Green IT: Managing Your Carbon Footprint

  • 1h 19m
  • BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT
  • BCS
  • 2012

This book looks at how to incorporate green IT into your business strategy.

New legislation, rising energy costs and increasing demand for green credentials have moved sustainable IT up the business agenda.

Yet the term ‘green IT’ still means a variety of things to a variety of people - whether that’s sustainably managing and procuring IT assets, ethically recycling hardware or using IT to enable carbon footprint reduction.

This book looks at these different aspects and offers advice on how to incorporate sustainable practices in business strategy.

In this Book

  • Green IT—Managing Your Carbon Footprint
  • Foreword
  • Green IT As A Business Strategy
  • Cloud Computing, BPM and Going Green
  • Blueprint for Green IT
  • Accounting for Carbon in Your Green IT Strategy
  • Where There’s Muck There’s Money
  • Making Savings
  • Need More Capacity?
  • Beating the Storage Beast
  • Making Data Centres Greener
  • Green Procurement – Guidelines for Buyers
  • Destination Landfill
  • WEEE Regulations
  • Recasting WEEE
  • The Impact of Hardware
  • Green IT Best Practice
  • Resources
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