Go Gang Green!
eek! No, not the stumbling, bumbling New York Jets (although this fan is forever hopeful), I mean the Greening in IT. The latest issue of the Microsoft Architect Journal is focused on Green Computing:
- Environmentally Sustainable Infrastructure Design - A comprehensive understanding of environmental sustainability needs for IT infrastructure system design.
- Green IT in Practice: SQL Server Consolidation in Microsoft IT - This Microsoft IT case study offers useful guidelines for effective resource consolidation for environmental sustainability.
- Project Genome: Wireless Sensor Network for Data Center Cooling - Learn about a research project on an interesting adaptive cooling technique.
- Profiling Energy Usage for Efficient Consumption - This article suggests that tracking energy consumption at every level will become the factor of success for green architecture practitioners.
- Architecture Journal Profle: Udi Dahan- noted expert on SOA and .NET development, and four-time Microsoft MVP.
- Application Patterns for Green IT - A complete analysis on power-effcient applications design, considering tools that help the architect achieve scalability without deriving in energy waste.
- Green Maturity Model for Virtualization - The authors present a study on the maturity of virtualization practices and offer a sustainability roadmap for organizations planning a green agenda.
P.S. Don't forget there is a bit of a lag in getting this content in the WPF based reader (the previous issue on Distributed Computing is available via the reader as are older issues).
P.P.S. If you haven't seen the Software Enabled Earth blog, it goes deeper...
