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Jonathan

Hujsak’s chapter on “sustainability’ really tails Hugos closely as it

does the previous chapter on green. Many of the arguments in both

previous chapters are reincarnate in this chapter. I do not see much

value in re-discussing electricity and the carbon footprint. I was

struck by several aspects of this chapter. The author writes (187):

“Information technology holds the promise of revolutionary improvements

in global enterprise sustainability that will dramatically enhance

enterprise agility, increase operational efficiency, and even turn cost

centers into profit centers.” Several innovations in data management are

reshaping the IT landscape. These are discussed in the chapter: server

virtualization, storage virtualization, desktop virtualization, and the

near future network virtualization. As an executive, the question raised

by the chapter regarding virtualization as a sustainability strategy is

less than a yes/no, but a when/how. We will ask ourselves, and discuss,

the extent to which the virtualization of processing portends the

removal of a dedicated IT staff. We will discuss the extent to which the

CIO is no longer the manager of a dedicated expert staff, but fully

engaged in vendor management and service oversight. Finally we should

ask ourselves the extent to which bricks and mortar will even define the

corporation as an entity. The corporation, or at least its

administrative wing, is more of an abstract. Does it matter if the

processing engine of your corporate data is in Bangladesh or Nairobi?

Does it matter what flag the vendor’s employees salute or what god they

worship? Once we have achieved global network infrastructure stability

and redundancy, we may find ourselves seriously questioning our

understanding of “corporation” or even employment.

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Virtualization is a sustainable strategy as it looks at the aspects to do with energy
efficiency, reliability, performance, optimizing energy efficiency as well as analysing the
planned workload. “In order to understand, the aspect of virtualization we can look at the
following; storage virtualization, desktop virtualization and network virtualization” by Garg
& Eisenhardt, (2016).
Storage virtualization
Stenzel well illustrates as we have seen in the exhibit 5.7 entails the approaches being
used in hardware consolidation as well as utilization optimization. Heterogeneous storage
resources are moulded in a way that they appear as a logical unit of storage at the same time
being uniform. Any capacity requirement of any device is reduced hence increasing the
device utilization. It aims to reduce reductant hardware with the help of introducing
virtualization. On the other hand, storage capacity of any given device is reduced to half
capacity or even more than that.
Desktop virtualization
“Desktop virtualization is another example that shows virtualization is a sustainable
strategy. It is simply the modification of desktop software to a more managed virtualized
service. The advantage of this is to the users as they work less accommodating more complex
enterprise” (Pahnke, 2015). A good example is the Citrix Nirvana Phone which simply means
a desktop in the user’s pocket. Users can use their phones to perform all the functions of a
desk top. The benefits are availing opportunities at a lower cost. It also saves space. Using a
desktop requires a huge space than when using a mobile phone. In addition, the workers a...


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