Greening the Data Center: A Pocket Guide

PREFACE

IT organizations are under intense pressure to manage the power consumed by data centers and the resulting cooling demands. To address these needs, IT must properly blend people, processes and technology to create solutions.

In my first Green IT pocket guide, we reviewed governance and processes for Green IT. In this guide we will provide a sample of technical improvement opportunities at a high level. Our intent is to foster discussions in your own organization around what should be done first, second, third and so on. The result of this should be a technical implementation roadmap that supports the objectives of Green IT.

Indeed, most data centers will not suffer from a lack of opportunities to improve. What is needed is careful planning and deliberate execution to manage power and cooling while continuing to create and protect value for the organization.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

George Spafford is a Principal Consultant with Pepperweed Consulting, LLC and is an experienced practitioner in business and IT operations. He is a prolific author and speaker, has consulted and conducted training on regulatory compliance, IT Governance and process improvement in the US, Australia, New Zealand and China, and has co-authored The Visible Ops Handbook and Visible Ops Security.

George holds an MBA from the University of Notre Dame, a BA in Materials and Logistics Management from Michigan State University, and an honorary degree from Konan Daigaku in Japan. He is an ITIL® Service Manager, TOCICO Jonah and a Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA). George is a current member of the IIA, ISACA, ITPI, ITSMF, and the TOCICO.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

As always, I’d like to thank my family for all their support. If it wasn’t for them, I would never have survived writing two books back to back.

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