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Sustainable IT Playbook for Technology Leaders

You're reading from   Sustainable IT Playbook for Technology Leaders Design and implement sustainable IT practices and unlock sustainable business opportunities

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803230344
Length 418 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1: Why Is Sustainable IT Important?
2. Chapter 1: Our Most Significant Challenge Ahead FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Rise of Sustainable IT 4. Part 2: What Are Sustainable IT Practices?
5. Chapter 3: The Fundamental Building Blocks of a Sustainable IT Practice 6. Chapter 4: Data Center and Cloud 7. Chapter 5: Application and Data 8. Chapter 6: IT Hardware Management 9. Chapter 7: Energy Resource Management 10. Chapter 8: Leveraging Your Buying Power 11. Chapter 9: Sustainability by IT 12. Part 3: How Do You Accelerate Sustainable IT?
13. Chapter 10: Get Started Today 14. Chapter 11: Putting a Sustainable IT Strategy in Place 15. Chapter 12: From Strategy to Execution – Lead with Purpose and Deliver Progress Quickly 16. Index 17. Other Books You May Enjoy

Sustainability by IT

We have this finite window to make the transition.

(Leonardo DiCaprio, actor and climate activist)

To a large extent, sustainable information technology (sustainable IT) is about using IT to reduce companies’, organizations’, and individuals’ environmental impact. So far, in this second part of the book, we have focused on exploring how you can develop a sustainable IT practice to minimize the impact of IT and how we can make data centers, the cloud, applications, data, information and communications (ICT) equipment, and energy management more sustainable.

Technology—“CleanTech” or “SustainTech”—has an incredible opportunity to be an enabler in developing sustainable technology. This chapter will focus on how we can leverage technology to create sustainable solutions and achieve sustainability by IT. In this chapter, we take an outsider’s perspective and look at how IT can help reduce...

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