carolbaroudi

Launching a new research practice focused on Green IT and Sustainability and welcome your participation at Groups: Sign in Green IT & Sustainability Research . Determining our first research agenda and would love to know what’s top of mind for you. Please feel free to circulate this list to interested colleagues. You can write to me at [email protected] Of the following suggested topics and report titles, please rank your top five. Feel free to suggest other topics or titles and include them in your ranking. If you are interested in a particular subset or aspect of a topic or have a great report title to suggest, please tell us explicitly. We will read and consider your responses carefully. Thank you for your considered response. Our goal is to create a dynamic, responsible, well-informed community and we are eager for your active participation. Please choose five of the following topics and rank them in importance to you, (1) being the most important, (5) being the fifth most important. By importance to you we mean topics you’d like to see us research and write about. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *** Green IT End User Interest Survey *** ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TOP 5 Priorities 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *** Proposed Green IT Topic Areas *** Virtualization in General Desktop virtualization Application virtualization Server virtualization Storage virtualization Green Data Center Best Practices Measuring, Monitoring and Controlling Data Center Energy Consumption Green Cooling Strategies Data Center and Server Room Expansion and how to Avoid it, Postpone it, or Do it gradually (intelligently) Smart Grid/Smart Meter & B2B Energy Management Carbon Management Platforms and Services Product Life-cycle Carbon Foot-Print Platforms and Services Paper Choice / Paper Use Greener Printing Paperless processes Green IT Strategy Governing / Managing Green IT Is the Cloud Green? How Green is Your Cloud? Meeting Green Objectives through Outsourcing Responsible disposal of electronic assets Using collaboration to reduce carbon and costs Teleconference Web conferencing Telecommuting The impact of current (and coming) environmental regulations Regulatory Pressures Driving Green Adoption Using Software as a Service to reduce hardware purchase, energy consumption and maintenance Purchasing greener IT Asset life-cycle management Capacity on Demand PC power management Information Lifecycle Management and Greener storage strategies Replacing physical with digital distribution Environment, Health and Safety Smart Building Management Greener Networking The CFO’s View of Green IT Green-enabled Capital Management: CFO Drivers Green IT capex to opex transformation Green IT Services: Fact or Fiction Green Economics During Troubled Times Carol Baroudi Research Director Green IT and Sustainability [email protected] Aberdeen Group: Get Smart. Read Research. Aberdeen Group +1 617 854 5287direct Green IT For Dummies available now at online booksellers

Author (Green IT For Dummies and others) Industry Analyst forming a research practice on Green IT - hoping to learn from everybody - located Boston MA US