Green Information Technology: A Sustainable Approach

We are living in the era of "Big Data" and the computing power required to deal with "Big Data" both in terms of its energy consumption and technical complexity is one of the key areas of research and development. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency estimates that centralized computing infrastructures (data centres) currently use 7 giga watts of electricity during peak loads. This translates into about 61 billion kilowatt hours of electricity used. By the EPA’s estimates, power-hungry data centres consume the annual output of 15 average-sized power plants. One of the top constraints to increasing computing power, besides the ability to cool, is simply delivering enough power to a given physical space.

Green Information Technology: A Sustainable Approach offers in a single volume a broad collection of practical techniques and methodologies for designing, building and implementing a green technology strategy in any large enterprise environment, which up until now has been scattered in difficult-to-find scholarly resources. Included here is the latest information on emerging technologies and their environmental impact, how to effectively measure sustainability, discussions on sustainable hardware and software design, as well as how to use big data and cloud computing to drive efficiencies and establish a framework for sustainability in the information technology infrastructure.

Written by recognized experts in both academia and industry, Green Information Technology: A Sustainable Approach is a must-have guide for researchers, computer architects, computer engineers and IT professionals with an interest in greater efficiency with less environmental impact.

Introduces the concept of using green procurement and supply chain programs in the IT infrastructure.Discusses how to use big data to drive efficiencies and establish a framework for sustainability in the information technology infrastructure.Explains how cloud computing can be used to consolidate corporate IT environments using large-scale shared infrastructure reducing the overall environmental impact and unlocking new efficiencies.Provides specific use cases for Green IT such as data center energy efficiency and cloud computing sustainability and risk.

Section 1 - Green IT: Emerging Technologies and Challenges
Chapter 1 – Green ICT: History, Agenda and Challenges Ahead
Mohammad Dastbaz
Chapter 2 – Emerging Technologies and their Environmental Impact
Colin Pattinson
Section 2 - Green IT: Law and Measurement
Chapter 3 - Measurements and Sustainability
Eric Rondeau, Francis Lepage, Jean-Philippe Georges, Gérard Morel
Chapter 4 - The Law of Green IT
Eva Julia Lohse, Erlangen-Nürnberg
Chapter 5 - Quantitative and Systemic Methods for Modelling Sustainability
Amin Hosseinian-Far, Hamid Jahankhani
Section 3 - Sustainable Computing,  Cloud and Big Data
Chapter 6- Sustainable Cloud Computing
Konstantinos Domdouzis
Chapter 7: Sustainable Software Design
Michael Engel
Chapter 8 - Achieving the green theme through the use of traffic characterisation in data centres
Kiran Voderhobli
Section 4 - Future Solutions
Chapter 9 - Energy Harvesting and the Internet of Things
Christian DeFeo
Chapter 10 - 3D Printing and Sustainable Product Development (Factory 2.0)
Wilkinson and Cope
Section 5 – Case Studies
Chapter 11 - Automated Demand Response, Smart Grid Technologies and Sustainable Energy Solutions
Azad Camyab
Chapter 12 - Critical Issues for Data Center Energy Efficiency
Pattinson, C., Kor, A. L., and Cross, R.
Chapter 13 - Community Wide Area Network and Mobile ISP
Pattinson, C., Kor, A. L., and Braddock, R.
Chapter 14 – Thin-client and Energy Efficiency
Pattinson, C., Cross, R., and Kor, A. L.
Chapter 15 – Cloud Computing, Sustainability and Risk
Babak Akhgar, Ashkan Tafaghodi, Konstantinos Domdouzis