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Acknowledgments

M any of the ideas and details presented in the following chapters
are based on the green IT projects and green data center installations
designed by IBM for its internal and commercial users. Therefore, I
would like to thank all those involved with the design of these IBM
implementations. In addition, I’d like to thank all the other green IT
vendors and organizations who contributed information on green IT,
including HP, Dell, Sun, Hitachi, Siemens, PG&E, NiSource, Columbia ptg
University, Bryant University, IEEE, ASHRAE, EPA, Emerson/Liebert,
SPEC, LEED, The Green Grid, and the University of Colorado.
I would like to thank my management group in IBM’s System
Engineering, Architecture, & Test (SEA&T) group for their support for
this project. This management group includes my direct manager
Christin Brown, the SEA&T director Laurie Brickley, and the vice presi-
dent Damita McDougall. I would also like to thank my former SEA&T
manager, Vinny Buscher, for his continued support.
The three reviewers of the book proposal gave some excellent sugges-
tions. Those reviewers were Jody Cefola, IBM Global Technology
Services, Site and Facilities Services chief marketing officer for IBM’s
Big Green initiative; Mike Moran, at the time of the review, a
Distinguished Engineer for Content Discovery, IBM Software Group;
and Deana Borovich, at the time of the review, the Information
Technology architecture manager for the NiSource Energy Utility, head-
quartered in Merrillville, Indiana.
In addition, I would like to thank the five people who reviewed the
book as it moved toward publication readiness. Those five reviewers
follow:

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