Safari Books Online Hosts Complimentary Webcast With Grow a Greener Data Center Author Douglas Alger

SEBASTOPOL, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Safari® Books Online (www.safaribooksonline.com), the leading on-demand digital library for technology, digital media, and business professionals, announced today that it will host a complimentary webcast on Thursday, Sept. 24 at 9 a.m. PDT / 12 Noon EDT with Douglas Alger, author of the new book by Cisco Press titled Grow a Greener Data Center: A guide to building and operating energy-efficient, ecologically sensitive IT and Facilities infrastructure.

Normal data centers have a huge environmental impact, using massive amounts of energy and water, emitting pollutants, and discarding huge quantities of machine waste. For data center designers and IT professionals, it is possible to design a data center that consumes fewer resources, costs less money to run, has a longer usable lifespan, and can even highlight a company’s social responsibility. Author Douglas Alger makes the business case for greening data centers and presents technologies, design strategies, and operational approaches to help any company improve the energy efficiency and “eco-friendliness” of their IT hosting environments.

During the 60-minute webcast on Sept. 24, Alger will discuss:

• Greening physical construction, power, cooling, and servers
• Equipment consolidation, virtualization
• Available utility and government incentive programs
• Cost-effective water and conservation, recycling, and e-waste management
• Limiting environmental impact through siting, building materials, landscaping, and job-site construction practices

To register for this complimentary event, please visit: http://www.safaribooksonline.com/events/greenerdatacenter.html. The first 10 attendees to sign up and attend will receive a free autographed copy of Grow a Greener Data Center by Cisco Press, and all webcast attendees will receive 45 days of complimentary access to the book on Safari Books Online. Subscribers can download and print content and can view the content online or in PDF format from a computer or mobile device like the iPhone/iPod touch.

“Green topics are gaining a lot of popularity in today’s business environment, but companies are often at a loss how to turn conversation into action,” said Paige Mazzoni, VP of Marketing, Safari Books Online. “Douglas Alger has some fantastic ideas that the data center industry should embrace to make sure new data centers are energy efficient.”

About Safari Books Online

Safari Books Online (www.safaribooksonline.com) is an on-demand digital library that delivers expert content in both book and video form from the world’s leading authors in technology and business. Technology professionals, software developers, Web designers, and business and creative professionals use Safari Books Online as their primary resource for research, problem solving, learning and certification training. Safari Books Online offers a range of product mixes and pricing programs for organizations, government agencies and individuals. Subscribers have access to thousands of books, training videos and prepublication manuscripts in one fully searchable database from publishers like Cisco Press, Prentice Hall Professional, O'Reilly Media, Addison Wesley Professional, Microsoft Press, Sams, Que, Peachpit Press, John Wiley & Sons, Elsevier, IBM Press, Adobe Press, Sun Microsystems Press, FT Press, Wharton School Publishing, Apress, Manning, New Riders, Apple Certified, Course Technology, Splash Media and dozens more. For more information about Safari Books Online, please visit us online.

About Pearson

The global leader in educational and professional publishing, Pearson is home to such respected brands as Addison-Wesley Professional, Cisco Press, Exam Cram, IBM Press, Prentice Hall Professional, Que, and Sams Publishing, which have as their online publishing arm InformIT - The Trusted Technology Learning Source. In addition, Berkeley-based Peachpit, the publishing partner for Adobe Press, Apple Certified, and others, publishes best-selling books for creative design professionals. Pearson's other primary businesses include the Financial Times Group and the Penguin Group.

About Douglas Alger

Alger is the IT Architect for Physical Infrastructure for Cisco Systems, where he develops architecture roadmaps, solutions and policies for the physical elements of the company's data centers and other critical facilities. He has more than 18 years of varied professional experience including more than 12 years in data center physical design and operations, IT project management, construction project management and IT infrastructure management. Alger has managed over 80 major data center projects, from all-new construction to major retrofits, and also authored Build the Best Data Center Facility for Your Business. He has logged more than 250 speaking appearances for various corporate engagements and data center industry conferences.