Green IT Resources

Minimizing the organization's impact on the environment is a noble and moral initiative. IT can help functional areas reduce their carbon footprints while also undertaking initiatives to reduce what IT is directly contributing to in terms of energy consumption and eWaste.

During the course of research, the following resources have been identified and are recommended.

SGC Webinars

Please visit the webinars page. There are two presentations dated 7/9/2008 and 7/30/2008 that discuss Green IT mainly as it relates to energy consumption.

The News

SGC publishes a newsletter approximately once a week that covers issues surrounding global warming, energy and green IT. Subscription information and past archives can be found by clicking here.

External Resources

The following are highly recommended starting points.

• Mike Ebbers, Alvin Galea, Marc Tu Duy Khiem, and Michael Schaefer. “The Green Data Center – Steps for the Journey” RedPaper Draft (June 2, 2008 Draft)
  http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/redp4413.html
  [ Excellent high level review! ]
• High Performance Data Centers: A Design Guidelines Source Book
  http://hightech.lbl.gov/documents/DATA_CENTERS/06_DataCenters-PGE.pdf 
  [ Excellent! Well researched and includes references. 63 pages of detailed guidance.]
• Cisco Energy Efficient Data Center Solutions and Best Practices
  http://www.cisco.com/en/US/solutions/ns708/networking_solutions_products_genericcontent0900aecd806fd32e.pdf
• The Green Grid
  http://www.thegreengrid.org
  [ Many good position papers. Have metrics that organizations should consider adopting. ]

The following resources are also very good and are recommended for providing different perspectives and additional insight in certain areas.

• US Department of Energy – Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy
  http://www1.eere.energy.gov/industry/saveenergynow/partnering_data_centers.html 
• DOE – Creating Energy Efficient Data Centers
  http://www1.eere.energy.gov/industry/saveenergynow/pdfs/doe_data_centers_presentation.pdf
• American Society of Heating, Refrigeration and Air-Conditioning Engineers – Technical Committee 9.9
  http://tc99.ashraetcs.org/
• "Creating the Green Data Center" White Paper
  http://www.adc.com
• The Data Center Journal
  http://datacenterjournal.com/
• Energy Information Administration. Electric Power Monthly
  http://www.eia.doe.gov/cneaf/electricity/epm/epm_sum.html
• National Data Center Energy Efficiency Information Program
  http://www1.eere.energy.gov/industry/saveenergynow/pdfs/national_data_center_fact_sheet.pdf
• Lawrence Berkeley National Labs – Data Center Best Practices
  http://hightech.lbl.gov/datacenters.html
• Kenneth G Brill. “Data Center Energy Efficiency and Productivity”. The Uptime Institute. 2007.
  http://www.cio.co.uk/whitepapers/index.cfm?whitepaperid=4241
• Cogeneration & On-site Power Production
  http://www.cospp.com
• US Department of Energy – Distributed Energy Program
  http://www.eere.energy.gov/de/
• Chena Hot Springs Geothermal Project
  http://www.yourownpower.com/
• State of California – Distributed Energy Resource Guide
  http://www.energy.ca.gov/distgen/index.html
• Energy Fit @ Los Alamos National Labs
  http://www.lanl.gov/orgs/tt/pdf/techs/energyfit_tech.pdf 
• Giving Data Center Cooling Systems a Boost
  http://www.weigelmep.com/White%20Paper%20-%20Giving%20Data%20Center%20Cooling%20Systems%20a%20Boost.pdf 
• Thinking inside the box: Boosting the effectiveness of air cooling
  http://www.mil-embedded.com/articles/id/?3281 
• Uptime Institute
  http://www.uptimeinstitute.org/