Acknowledgments

Many of the ideas and details presented in the following chapters are based on the green IT projects and green data center installations designed by IBM for its internal and commercial users. Therefore, I would like to thank all those involved with the design of these IBM implementations. In addition, I’d like to thank all the other green IT vendors and organizations who contributed information on green IT, including HP, Dell, Sun, Hitachi, Siemens, PG&E, NiSource, Columbia University, Bryant University, IEEE, ASHRAE, EPA, Emerson/Liebert, SPEC, LEED, The Green Grid, and the University of Colorado.

I would like to thank my management group in IBM’s System Engineering, Architecture, & Test (SEA&T) group for their support for this ...

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