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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
About the Editors
About the Authors
Foreword
Preface
About the Book
Chapter Preview
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1: Green IT: An Overview
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Environmental Concerns and Sustainable Development
1.3 Environmental Impacts of IT
1.4 Green IT
1.5 Holistic Approach to Greening IT
1.6 Greening IT
1.7 Applying IT for Enhancing Environmental Sustainability
1.8 Green IT Standards and Eco-Labelling of IT
1.9 Enterprise Green IT Strategy
1.10 Green IT: Burden or Opportunity?
1.11 Conclusion
Chapter 2: Green Devices and Hardware
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Life Cycle of a Device or Hardware
2.3 Reuse, Recycle and Dispose
2.4 Conclusions
Chapter 3: Green Software
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Energy-Saving Software Techniques
3.3 Evaluating and Measuring Software Impact to Platform Power
3.4 Summary
3.5 Acknowledgements
Chapter 4: Sustainable Software Development
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Current Practices
4.3 Sustainable Software
4.4 Software Sustainability Attributes
4.5 Software Sustainability Metrics
4.6 Sustainable Software Methodology
4.7 Defining Actions
4.8 Case Study
4.9 Conclusions
Chapter 5: Green Data Centres
5.1 Data Centres and Associated Energy Challenges
5.2 Data Centre IT Infrastructure
5.3 Data Centre Facility Infrastructure: Implications for Energy Efficiency
5.4 IT Infrastructure Management
5.5 Green Data Centre Metrics
5.6 Data Centre Management Strategies: A Case Study
5.7 Conclusions
Chapter 6: Green Data Storage
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Storage Media Power Characteristics
6.3 Energy Management Techniques for Hard Disks
6.4 System-Level Energy Management
6.5 Summary and Research Areas
Chapter 7: Green Networks and Communications
7.1 Introduction
7.2 Objectives of Green Network Protocols
7.3 Green Network Protocols and Standards
7.4 Conclusions
7.5 Acknowledgements
Chapter 8: Enterprise Green IT Strategy
8.1 Introduction
8.2 Approaching Green IT Strategies
8.3 Business Drivers of Green IT Strategy
8.4 Business Dimensions for Green IT Transformation
8.5 Organizational Considerations in a Green IT Strategy
8.6 Steps in Developing a Green IT Strategy
8.7 Metrics and Measurements in Green Strategies
8.8 Conclusions
Chapter 9: Sustainable Information Systems and Green Metrics
9.1 Introduction
9.2 Multilevel Sustainable Information
9.3 Sustainability Hierarchy Models
9.4 Product Level Information
9.5 Individual Level Information
9.6 Functional Level Information
9.7 Organizational Level Information
9.8 Regional/City Level Information
9.9 Measuring the Maturity of Sustainable ICT
9.10 Conclusions
9.11 Appendix: Sustainability Tools and Standards
9.12 Acknowledgements
Chapter 10: Enterprise Green IT Readiness
10.1 Introduction
10.2 Background: Readiness and Capability
10.3 Development of the G-Readiness Framework
10.4 Measuring an Organization's G-Readiness
10.5 Conclusions
Chapter 11: Sustainable IT Services: Creating a Framework for Service Innovation
11.1 Introduction
11.2 Factors Driving the Development of Sustainable IT
11.3 Sustainable IT Services (SITS)
11.4 SITS Strategic Framework
11.5 Sustainable IT Roadmap
11.6 SITS Leadership and Best Practices
11.7 Conclusions
11.8 Summary
Chapter 12: Green Enterprises and the Role of IT
12.1 Introduction
12.2 Organizational and Enterprise Greening
12.3 Information Systems in Greening Enterprises
12.4 Greening the Enterprise: IT Usage and Hardware
12.5 Inter-organizational Enterprise Activities and Green Issues
12.6 Enablers and Making the Case for IT and the Green Enterprise
12.7 Conclusions
Chapter 13: Environmentally Aware Business Process Improvement in the Enterprise Context
13.1 Introduction
13.2 Identifying the Environmental Impact of an Activity or Process
13.3 A Decision Support Tool for Environmentally Aware Business Process Improvement
13.4 Process Improvement in the Enterprise Context
13.5 Impact and Change Propagation Analysis
13.6 Trade-Off Analysis
13.7 An Example
13.8 Conclusions
Chapter 14: Managing Green IT
14.1 Introduction
14.2 Strategizing Green Initiatives
14.3 Implementation of Green IT
14.4 Information Assurance
14.5 Communication and Social Media
14.6 Case Study
14.7 Summary
Chapter 15: Regulating Green IT: Laws, Standards and Protocols
15.1 Introduction
15.2 The Regulatory Environment and IT Manufacturers
15.3 Nonregulatory Government Initiatives
15.4 Industry Associations and Standards Bodies
15.5 Green Building Standards
15.6 Green Data Centres
15.7 Social Movements and Greenpeace
15.8 Conclusions
Chapter 16: Green Cloud Computing and Environmental Sustainability
16.1 Introduction
16.2 What is Cloud Computing?
16.3 Cloud Computing and Energy Usage Model: A Typical Example
16.4 Features of Clouds Enabling Green Computing
16.5 Towards Energy Efficiency of Cloud Computing
16.6 Green Cloud Architecture
16.7 Case Study: IaaS Provider
16.8 Conclusions and Future Directions
16.9 Acknowledgements
Chapter 17: Harnessing Semantic Web Technologies for the Environmental Sustainability of Production Systems
17.1 Introduction
17.2 Information Management for Environmental Sustainability
17.3 Ecosystem of Software Tools
17.4 Examples of Managing Data
17.5 Challenges and Guiding Principles
17.6 Conclusions
Chapter 18: Green IT: An Outlook
18.1 Introduction
18.2 Awareness to Implementation
18.3 Greening by IT
18.4 Green IT: A Megatrend?
18.5 A Seven-Step Approach to Creating Green IT Strategy
18.6 Research and Development Directions
18.7 Prospects
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