Sustainable IT playbook for technology leaders : design and implement sustainable IT practices and unlock sustainable business opportunities

Cover -- Titlte Page -- Copyright and Credits -- Foreword -- Contributors -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Part 1: Why Is Sustainable IT Important? -- Chapter 1: Our Most Significant Challenge Ahead -- Climate change - our most significant challenge ahead -- What are GHG emissions? -- How did we get here? -- Bending the curve -- History of sustainability -- Sustainability trends -- The Paris Agreement -- EU Taxonomy -- Sustainable finance -- GHG Protocol Corporate Standard -- Science-based targets -- Innovate or die -- Transitioning to a circular economy -- The well-kept secret of the IT industry -- Summary -- Further resources -- Bibliography -- Chapter 2: Rise of Sustainable IT -- What is sustainable IT? -- Sustainability in IT, sustainability by IT, and IT for society -- Sustainable IT GHG emission taxonomy -- Corporate sustainability and sustainable IT -- Drivers for a sustainable IT agenda -- ESG considerations for IT -- Financial value -- Non-financial value -- Risks -- Employee engagement -- Readiness -- Summary -- Bibliography -- Part 2: What Are Sustainable IT Practices? -- Chapter 3: The Fundamental Building Blocks of a Sustainable IT Practice -- The unprecedented growth of IT -- Sustainable IT reference model -- Data centers and the cloud -- Applications and data -- IT hardware management -- Energy resource management -- Leveraging buying power -- Sustainability by IT -- Summary -- Bibliography -- Chapter 4: Data Center and Cloud -- The information backbone of our connected world -- The sustainability benefits of moving from on-premises to cloud computing -- Definition of the cloud -- The value of the cloud -- Sustainable IT benefits from cloud computing -- Location -- Energy consumption -- Life cycle assessment -- Data center sustainability score card -- The rise of the net-positive cloud.