Corporate Social Responsibility: Green Information Technology

Essay by zakovskaUniversity, Master'sA-, July 2014

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SRH UNIVERSITY BERLIN, INTERNATIONAL MANAGEMENT

Corporate Social Responsibility: Green Information Technology

Sanja Zakovska

February 3, 2014

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CONTENTS

1 Introduction 3

2 Green IT 3 2.1 Green IT Standards and Regulations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 2.2 Green IT Strategies and Approaches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 2.3 The Personalities of Green IT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

3 Green Use of IT 7

4 Green Design of Data Centre Infrastructures 9 4.1 Using Energy Efficient Hardware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 4.2 Green Procurement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 4.3 Efficient Cooling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 4.4 Killing Comatose Servers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 4.5 Eco-Friendly Design . . . . . . . . . .