Harnessing Green IT: Principles and Practices

This book presents a holistic perspective on Green IT by discussing its various facets and showing how to strategically embrace it

Harnessing Green IT: Principles and Practices examines various ways of making computing and information systems greener – environmentally sustainable - as well as several means of using Information Technology (IT) as a tool and an enabler to improve the environmental sustainability. The book focuses on both greening of IT and greening by IT – complimentary approaches to attaining environmental sustainability. In a single volume, it comprehensively covers several key aspects of Green IT - green technologies, design, standards, maturity models, strategies and adoption -, and presents a clear approach to greening IT encompassing green use, green disposal, green design, and green manufacturing. It also illustrates how to strategically apply green IT in practice in several areas.

Key Features:

• Presents a comprehensive coverage of key topics of importance and practical relevance - green technologies, design, standards, maturity models, strategies and adoption
• Highlights several useful approaches to embracing green IT in several areas
• Features chapters written by accomplished experts from industry and academia who have first-hand knowledge and expertise in specific areas of green IT
• Presents a set of review and discussion questions for each chapter that will help the readers to examine and explore the green IT domain further

This book will be an invaluable resource for IT Professionals, academics, students, researchers, project leaders/managers, IT business executives, CIOs, CTOs and anyone interested in Green IT and harnessing it to enhance our environment.

About the Editors

San Murugesan is Director of BRITE Professional Services and Adjunct Professor in the School of Computing and Mathematics at the University of Western Sydney, Australia. He is a Senior Consultant with the Data Insight & Social BI practice of Cutter Consortium, United States. He is also a corporate trainer and an independent IT and education consultant. He held various senior positions at the University of Western Sydney and Southern Cross University, both in Australia, and at Multimedia University in Malaysia. He also worked at the Indian Space Research Organisation, Bangalore, India. He has served as Senior Research Fellow of the US National Research Council at the NASA Ames Research Center, United States. In a career spanning over three decades in academia and industry, Dr Murugesan has led several innovative IT projects, provided leadership in teaching and research, and consulted to business, industry and educational institutions.

His work has focussed on the development, application and management of IT with expertise and interests spanning a range of areas, including green computing, cloud computing, Web 2.0 and 3.0, mobile computing applications, Web engineering, e-business and IT for emerging markets. He has over 150 publications which include journal and conference papers, executive reports, edited books, IEEE CS EssentialSets and e-mail advisories. He has developed and delivered professional certificate training programs on green IT and cloud computing. He serves as Associate Editor-in-Chief of IEEE's ITPro-fessional magazine and on the editorial boards of other international journals. He also edits and contributes to the IT in Emerging Markets Department of IT Professional. He is a Fellow of the Australian Computer Society, a Fellow of IETE, a Senior Member of IEEE and a distinguished visitor and tutorial speaker of the IEEE Computer Society.

G.R. Gangadharan currently serves as an Assistant Professor at the Institute for Development and Research in Banking Technology (IDRBT), Hyderabad, India. He has rich experience of working on several European Framework projects including COMPAS, GAMES, COCKPIT and WATTALYST. His areas of research interests include Internet technologies (service-oriented computing and cloud computing), green information systems and energy-efficient computing, information and communication technology (ICT) for emerging markets, free and open source systems (FOSS) and enterprise information systems. He has over 40 publications in international conference proceedings and journals. He is a member of IEEE. He holds a PhD in Information and Communication Technology from the University of Trento, Trento, Italy and the European University Association; an MS in Information Technology from Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa, Italy; and an MSc in Computer Science from Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, Tirunelveli, India.