Green IT for Dummies®

Author's Acknowledgments

We gratefully acknowledge the many generous people whose help and support made this book possible. Thanks to the encouragement and support of Aberdeen Group management — Steven Gold, Andrew Boyd, and Vik Muiznieks — who understand the importance of our mission, and to Deb Casey, Joe Snowden, Marc Collura, and Dave Boynton.

A special thanks to Judith Tracy of the IBM Corporation who rallied vast resources to come to our aid. Thanks to other IBMers including Rich Lechner, Chris O'Connor, Cameron O'Connor, Vik Chandra, Chris Spaight, Jay Dietrich, Michael Hogan, Logan Scott, Wayne Balta, David Anderson, Roger Schmidt, Andy Wachs, Bola Oyedijo, Wendy, Kellogg, Jeff Hittner, Charles Jenkins, Lena Stark, Jane Snowden, Christopher Dittmer, Eva Lau, and Bill Neale.

Thanks to Brian Fry of Rackforce, Bob Houghton, Jim Mejia of Redemtech, Jim Regan, and Paul Vetter. Thanks to Brian Cowie of the CIT Paper Group, both for his contribution to this book and for what he's doing for sustainability.

Thanks to our friends at Cisco — Mark Leary, Lisbet Sherlock, and Neil Harris.

Thanks to Larry Vertal at AMD who has been involved since an early foray into green IT and who has cheered us on ever since. Thanks to Peter Doggart of Crossbeam.

Thanks to Sun Microsystems — Dave Douglas, Alex Dethier, Sebode Tafad, and Mark Monroe.

Thanks to Jose Iglesias, Mike Spink, Bruce Naegal, Caroline Dennington of Symantec, Will Layton of Copan Systems, Craig Nunes of 3PAR, Larry Cormier of LeftHand ...