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- Title
Green Cloud Computing and Economics of the Cloud: Moving towards Sustainable Future.
- Authors
L. N., Prasanna N. Balasooriya; Wibowo, Santoso; Wells, Marilyn
- Abstract
With the increasing popularity of cloud computing services, it is becoming more and more important for cloud service providers to ensure that they fulfill their responsibility towards the society by minimizing the environmental impact of their business operations. The high electricity needs of datacenters make cloud computing companies consume an extremely large amount of electricity. To deal with this issue, these companies are starting to adopt renewable sources of energy to power their datacenters for reducing the negative environmental impact. The purpose of this paper is to review the green Cloud and economic benefits of green Cloud. Therefore, it has been found that dynamic provisioning, multi-tenancy, server utilization and datacenter efficiency are major factors that could be used to minimize the power consumption while increasing environmental sustainability. The paper concludes that (a) economical viability of green Cloud adoption, (b) the location datacenter that needs to be considered during green Cloud adoption, (c) the utility providers that provide green energy at competitive prices, and (d) the generation of energy at on-site will be costly, but mixes of energy sources such as wind and coal will cost companies 13% more.
- Subjects
CLOUD computing; SUSTAINABILITY; NETWORK PC (Computer); ECONOMICS
- Publication
GSTF Journal on Computing, 2016, Vol 5, Issue 1, p15
- ISSN
2010-2283
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5176/2251-3043_4.4.347