Energy-Efficient Cloud Computing

Energy efficiency is increasingly important for future information and communication technologies (ICT), because the increased usage of ICT, together with increasing energy costs and the need to reduce green house gas emissions call for energy-efficient technologies that decrease the overall energy consumption of computation, storage and communications. Cloud computing has recently received considerable attention, as a promising approach for delivering ICT services by improving the utilization of data-centre resources. In principle, cloud computing can be an inherently energy-efficient technology for ICT provided that its potential for significant energy savings that have so far focused on hardware aspects, can be fully explored with respect to system operation and networking aspects. Thus this paper reviews the usage in the context of Cloud Computing, of methods and technologies currently used for energy-efficient operation of computer hardware and network infrastructure. After survey...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2010
• Where: CJ
• Authors: Andreas Berl, Erol Gelenbe, Marco Di Girolamo, Giovanni Giuliani, Hermann de Meer, Minh Quan Dang, Kostas Pentikousis
• Keywords: CJ 2010, Cloud Computing, Cloud Computing Environments, Image Analysis, Overall Energy Consumption