Course 100103: Green IT Boot Camp

Green IT is a growing, global phenomenon, with enterprises and government agencies seeking out IT suppliers whose offerings are more energy-efficient, more material-efficient, less hazardous, designed for greater recyclability, and supported by end-of-life recycling programs. "Green IT" boot camp is dedicated to Green IT technologies, issues, strategies, policies and solutions across the Enterprise, Government and Public Sector. Power efficiency, virtualization and equipment refresh and recyling policies can all be included in a coherent strategy that will make sense for the company.

Over 4 days this training boot camp will provide IT professionals involved with delivering cost-effective, sustainable information systems and technology, the opportunity to learn about Green IT technologies, key strategies, policies, best practices and solutions from our senior instructors including industry leaders, analysts and providers in this field.

After completing this course, the attendees will be able to:

• Understand what Green Information Technology (IT) is
• Understand IT infrastructure and environment
• Explore energy efficient computing techniques
• List Green IT issues, policies, solutions and products
• Understand efficiency and innovation for Sustainable IT
• Explore Green IT strategies
• Strategies on how to start Green IT Projects
• List Green IT standards, policies and legislation

Introduction

• Example of Green Efforts within Green Enterprise: Reduce, Reuse and Recycle
• What is "Green IT"
• What is sustainability?
• Driver for Green IT Adoption
• Green IT: Corporate Strategies
  • Strategies  to harvest the environmental and financial benefits of becoming more eco-conscious
• Green Storage and Data Centers
• The Green Grid
• Green IT Outside Of the Data Center
• Cutting Emissions and Energy Use Enterprise-wide
• Power Management and Energy Aware Computing
• Business Benefits of Creating a Green IT Strategy
• Proactive IT Management in the Face of Eco-Legislation
• Green IT Capacity Planning: from theory to the practice
• Improving Customer Services With Green IT

Enterprise IT Infrastructure

• Overview of IT Infrastructures
• Storage Strategies
• Data Centers
  Server Consolidation and Utilization
• Printing and Document Management
• Assest Management
• PC and Desktop Management
• E-Waste and Recycling
• Server Virtualization
• Enegery and HVAC

IT's Empowerment of the "Green" Enterprise

• Driving Green IT
• How to Maximize IT Operational Efficiency
• Emissions and Energy Consumption
• Energy Efficient Computing
• Cost Control Approaches to Green Computing
• Reducing IT Latency and Redundancy
• Equipment Refresh cycles and TCO
• IT Power Efficiency Techniques
• The payoff of efficient servers
• Virtualization and Power Efficiency
• Datacenter Green Strategies
• Efficient Datacenter through Virtualization
• Power-Efficient Enterprise-Class Data Centers
• Greening the Desktop: Thin Computing Case Studies
• Develop a Holistic Green IT Strategy
• Role of Mobile and Wireless Infrastructures
• Improving Your Organization’s Green Credentials
   

Green IT standards, Policy & Legislation

• The Political Position on Green IT
• Improving the Environmental Sustainability of IT Organization
• Sourcing, Lifecycle and Disposal Planning
• Overview of Green Strategies
• Creating the Green IT Action Plan
• Disposal Policy & Legislation
• Recycling Policies
• Legislation and Policy
• Collaborative Communications 
• Outsourcing & Managed Services
• Compliance with State, Federal and International Regulations
  

Projects and Workshops  

• TONEX Roadmaps to get Datacenter Energy Efficiency
  • The benefits of a green data center
  • Managing the increasing cost of the energy
  • Environmental laws and the company image
  • Developing a strategy
  • Assess the greenness of your data center
  • A summary of best green practices
  • Energy optimization with IT equipment
  • Consolidation: A key in energy efficiency
  • Virtualization: The greenest of technologies
  • Server virtualization
  • Reducing power consumption with innovative technologies
  • Green Capacity Planning 
  • TONEX planning approach for today’s data centers
  • Incorporating environmental considerations into traditional computer and network capacity planning
  • Methodology & Terminology
  • Energy Footprint Projection
  • IT Equipment Power Calculation
  • Energy Cost Calculation
• The roadmap to reduction of energy consumption in your IT organization
• Creating & Implementing an Effective green IT Strategy
• Case Study: Top 20 Worldwide Green-IT Enterprises