Sustainable IT playbook for technology leaders : design and implement sustainable IT practices and unlock sustainable business opportunities.

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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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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Sundberg, Niklas (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Birmingham, UK : Packt Publishing Ltd, 2022.
Temas:
Sustainable development > Information technology.
Environmental sciences > Information technology.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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
  • 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?
  • 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
  • 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

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