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The Greening of IT
xxx How Companies Can Make a Difference for the Environment

■ Chris Molloy, IBM Distinguished Engineer, IBM Integrated Technology
Delivery, Infrastructure & Resource Management. Chris is involved in all
aspects of IBM’s Big Green project. He had the wide perspective to
review all aspects of green IT technology.
■ Wayne Herr, IBM Global Technology Services, Site & Facilities Service
Products, CTO. Wayne is the Data Center infrastructure lead on the IBM
Green Data Center corporate leadership team. He is also IBM’s expert on
the data center infrastructure aspects of green IT with emphasis on best
practices for energy-efficient cooling.
■ Dr. Jean-Michel Rodriguez, Senior IT Architect, Compagnie IBM France,
IBM Customer Center PSSC Montpelier. Jean-Michel works with green
data centers in Montpelier, France; Beijing, China; and Poughkeepsie,
NY. He helped IBM widen its global look at green IT.
■ Dave Anderson, Green Architect, IBM Systems & Technology Group,
Enterprise Systems Division, IBM Energy Efficiency Initiative. Dave is
very much a green architect with an avid interest in all aspects of
green IT.
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■ Jody Cefola, IBM Global Technology Services, Site and Facilities Services
chief marketing officer for IBM’s Big Green initiative. Jody not only
served as a reviewer for the book proposal, but she also brought in her
experience in her review of the chapters dealing with the business aspect
of green IT.

Green IT requires the collaboration of many groups, so writing this
book also required collaborative input from many different groups and
individuals. Pirooz (Pete) Joodi, IBM Distinguished Engineer, provided
many insights regarding the broad business issues and potential solu-
tions to the green IT issue. Pete’s background (a Ph.D. in engineering
with a career in IT) is similar to my own, and that was a significant ben-
efit to our collaboration (that is, thinking in engineering terms). Brad
Brech, an IBM Distinguished Engineer in the Systems Technology
Group, served as our expert on energy management and contributed
information on the IBM Systems Director Active Energy Manager
(AEM) tool. Ravi Subramaniam, an IBM Software IT Architect, wrote
most of Appendix B on cloud computing. Cloud computing, the “ulti-
mate in virtualizing IT systems,” will continue to be an important
aspect of emerging technology for green IT, and the “cloud” will move
from being exclusively in the public Internet domain to the corporate