Series editors’ preface
We are extremely pleased to have Tony Bishop’s excellent, timely, and highly relevant book on datacenters as part of our 2009 list of publications in the Complete Technology Guides for Financial Services Series. Five trends in particular make the reinvention and streamlining of datacenters particularly relevant: (1) the credit crisis rippling across the globe has put a downward pressure on IT budgets; (2) the crisis has resulted in calls for more transparency and regulations that are embedded in IT controls; (3) energy efficiency has come to occupy top priority in the minds of governments, exemplified most strongly by President Obama’s emphasis on it during his campaign and fiscal stimulus package; (4) even as ...

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