To celebrate Earth Day 2009, the TechNet Magazine team has just published a special online-only  Green IT issue for IT professionals.

This issue features a great collection of articles including:

• Framework for Building a “Hyper-Green” Virtual Server System
• Planning Your Power Management and Virtualization Strategies
• Essential Tools for Planning Your Virtual Infrastructure
• Enforce Power Management Settings in your Organization with Group Policy
• Sleep or Hibernate?
• Is It Time to Turn Off Your Servers?
• Conserving Energy with Group Policy
• Plan and Optimize Your Infrastructure to be Energy Efficient with System Center
• Build a Green Datacenter

In addition, you will find the free Microsoft Virtualization Solution Accelerators useful in helping you jump-start your Go-Green projects:

• Assessing Virtualization Candidates with Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit
• Planning a Successful Virtualization project with Infrastructure Planning and Design Guides
• Get other free Virtualization Solution Accelerators

Baldwin Ng

Sr. Product Manager | Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit | Infrastructure Planning and Design Guides Series