AssumptionsHow This Book Is OrganizedPart I: Understanding the World of Green ITPart II: Getting a Running StartPart III: Greening the Data CenterPart IV: Greening the OfficePart V: Greening the OrganizationPart VI: The Part of TensAppendixIcons Used in This BookWhere to Go From Here
I. Understanding the World of Green IT
1. Win-Win Winning with Green IT
1.1. We're Talking to You1.2. Recognizing the Basic Green Concepts1.3. Green and IT — A Good Fit1.4. Embracing Trendy Hooey1.4.1. Looking beyond cost savings1.4.2. Getting the good will of partners, customers, and employees1.4.3. Focusing on the triple bottom line1.5. Greening the IT Ecosystem1.6. A Perfect Storm: Why Green IT Now1.6.1. Knowing the green business drivers1.6.2. Recognizing environmental drivers1.6.3. Feeling the governmental pressures1.6.3.1. Registration, Evaluation, Authorization, and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH)1.6.3.2. RoHS1.6.3.3. Cap and Trade Legislation1.7. Staying the Course: The Do's and One Don't of Going Green1.7.1. Do remember the big picture1.7.2. Do have a champion and a team leader1.7.3. Do measure so you can manage1.7.4. Do talk about it!1.7.5. Do remember the community1.7.6. Don't tell green lies!1.8. What to Green Now and Later1.8.1. Evaluating your starting point1.8.2. Communicating a can-do green attitude1.8.3. Greening office culture1.8.4. Plucking the low-hanging fruit1.8.5. Cultivating green education and communication1.8.6. Innovating through the supply chain
2. Making the Business Case for Green IT
2.1. Growing Policies for Change2.2. Profiting from Greener Practices2.2.1. Rising cost of electricity2.2.2. Lowering energy bills2.2.3. Containing IT2.2.4. Reducing paper and ink costs2.2.4.1. Electronic documents (and signatures) to the rescue2.2.4.2. Don't print that file2.2.4.3. Note it electronically2.2.5. Cutting down on travel expenses2.2.6. Collaborating over the Web2.3. Embracing Less Tangible (But Very Real) Benefits2.3.1. Closer integration of business divisions2.3.2. Optimized performance and cost effectiveness2.3.3. Enhanced employee attraction and retention2.3.4. Greater appeal to customers and business partners2.4. Conserving Natural Resources2.4.1. Shrinking landfills2.4.2. Controlling or avoiding landfills2.5. Balancing Your Consumption with Carbon Offsets2.6. Getting Ahead of the Regulations
3. Green Journeys in Action
3.1. Big Blue Goes Green3.1.1. Establishing the track record3.1.2. Keeping the commitment3.2. Twenty-Five Percent by 2012: Cisco Takes the Challenge3.3. RackForce Rents Green Machines3.4. Being Green On Line in Brazil
II. Getting a Running Start

4. Getting to Know the Standards and Metrics
4.1. Melding Emerging Standards with IT Practices4.1.1. Voluntary today; mandated tomorrow4.1.2. Taking continuous measurement4.2. Reviewing Established and Emerging Standards4.2.1. Leading the way with the EPA Energy Star4.2.1.1. Current end-user computer specifications4.2.1.2. Upcoming data center specifications4.2.1.3. Using Energy Star in your green decision making4.2.2. RoHS is rolling away the nasties4.2.3. WEEE wants waste winnowed4.2.4. ASHRAE CRACs down on overcooling4.2.5. EPEAT products won't deplete4.2.6. NEC sets the ground rules4.2.7. LEED leads to less loss4.2.8. SpecPower tackles servers4.2.9. EU Code of Conduct for Data Centers4.2.10. EPA and DOE partner for improved efficiency4.2.11. The Green Grid unites for green4.3. Advocacy Rating Organizations
5. Assessing Your Current Energy Use and Needs
5.1. Understanding Energy Jargon5.1.1. Powering up: Watts that all about?5.1.2. Checking out common units of measure5.1.3. Speaking electrical jargon5.2. Auditing Your Building for Energy Use5.2.1. Starting with your electric bill5.2.2. Checking your power meter5.2.3. Reconciling consumption with devices5.3. Considering Policy-Based Management5.4. Looking for Efficiencies5.4.1. Choosing an efficient chip configuration5.4.2. The un-cool cost of cooling5.4.3. Powering the chip5.4.4. Getting all the power you pay for5.4.5. Tapping into the smart grid5.4.6. Generating power more efficiently5.4.7. Peak-shaving to even loads and save money5.4.8. Reducing embedded energy5.5. Managing Energy's Waste: Carbon Reduction Options5.5.1. Understanding the carbon cycle5.5.2. Measuring carbon5.5.3. Traditional power sources and carbon5.5.3.1. Coal5.5.3.2. Natural gas5.5.3.3. Oil5.5.4. Buying carbon-free electricity5.5.4.1. Hydro5.5.4.2. Nuclear5.5.4.3. Biomass5.5.4.4. Wind5.5.4.5. Solar5.5.5. Balancing consumption with offsets
6. Go Green in 12 Months: Putting Together a Plan
6.1. Recognizing Your Mandate6.1.1. Where do you sit in your organization's power structure?6.1.2. Where does your organization stand on green concerns?6.1.3. Is IT management supportive of your green interests?6.1.4. Can IT coordinate its green plans with corporate efforts?6.2. Establishing a Baseline6.2.1. Figuring facility power usage6.2.2. Measuring IT power and equipment utilization6.2.3. Data centers consume (and expel) more than power6.2.4. Mapping the land mines6.3. Picking a Direction for Starting6.3.1. Chilling on cooling systems6.3.2. The virtue of virtualizing6.3.3. Configuring office desktops for sleep6.3.4. Eliminating unused or grossly underutilized resources6.3.5. Retiring hardware the green way6.3.6. Buying green6.3.7. Making them pay — or at least be aware6.3.8. New data center planning6.3.9. Spreading the word6.3.10. Looking at the larger organization6.4. Looking Beyond the One-Year Time Horizon
III. Greening the Data Center
7. Laying the Foundation for Green Data Management
7.1. Formalizing Best Practices for Green IT7.2. Understanding Information Lifecycle Management7.3. Using Tiered Storage Architecture7.4. Outsourcing: Going Greener with Hosted Data Center Services7.4.1. Storage for long-term (Tier 5) data7.4.2. Disaster recovery and business continuity (Tier 4) applications and data7.4.3. Data center replication7.4.4. Emergency notification services7.4.5. Co-locating data centers
8. Maximizing Data Center Efficiency
8.1. Choosing the Right Location8.1.1. Green power8.1.2. Free cooling8.1.3. Water power8.1.4. District cooling8.1.5. Waste heat recycling8.1.6. Energy storage possibilities8.1.7. Microclimate8.1.8. Brown field siting8.1.9. Global warming effects8.2. Planning Your Data Center for Green Efficiency8.2.1. Raised floors versus solid8.2.2. Variable speed drives8.2.3. Power distribution8.2.4. Holding up those servers8.2.5. Thermal density8.2.6. Buying performance per watt8.2.7. AC versus DC8.2.8. Assessing power supply efficiency8.2.9. Redundancy needs versus efficiency8.3. Consolidating the Physical Infrastructure8.3.1. Servers and storage8.3.2. Rack space and floor space8.4. Measuring and Maintaining Data Center Efficiency8.4.1. Power usage effectiveness (PUE)8.4.2. Data center Infrastructure Efficiency (DCiE)8.4.3. Power cost at the equipment rack8.4.4. Temperature and humidity8.4.5. Free cooling performance8.4.6. Average system life8.4.7. Green certifications
9. Racking Up Green Servers
9.1. It's Not Easy Being Green: Dissecting a Server's Core9.1.1. The anatomy of a server9.1.2. The search for greener servers9.2. Some Are Greener Than Others: Comparing Server Form Factors9.3. Serving Up Green Power with BladeServers9.4. Managing Servers for Energy Efficiency9.4.1. The complexity of measuring server "greenness"9.4.2. Achieving more precise measurement techniques9.4.3. MIPs and FLOPs: Understanding performance per watt9.4.4. Power-capping to cut waste
10. Cooling Your Data Center
10.1. Improving Data Center Cooling Takes Planning10.2. What Makes Your Data Center Hot?10.3. Understanding the Basics of Cooling Systems10.4. Benchmarking Your Cooling System's Efficiency10.5. Green Is Cool: Getting the Most Out of Your Cooling System10.5.1. Restyling your aisles10.5.2. Adding in-row cooling10.5.3. Getting your ducts in a row: Targeting airflow10.5.4. Plugging leaks10.5.5. Finding your hot spots10.5.6. Setting and maintaining the right temperature10.5.7. Free (almost) cooling10.5.8. Tapping into liquid cooling: The pros and cons10.5.9. Chilling at the heat source10.5.10. Reduce, reuse, recycle: Using waste heat
11. Building a Green Storage System
11.1. Exploring Green Storage Gear11.1.1. RAID Arrays: Necessary but not necessarily green11.1.2. Enlisting MAID for power savings11.2. Tackling Storage Sprawl11.2.1. Identifying contributors to storage sprawl11.2.2. Minimizing storage sprawl11.3. Cutting Fat, Part I: Data Deduplication11.4. Cutting Fat, Part II: Thin Provisioning11.4.1. Introducing how thin provisioning works11.4.2. Applying thin provisioning to your storage system11.5. Backing Up More with Less11.5.1. The basics of tape11.5.2. Alternatives to tape11.5.2.1. Hard drive11.5.2.2. Local network storage or public network (Internet) storage11.5.2.3. Blu-ray disc11.5.2.4. CD or DVD11.5.2.5. USB drive or flash drive11.5.2.6. Optical disc
12. Grooming the Network for Green
12.1. Power-Hungry Networks12.2. Greater, Greener Network Efficiency12.2.1. Wandering around with wireless12.2.2. Keeping your network consistent12.2.3. Doing more with less12.2.4. Power over Ethernet (PoE)12.3. Heading Toward a Greener Internet12.3.1. Optimizing with optical technology12.3.2. Creating an energy-efficient Ethernet12.4. Conserving Resources with Networks
13. Using Virtualization
13.1. Understanding Virtualization13.1.1. Virtual memory turns into virtualization13.1.2. Where's the green in virtualization?13.1.3. Three kinds of virtualization13.1.4. Consolidating applications on virtual servers13.2. Building a Virtual Infrastructure13.2.1. Understanding application requirements13.2.2. Hunting down underused servers13.2.3. Building virtual machines on target servers13.2.4. Testing the virtualized application13.2.5. Replacing physical servers with virtual servers13.2.5.1. Rev up the the virtual server13.2.5.2. Reuse or recycle the replaced server13.3. Enabling Virtual Disaster Recovery13.3.1. Exploring the financial and green benefits13.3.2. Replacing physical tape with virtual tape
IV. Greening the Office
14. Moving to Green Screens and Computing Machines
14.1. Computer Purchasing Policies14.1.1. Adding green ideas to bulk purchasing14.1.2. Greening decentralized purchasing14.1.3. Making standards matter14.1.4. Going green with what you have14.1.5. Lengthening machine life with Linux14.2. Embracing Energy Efficiency14.2.1. How do computers consume power?14.2.2. Wishing on Energy Star14.3. Looking Beyond the Star14.4. Finding Green Desktop Machines14.4.1. Sifting through Energy Star's Web site14.4.2. Diving into the EPEAT registry14.4.3. Tapping the source14.5. Finding Greener Monitors
15. Reducing Desktop Energy Waste
15.1. Reducing Current Consumption (Pun Intended)15.2. Saving Energy While You Sleep15.2.1. Waking up alert15.2.2. Automating sleep15.2.3. Using software to manage sleep habits15.2.4. Avoiding troubled sleep15.2.5. Letting sleeping Macs lie15.2.6. Disk encryption never sleeps15.3. Figuring the Energy Consumed by Physical Desktop Computing15.4. Reducing Consumption through Desktop Virtualization15.4.1. Comparing terminals, stateless clients, and thin clients to PCs15.4.2. Using terminal server, RDP, and remote desktops15.5. Utilizing Desktops on a Flash Drive
16. Pursuing the Less-Paper Office
16.1. Choosing Printers, Paper, and Ink16.1.1. Checking out printer specs16.1.2. Considering ink and toner16.1.3. Print, fax, fold, spindle, and mutilate: The multifunction device16.1.4. Buying based on your needs16.1.5. Picking greener paper16.2. Changing Printing Habits16.2.1. Inconvenient printing16.2.2. Defaulting to duplex16.2.3. Presenting PowerPoints without printouts16.3. Switching to Digital Documents16.3.1. Handling contracts with digital signatures16.3.2. Improving data security16.3.3. Putting the E in forms16.3.4. Scanning to reduce facilities costs and labor
17. Evaluating Green Gadgetry
17.1. Powering Gadgets Intelligently17.1.1. Considering green chargers17.1.2. Using rechargeable batteries17.1.3. Recycling batteries17.1.4. Powering gadgets off-grid17.2. Computing Green on the Go17.2.1. Advantages of laptops17.2.2. Getting by with less17.2.3. Netbooks versus laptops17.2.4. Smartphones catch up17.2.5. Off-grid computing17.3. Greening the Data Center with Gadgets17.3.1. On-site power generation17.3.1.1. Solar roof17.3.1.2. Small wind turbines17.3.1.3. Roof-mounted wind turbines — maybe not17.3.2. Passive solar17.3.3. Smart power strips17.4. Grabbing Greening Tools17.4.1. Thermometers17.4.2. Humidity gauge17.4.3. Power meters17.4.4. Data loggers17.4.5. Infrared cameras17.4.6. Diffraction gratings
V. Greening the Organization
18. Greening the Facility
18.1. Lighting for Less18.1.1. Lowering lighting's energy consumption18.1.2. Upgrading ballasts18.1.3. Lighting the way out with LED exit signs18.1.4. Choosing green switches18.1.5. Letting the sun shine in18.1.6. Less is more18.2. Landscaping the Sustainable Way18.3. Improving the Indoor Environment18.3.1. Setting the thermostat18.3.2. Supplementing heat with solar18.3.3. Minding indoor air and water quality18.4. Recycling throughout the Office18.4.1. Reducing and recycling water18.4.2. Buying green18.5. Using Greener Facilities Management and Security Systems
19. e-Waste Not, e-Want Not
19.1. Buying Wisely19.2. Knowing What You've Got19.3. Extending Lifecycles19.3.1. Reassigning old equipment to new tasks19.3.2. Donating machines to worthy causes19.3.3. Reselling systems for profit19.4. Recycling Safely and Legally19.4.1. Taking advantage of take-backs19.4.2. Finding a green recycler19.4.3. Making a difference one person at a time19.4.4. Protecting people who do the recycling19.5. Disposing Safely and Legally19.5.1. Batteries19.5.2. Employee equipment19.6. Data Security and Recycling19.6.1. iPods, thumb drives19.6.2. Making diskless machines usable19.6.3. Dealing with dead drives19.6.4. Destroying disk drives19.6.5. Sanitizing laptops and other portable devices19.6.5.1. Laptop security concerns19.6.5.2. Disposing of all those other little gizmos
20. Virtually There: Collaboration Technologies for a Greener World
20.1. Virtually Yours20.2. Collaborating for Fun and Profit20.2.1. Ever-ready e-mail20.2.2. Secure/managed file transfer20.2.3. Web conferencing, WebEx, GoTo Meeting and Unyte20.2.4. Unified communications20.2.5. Vidddeeeoooo cccconnffffeerrrennnnnciiinnngg20.2.6. Green document management20.2.7. Tools in the cloud20.2.8. Twitterific20.2.9. Auspicious avatars20.2.10. Getting on board your social network20.3. Transcendental Telecommuting20.3.1. Discovering telework20.3.2. Knowing the tricks of the trade20.3.2.1. Stay connected20.3.2.2. Fully equip the remote employee20.3.2.3. Make meetings count20.3.2.4. Make good use of office space20.4. Coveting Telepresence
VI. The Part of Tens
21. Ten Organizations That Can Help with Green IT Objectives
21.1. Thinking and Planning Green21.1.1. Alliance to Save Energy (ASE)21.1.2. The Green Grid21.1.3. The American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE)21.1.4. The Global e-Sustainability Initiative (GeSI)21.1.5. NetRegs21.2. Buying Green21.2.1. Climate Savers21.2.2. Energy Star21.2.3. Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition (SVTC)21.3. Disposing Responsibly21.3.1. The Electronics TakeBack Coalition21.3.2. International Association of Electronics Recyclers (IAER)21.3.3. Tech Soup Global21.3.4. The Basel Action Network (BAN)
22. Ten Creative Computer Recycling Tips
22.1. Plan for Reuse22.2. Set Up an Equipment Exchange Site on Your Intranet22.3. Load Linux on Older PCs22.4. Use Knoppix22.5. Make Some Hot Carts22.6. Use Old PCs for Bulletin Boards and Kiosks22.7. Build an Old Media Center22.8. Offer Older Computers to Employees22.9. Equip a Disaster Recovery Center22.10. Start a Computer Recycling Club22.11. Run a Tag Sale22.12. Find a Green Disposal Path for Equipment You Can't Reuse
23. Ten Tips for a Green Home Office
23.1. Buy Only What You Need23.2. Corral Power Adaptors23.3. Enable Power Management23.4. Set Up for Natural Lighting23.5. Use Energy Efficient Lighting23.6. Try Solar Power23.7. Manage the Shades23.8. Buy Recycled Products23.9. Save Good Printing Scrap23.10. Dispose Old Equipment Properly23.11. Make Your Home Green
A. Consumption and Savings Worksheets
A.1. Establishing a BaselineA.1.1. Floor spaceA.1.2. IT equipmentA.1.3. Utility meterA.1.4. Power cost per kWh (kilowatt-hour)A.1.5. Chiller capacityA.2. Data Center Conditions Log SheetA.2.1.A.2.1.1. PerimeterA.2.1.2. CRAC set pointsA.2.1.3. Outdoor conditionsA.2.1.4. Computer room temperature distribution surveyA.3. Calculating Facility Power from Two Meter ReadingsA.4. Estimating IT Power ConsumptionA.4.1. Server unitsA.4.2. Storage unitsA.4.3. Miscellaneous equipmentA.5. Calculating PUE and DCiEA.6. PUE ScoringA.7. Quickie Watts ConsumptionA.8. Data Center Green Report Card

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