Chapter 4. Design to Disposal – Some Issues to Consider
This chapter examines each stage of the design–procure–use–dispose lifecycle in turn and gives for each one a few brief examples of Green IT issues and considerations. I’ve concentrated for this chapter on elements of Green IT not covered elsewhere in the book. For example, virtualisation technologies aren’t covered here under ‘use’ because they merit a whole chapter later in the book.
Design – ‘coding green’
Programmers who have been around since the early days of corporate IT are sometimes heard to lament that we’ve lost the discipline of efficient coding. It was necessary back then to inventively squeeze as much processing into as few program instructions and as little storage space as possible. ...
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