Green IT For Dummies

The first guide to going green for IT leaders and business decision-makersGreen technology represents a breed of computing hardware and software capable of reining in the costly, environmentally unfriendly waste that businesses and organizations generate The only book on the market to focus exclusively on using green technology to help businesses improve their energy consumption and benefit the environment Discusses topics such as power-management software, servers and storage solutions, datacenter cooling, virtualization and consolidation technology, smart tools for managing lighting, collaboration tools to reduce the need for travel, and more This guide provides an overview of what green technology is, what problems it can (and can't) solve, and how businesses or organizations might go about planning and implementing green technology solutions Also demonstrates how green technology will benefit the business with lower energy costsCarol Baroudi (Waltham, MA) is a coauthor of Internet For Dummies (978-0-470-12174-0) and the first edition of Service-Oriented Architecture For Dummies (978-0-470-05435-2), as well as several custom For Dummies publications for IBM and HP.