Sustainable IT playbook for technology leaders design and implement sustainable IT practices and unlock sustainable business opportunities
At a critical point in human history, this book presents proven ways to gain the skills needed to develop sustainable IT practices and set yourself apart as a progressive technology leader Key Features Execute a sustainable IT strategy with proven methods and real-world use cases Progress as a susta...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Birmingham, UK
Packt Publishing Ltd
2022
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| Collection: | O'Reilly - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Location
- Energy consumption
- Life cycle assessment
- Data center sustainability score card
- The rise of the net-positive cloud
- Choosing a sustainable cloud service provider
- Microsoft Azure
- Google Cloud
- Amazon Web Services
- Alibaba Cloud
- Oracle
- Tencent Cloud
- IBM
- Cloud vendor report cards
- The power of alliances
- Summary
- Further reading
- Bibliography
- Chapter 5: Application and Data
- The world runs on software
- Transforming Enterprise Architecture to help achieve sustainability targets
- Turning a sustainability strategy into action with Enterprise Architecture
- Transforming business architecture with the UN's SDGs
- Optimizing application and data architectures in the cloud using best practice frameworks
- A pragmatic Enterprise Architecture framework for sustainability tracking
- Application portfolio management
- Application rationalization process
- Application assessment criteria
- TIME analysis
- Sustainable software development
- Choosing energy-efficient programming languages
- Sustainable SDLC
- Measuring your CO2 spend in the cloud
- Summary
- The well-kept secret of the IT industry
- Summary
- Further resources
- Bibliography
- Chapter 2: Rise of Sustainable IT
- What is sustainable IT?
- Sustainability in IT, sustainability by IT, and IT for society
- Sustainable IT GHG emission taxonomy
- Corporate sustainability and sustainable IT
- Drivers for a sustainable IT agenda
- ESG considerations for IT
- Financial value
- Non-financial value
- Risks
- Employee engagement
- Readiness
- Summary
- Bibliography
- Part 2: What Are Sustainable IT Practices?
- Cover
- Titlte Page
- Copyright and Credits
- Foreword
- Contributors
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- Part 1: Why Is Sustainable IT Important?
- Chapter 1: Our Most Significant Challenge Ahead
- Climate change
- our most significant challenge ahead
- What are GHG emissions?
- How did we get here?
- Bending the curve
- History of sustainability
- Sustainability trends
- The Paris Agreement
- EU Taxonomy
- Sustainable finance
- GHG Protocol Corporate Standard
- Science-based targets
- Innovate or die
- Transitioning to a circular economy
- Chapter 3: The Fundamental Building Blocks of a Sustainable IT Practice
- The unprecedented growth of IT
- Sustainable IT reference model
- Data centers and the cloud
- Applications and data
- IT hardware management
- Energy resource management
- Leveraging buying power
- Sustainability by IT
- Summary
- Bibliography
- Chapter 4: Data Center and Cloud
- The information backbone of our connected world
- The sustainability benefits of moving from on-premises to cloud computing
- Definition of the cloud
- The value of the cloud
- Sustainable IT benefits from cloud computing