| View Larger Image | The Green and Virtual Data Center | Hardcoverby Greg Schulz (Author)
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| | Binding: | Hardcover | | Publisher: | CRC/Auerbach Publications | | Edition: | 1st Edition | | Page Count: | 400 Pages | | Publication Date: | January 26, 2009 | | Sales Rank: | 138,898th |
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Product Description
The Green and Virtual Data Center sets aside the political aspects of what is or is not considered green, to instead examine the opportunities for organizations that want to sustain economical growth that is environmental-friendly. If you believe or are willing to entertain the idea that IT infrastructure resources configured and deployed in a highly virtualized manner can be combined with other techniques and technologies to achieve simplified and cost-effective delivery of IT services in a clean green profitable manner, this book is for you.Through its pages, savvy industry veteran Greg Schulz provides real-world insight in addressing best practices, server, software, storage, networking, and facilities issues concerning any current or next-generation virtual data center that relies on underlying physical infrastructures. Coverage includes:Energy as well as data footprint reduction Cloud-based storage and computing Intelligent and adaptive power management Server, storage, and networking virtualization Tiered servers; storage, network, and data centers Energy avoidance and energy efficiency Many technologies exist now, and others are emerging, that can enable a green and efficient virtual data center to support and sustain business growth with reasonable return on investment. This book present virtually all critical IT technologies and techniques to discuss the interdependencies that need to be supported to enable a dynamic, energy-efficient, economical, and environmentally friendly green IT data center. This is a path that every organization must ultimately follow.Visit the author’s website at: www.thegreenandvirtualdatacenter.com/book2.html |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 5.0 based on 4 reviews)
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Timely information for CIO's and IT Directors by Paul D. Collins (Edison, NJ USA)  5 Stars
October 16, 2009
Greg Schulz has delivered with both a timely and informative book. With the economic meltdown occurring in 2008 every company has become focused on cost containment both for Cap Ex and Op Ex and the data center is in forefront. This is taking place at the same time as heighten awareness of our planets ecology and the impact of IT and data centers. As Schulz states in his summary chapter: "The objective is to lower cost, boost productivity, and improve service delivery to meet performance and availability objectives in a flexible or agile manner that also helps the environment."
In the first chapter Schulz coins the acronym PCFE for power, cooling, floor space and environmental to aggregate the IT infrastructure issues that are core to green initiatives. As I read through the book I substituted PC Fe for Politically Correct Iron because in my mind it reflects what Schulz calls the "green gap". This "green gap" is the separation of ecological and economic factors that are tied to the data center. On one hand we have the concerns about global warming, green-house gases, and carbon emissions while on the other we have data growth, power and cooling cost, stock holders looking for profits and the perceived cost to be green. The case is presented that this gap is more one of language and attitude as opposed to reality. If IT directors and facility managers implement best practices to design and run their data centers they will find in most cases they align with green objectives because it makes business sense.
The book is divided into four sections. In the first section there is a summary of the issues facing CIOs and IT directors around energy consumption, safety requirements for the disposal or equipment, and what green IT means. The second section looks at current trends in data center infrastructure and how they can be effectively monitored and managed. The third examines the technologies which are enabling virtualization and driving current trends like cloud computing. This is Mr. Schulz's area of core competency and has the most in depth coverage. In the final portion of the book there are practical applications of the concepts discussed in the other sections. I found the format to be a good organization that kept key areas together and the overall coverage of the topics to be of sufficient depth. I would recommend this book to anyone wants to understand the impact of "green IT" as well how the convergence of a number of technologies has created potential for virtual IT infrastructure.
About the reviewer
Paul Collins is CTO for Total Tec Systems a leading enterprise solution provider for data center infrastructure, and server and storage virtualization. He has a 20 year history of helping customers design, implement and manage IT infrastructure. Total Tec Systems is headquartered in Edison, NJ.
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Practical Advice on Green Data Centers by Thomas M. Coughlin (San Jose, CA) 5 Stars
May 11, 2009
Operating expenses for a data center often exceed initial caital expenses. In today's economy reducing operating expenses is a major priority for IT professionals. Greg Shulz's book, The Green and Virtual Data Center is an excellent reference book for creating and running cost effective and environmentally sensitive data centers.
The author shows us the basic operations, hardware and expenses for a modern data center. He covers the infrastructure as well as direct expenses. Infrastructure expenses such as HVAC, UPS and power conditioning can account for more than half the total operating costs of a data center. By controlling hardware efficiency, extending the allowable temperature range and move efficient cooling suing external air and water as well as better server and storage placement, these infrastructure operating expenses can be significantly reduced.
Virtualization is a popular way to consolidate data center resources. This technology abstractes storage and servers to act as a common pool that can be centrally managed and dynamically allocated. Using the extensive suggestions in theis book, data center administrators can increase their use of these pooled resources to 80% or higher.
A shown in this book, deduplication and compression of data on storage systems reduces overall stoarge system growth. Combining these methods for reducing overall storage demand with appropriate implementation of storage hierarchies and usage of new storage technologies such as MAID and solid state storage can reduce hardware as well as operating expenses.
The book includes a useful glossary as well as helpful references and tips in the appendices. This book is a good investment and will remain a much used reference for data center administers and IT managers.
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Great book to understand green and virtualized next generation data centers by Zen Kishimoto (Cupertino, CA USA) 5 Stars
May 08, 2009
Overall this is a well-structured and organized book with comprehensive coverage of necessary technologies and practices, including virtualization to understand next-generation data centers. Some technical contents require an IT background, but the book will certainly give you a good understanding of current data-center problems and solutions and what next-generation data centers will require to mitigate their environmental impact.
Because of the wide variety of subjects, several shorter versions of the book will be a good addition. In addition, I would like to see new topics discussed in the next version of the book.
The complete review is given in http://bit.ly/12K5Cw.
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Great Book! If you work in the computer industry, it is a must read! by Thomas G. Becchetti 5 Stars
February 05, 2009
This book is packed full of information. From ecological and energy efficiencies, to virtualization strategies and what the future may hold for many of the key enabling technologies. Greg's writting style benifits both tehnoligists and management levels.
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