TOWARDS AN INTEGRATED APPROACH FOR RESOURCE-EFFICIENCY IN SERVER ROOMS AND DATA CENTERS

This paper conceptualizes a hybrid package of products and services which ensures the energy efficient planning, realization and operation of IT infrastructure. It follows the well-established procedure model of product-service systems engineering and pursues a qualitative research approach that is based on two industry workshops with more than 60 participants from science and practice and on semi-structured interviews with 8 experts. Based on the findings from the interviews and the workshops, customer requirements to the hybrid package are described, a product model is developed and evaluated. Finally, an application scenario is derived

Design Science Research in Green IS - Analyzing the Past to Guide Future Research

The field of Green IS research addresses the environmental challenges of our rapidly growing economy. IS-based solutions are valuable tools for emissions reduction and waste mitigation. The development of novel sustainable IS artifacts falls in the domain of Design Science Re-search. Applying the Design Science Research paradigm helps to design, develop, improve and implement IS related artifacts to solve prevailing problems or challenges. Hence, regarding sustainability, it acts as an aid to the goals of Green IS. Thus, the development of novel sustain-able artifacts falls in the intersection of Green IS and Design Science Research. We analyze the relationship between Design Science Research and Green IS by providing a deeper understanding of current research knowledge and opportunities at the intersection of these two important IS topics. Based on these findings, we present five directions for future re-search that aim to facilitate further contributions to theoretical knowledge, Design Science Re-search, and sustainable solution development in the field of Green IS

Multi-disciplinary Green IT Archival Analysis: A Pathway for Future Studies

With the growth of information technology (IT), there is a growing global concern about the environmental impact of such technologies. As such, academics in several research disciplines consider research on green IT a vibrant theme. While the disparate knowledge in each discipline is gaining substantial momentum, we need a consolidated multi-disciplinary view of the salient findings of each research discipline for green IT research to reach its full potential. We reviewed 390 papers published on green IT from 2007 to 2015 in three disciplines: computer science, information systems and management. The prevailing literature demonstrates the value of this consolidated approach for advancing our understanding on this complex global issue of environmental sustainability. We provide an overarching theoretical perspective to consolidate multi-disciplinary findings and to encourage information systems researchers to develop an effective cumulative tradition of research