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Auerbach - CRC Press - Taylor & Francis Group

By Greg P. Schulz of StorageIO www.storageio.com

 ISBN-10: 1420086669 and ISBN-13: 978-1420086669

 Hardcover • Approximately 396 pages • Over 100 Illustrations, Figures and Tables

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The Green and Virtual Data Center (Auerbach) 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. It is based on the principle 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.

“Greg Schulz has presented a concise and visionary perspective on the Green issues, He has cut through the hype and highlighted where to start and what the options are.  A great place to start your green journey and a useful handbook to have as the journey continues. - Greg Brunton - EDS”

Through its pages, savvy industry veteran Greg Schulz provides real-world insight in addressing best practices, as well as server, software, storage, networking, and facilities issues concerning any current or next-generation virtual data center that relies on underlying physical infrastructures. Some of the topics covered include –

• 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 presents virtually all critical IT technologies and techniques, examining the interdependencies that need to be supported to enable a dynamic, energy-efficient, economical, and environmental-friendly green IT data center. This is a path that every organization must ultimately follow.

The Green and Virtual Data Center (Auerbach) is organized as follows:

• Preface
• Part I - Green IT and the Green Gap—Real or Virtual?
• Chapter 1 - IT Data Center Economic and Ecological Sustainment
• Chapter 2 - Energy-Efficient and Ecologically Friendly Data Centers
• Part II  Next-Generation Virtual Data Centers
• Chapter 3 - What Defines a Next-Generation and Virtual Data Center?
• Chapter 4 - IT Infrastructure Resource Management
• Chapter 5 - Measurement, Metrics, and Management of IT Resources
• Part III - Technologies for Enabling Green and Virtual Data Centers
• Chapter 6 - Highly Effective Data Center Facilities and Habitats for Technology
• Chapter 7 - Servers—Physical, Virtual, and Software
• Chapter 8 - Data Storage - Disk, Tape, Optical, and Memory
• Chapter 9 - Networking with Your Servers and Storage
• Part IV - Applying What You Have Learned
• Chapter 10 - Putting Together a Green and Virtual Data Center
• Chapter 11 - Wrap-up and Closing Comments
• Appendix A - Where to Learn More
• Appendix B - Checklists and Tips
• Glossary

A green and virtual data center relies on the efficient usage of underlying physical resources to achieve energy savings. Green servers, storage, and networks deliver the performance, availability, and responsiveness for all types of application needs and requirements. This book provides strategies and blueprints for enabling and deploying environmentally friendly next-generation data centers. 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. In this book, coverage shows how to make server and storage virtualization energy efficient and still be able to support a diversity of high-performance applications without degrading application quality of service or service level commitments. "The Green and Virtual Data Center" book also explores performance and capacity planning in a virtual environment that supports resource-demanding applications, such as OLTP and streaming media.

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