John Lamb is a Senior Certified IT Architect with IBM Global Services in New York. He has authored or co-authored numerous technical papers and articles, as well as five books on computer technologies including the May 2009 book: "The Greening of IT: How Companies Can Make a Difference for the Environment." John holds a Ph.D. in Engineering Science from the University of California at Berkeley. He can be reached at jlamb@us.ibm.com.
The most significant step most organizations can make in moving to green data centers is to implement virtualization for their IT data center devices. The IT devices include servers, data storage, and clients or desktops used to support the data center. There is also a virtual IT world of the future-via private cloud computing-for most […]