The Green
and Virtual
Data Center
by Greg Schulz
ISBN-10: 1420086669
ISBN-13: 978-1420086669
January 2009 by CRC press
by Greg Schulz
ISBN-10: 1420086669
ISBN-13: 978-1420086669
January 2009 by CRC press
(Taylor & Francis Group)
376 pages, with more than 100 figures and tables, 11 chapters plus appendices, as well as a glossary, hardcopy, English.
The book focuses on the idea that IT infrastructure resources configured and deployed in a highly virtualized manner can be combined with other techniques and technologies to achieve a simplified and cost-effective delivery of IT services in a clean, green, and profitable manner.
“The Green and Virtual Data Center” sets aside the political aspects of what is or is not considered green to examine the opportunities for organizations trying to grow their business while being environmentally friendly in an economically efficient manner. Addressing multiple technology domains and disciplines, it looks at design and implementation tradeoffs using various best practices and technologies to sustain application and business growth while maximizing resources, such as power, cooling, floor space, storage, server performance, and network capacity.
Throughout the book’s pages, savvy industry veteran Greg Schulz provides real-world insight addressing best practices, as well as server, software, storage, networking, and facilities issues that current or next-generation virtual data centers are facing today.
Some of the topics include:
• Energy and data footprint reductions
• Cloud-based storage and computing
• Intelligent and adaptive power management
• Server, storage, and networking virtualization
• Tiered servers for storage, network, and data centers
• Energy avoidance and energy efficiency
BIOGRAPHY
“The Green and Virtual Data Center” sets aside the political aspects of what is or is not considered green to examine the opportunities for organizations trying to grow their business while being environmentally friendly in an economically efficient manner. Addressing multiple technology domains and disciplines, it looks at design and implementation tradeoffs using various best practices and technologies to sustain application and business growth while maximizing resources, such as power, cooling, floor space, storage, server performance, and network capacity.
Throughout the book’s pages, savvy industry veteran Greg Schulz provides real-world insight addressing best practices, as well as server, software, storage, networking, and facilities issues that current or next-generation virtual data centers are facing today.
Some of the topics include:
• Energy and data footprint reductions
• Cloud-based storage and computing
• Intelligent and adaptive power management
• Server, storage, and networking virtualization
• Tiered servers for storage, network, and data centers
• Energy avoidance and energy efficiency
BIOGRAPHY
Greg Schulz is founder of the Server and StorageIO (StorageIO) Group, an IT industry analyst and consultancy firm. Mr. Schulz has worked with various server operating systems alon
g with storage and networking software tools, hardware and services. Greg has worked as a programmer, systems administrator, disaster recovery consultant, and storage and capacity planner for various IT organizations. He has worked for various vendors before joining an industry analyst firm and later forming StorageIO. In addition to his analyst and consulting research duties, Schulz has published over a thousand articles, tips, reports and white papers and is a sought after popular speaker at events around the world. Greg is also author of the book Resilient Storage Network (Elsevier).
PURCHASE LINKS
http://www.amazon.com/reader/1420086669
http://www.serverandstorageio.com/book2.html
WEBSITE AND BLOG LINKS
http://serverandstorageio.com/books.html
http://storageioblog.com/
http://twitter.com/storageio
UPCOMING EVENTS
g with storage and networking software tools, hardware and services. Greg has worked as a programmer, systems administrator, disaster recovery consultant, and storage and capacity planner for various IT organizations. He has worked for various vendors before joining an industry analyst firm and later forming StorageIO. In addition to his analyst and consulting research duties, Schulz has published over a thousand articles, tips, reports and white papers and is a sought after popular speaker at events around the world. Greg is also author of the book Resilient Storage Network (Elsevier).PURCHASE LINKS
http://www.amazon.com/reader/1420086669
http://www.serverandstorageio.com/book2.html
WEBSITE AND BLOG LINKS
http://serverandstorageio.com/books.html
http://storageioblog.com/
http://twitter.com/storageio
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