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&#8220;Ultimately, this is a remarkable book, a practical testimonial, and a comprehensive bibliography rolled into one. It is a single, bright sword cut across the various murky green IT topics. And if my mistakes and lessons learned through the green IT journey are any indication, this book will be used every day by folks interested in greening IT.&#8221;<br /> &#8212; <i>Simon Y. Liu, Ph.D. &amp; Ed.D., Editor-in-Chief,</i> IT Professional <i>Magazine, IEEE Computer Society, Director, U.S. National Agricultural Library</i> <p><b>This book presents a holistic perspective onGreen IT by discussing its various facets and showing how to strategically embrace it</b></p> <p><i>Harnessing Green IT: Principles and Practices</i> examines various ways of making computing and information systems greener &#8211; environmentally sustainable -, as well as several means of using Information Technology (IT) as a tool and an enabler to improve the environmental sustainability. The book focuses on both greening of IT and greening by IT &#8211; complimentary approaches to attaining environmental sustainability. &#160; In a single volume, it &#160; comprehensively covers several key aspects of Green IT - green technologies, design, standards, maturity models, strategies and adoption -, and presents a clear approach to greening IT encompassing green use, green disposal, green design, and green manufacturing. It also illustrates how to stratgically apply green IT in practice in several areas.</p> <p>Key Features:</p> <ul> <li>Presents a comprehensive coverage of key topics of imprortance and practical relevance&#160; - green technologies, design, standards, maturity models, strategies and adoption</li> <li>Highlights several useful approaches to embracing green IT in several areas</li> <li>Features chapters written by accomplished experts from industry and academia who have first-hand knowledge and expertise in specific areas of green IT</li> <li>Presents a set of review and discussion questions for each chapter that will help the readers to examine and explore the green IT domain further</li> <li>Includes a companion website providing&#160; resources for further information and presentation slides</li> </ul> <p>This book will be an invaluable resource for IT Professionals, academics, students, researchers, project leaders/managers, IT business executives, CIOs, CTOs and anyone interested in Green IT and harnessing it to enhance our environment.</p>

In addition to moving itself in a greener direction and leveraging other environmental initiatives, IT could help create green awareness among IT professionals, businesses, and the general public by assisting in building communities, engaging groups in participatory decisions, and supporting education and green advocacy campaigns. Along these lines, tools such as environmental Web portals, blogs, wikis, and interactive simulations of the environmental impact of an activity could offer assistance. Green IT is an economic, as well as an environmental, imperative. Greening IT is and will continue to be a necessity, not an option. Green IT represents a dramatic change in priority in the IT industry. So far, the industry has been focusing on IT equipment processing power and associated equipment spending. It's not been concerned with other requirements such as power, cooling, and data center space. However, going forward, the IT industry will need to deal with all of the infrastructure requirements and the environmental impact of IT and its use. The challenges of green IT are immense; however, recent developments indicate that the IT industry has the will and conviction to tackle our environmental issues head-on. The IT sector and users must develop a positive attitude toward addressing environmental concerns and adopt forward-looking, green-friendly policies and practices.

The Encyclopedia of Cloud Computing provides IT professionals, educators, researchers and students with a compendium of cloud computing knowledge. Authored by a spectrum of subject matter experts in industry and academia, this unique publication, in a single volume, covers a wide range of cloud computing topics, including technological trends and developments, research opportunities, best practices, standards, and cloud adoption. Providing multiple perspectives, it also addresses questions that stakeholders might have in the context of development, operation, management, and use of clouds. Furthermore, it examines cloud computing's impact now and in the future. The encyclopedia presents 56 chapters logically organized into 10 sections. Each chapter covers a major topic/area with cross-references to other chapters and contains tables, illustrations, side-bars as appropriate. Furthermore, each chapter presents its summary at the beginning and backend material, references and additional resources for further information.

Web 2.0, the second phase in the Web's evolution, is attracting the attention of IT professionals, businesses, and Web users. Web 2.0 is also called the wisdom Web, people-centric Web, participative Web, and read/write Web. Web 2.0 harnesses the Web in a more interactive and collaborative manner, emphasizing peers' social interaction and collective intelligence, and presents new opportunities for leveraging the Web and engaging its users more effectively. Within the last two to three years, Web 2.0, ignited by successful Web 2.0 based social applications such as MySpace, Flickr, and YouTube, has been forging new applications that were previously unimaginable.

Cloud computing represents a paradigm shift, a transition from computing-as-a-product to computing-as-a-service. Instead of buying hardware and software products, which require installation, configuration, and maintenance, cloud computing lets you use applications and computing infrastructures in the cloud as a service, so you pay only for resources used. Clouds thus offer businesses and individual access to advanced IT infrastructures and applications that might otherwise be out of their reach. Emerging markets have been quick to recognize this and other benefits of cloud computing.

Enterprises face several challenges in deploying mobile applications, emanating from features such as location independence, contextualization, and personalization. The six-layer enterprise mobile applications development framework offers a systematic and comprehensive solution to mobile application development and maintenance. The taxonomy of enterprise mobile application are mobile broadcast, mobile information, mobile transaction, mobile operation, mobile collaboration.

What can IT professionals and executives learn from Steve Jobs? This tribute to the great technologist and visionary innovator discusses how Jobs went about transforming computing, enhancing the user experience, and creating a most valued technology company.

Emerging markets-nations in the process of rapid growth and industrialization, including China, India, Brazil, Russia (the BRIC countries), South Africa, South Korea, the Philippines, and Mexico-have been attracting much attention in recent years, and for good reason. They represent two-thirds of the world's population, generate over 20 percent of the world's gross domestic product, and are restructuring themselves to foster further growth and socioeconomic development (www.emeraldinsight. com/products/journals/journals. htm?id=ijoem). Furthermore, they're increasingly using IT in areas such as education; healthcare; business, economic and human development; and government. New opportunities thus exist for the IT industry and emerging markets to embrace each other. Consequently, IT Professional is introducing this new \"IT in Emerging Markets\" department. To trigger an ongoing discussion, in this inaugural installment the author examines the importance of emerging markets, IT's role in their growth, and the related challenges that IT professionals will face.

IT is both a solution and problem for environmental sustainability. As businesses and governments try to balance growth with environmental risks, we're called upon to make IT systems and work practices greener and to use IT in innovative ways to address environmental problems.