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Название: The Green IT Guide: How to Make Your IT Systems and Business Sustainable and Carbon Neutral, 2nd Edition Автор: Mike Halsey Издательство: Springer Год: 2025 Страниц: 340 Язык: английский Формат: pdf (true) Размер: 10.1 MB
Make your IT systems the solution to climate change rather than the cause. More and more we’re relying on an ever-increasing number of different computer types and services, powerful smartphones, and cloud data centers. All of this carries with it a carbon footprint and a negative impact on the environment, and your business or organization will come under increasing scrutiny and criticism from customers, stakeholders, and governments.
It doesn’t have to be this way though, and with the right information, some careful planning, and the sensible use of different technologies, you could be helping both the planet and people worldwide and in your local communities. With this guide, author Mike Halsey gives you the information you need to head towards a sustainable, carbon-neutral or even carbon-negative future.
This second edition discusses the impact of the latest technologies, including SoC (System on a Chip) PCs, and Artificial Intelligence (AI). It details how these technologies can help your business achieve its climate goals, and what challenges are involved, especially with the enormous power consumption of AI in the cloud.
Additionally, this edition includes how regulation, both nationally and internationally, affects you, and how your business can become compliant and maintain high standards of sustainability into the future. It looks at the current uncertain state of the world, and how this can affect the cloud, IT supply chains, security, regulation, compliance, and business sustainability.
This of course all raises an important question: when is a good time to retire an older PC and purchase new computer hardware? Original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) have tried their very best in recent years to convince us to upgrade our devices, especially smartphones every year or two at the most. They do this with a steady stream of new advancements in screen and battery life and especially with camera technology, and Samsung is particularly notorious when it comes to this often with two major hardware launches every year.
Apple will have a hardware launch in the fall (autumn for readers outside of the USA) of each year, but will usually only launch a major new iteration of a device every two years, and most other companies follow suit. Biannual hardware launches are of course a sensible approach as technology is now significantly more efficient and longer-lasting than it used to be, not to mention that especially when it comes to smartphones, features and power now seem to have topped out, with big leaps forward now being replaced with smaller iterative changes to each new generation of products.
You might find with some PCs that you can breathe new life into them by route of a straightforward upgrade. Adding more memory to a PC can often be the quickest and cheapest way to breathe new life into it, say upgrading it from 16 GB RAM to 32 GB. Adding a new graphics card can help a CAD or video rendering PC work more efficiently or provide AI capabilities the PC just didn’t have before, and swapping out an aging hard disk for a modern SSD (solid-state disk) can speed workflow.
While upgrading laptops has always been difficult going on impossible, the Right to Repair movement has gained traction, and, though not every laptop will support upgradeable and swappable components, it’s not very difficult these days to find laptops that will, and you may choose to purchase these machines in preference for the sealed, non-upgradeable units going forward.
What You Will Learn:
Choose sustainable IT equipment Find the most environmentally-friendly cloud, and business services Know how community and national and international projects can help you become more sustainable Consider what roles Artificial Intelligence (AI) and regulation play in business sustainability Look at the latest and future technologies to take your business towards carbon-neutrality
Who This Book Is For: Business leaders tasked by their company to find efficient ways to reduce the local, national, and global carbon footprint of their organization; IT professionals who want to find effective strategies for bringing their company in line with existing and forthcoming environmental standards and regulations; and individual power users who are keen to reduce the carbon footprint of their own IT systems.
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