“The Green and Virtual Data Center”

Greg Schulz, founder of analyst and consulting firm StorageIO, has written a new book, The Green and Virtual Data Center, just released.

This book focuses on the idea that IT infrastructure resources configured and deployed in a highly virtualized manner can be combined with other techniques and technologies to achieve a simplified and cost-effective delivery of IT services in a clean, green, and profitable manner. It covers these technologies and techniques that today’s data centers should be considering while trying to maximize resources, such as power, cooling, floor space, storage, server performance, and network capacity.

Some of the topics include:

• Energy and data footprint reductions
• Cloud-based storage and computing
• Intelligent and adaptive power management
• Server, storage, and networking virtualization
• Tiered servers for storage, network, and data centers
• Energy avoidance and energy efficiency

The book is sold for $74.68 by Amazon.