Green cloud computing: A review on Green IT areas for cloud computing environment

Abstract

With the increasing growth of large data storage and computational demand, Green Cloud Computing is known to be a broad area and hot field for research. To capitalize various IT resources, Cloud computing has produced an ultimate and impressing way to virtualize servers and data centers and to make energy efficient. The IT resources consume huge amounts of power and energy, which in turn produces shortage in energy and change in global climate. Therefore, there is a need of Green cloud computing which can produce solutions that can not only make the IT resources energy efficient but also minimize the operational costs. To solve environment related issues in the field of IT, Green IT is named to be an important step. It includes a huge number of focus areas for instance to provide proper management of power, virtualization of servers, design of data centers, recycling methods, eco-labeling, environment sustainability design and energy efficient resources etc. In this review firstly, a brief discussion on Cloud and Green computing is given then various application areas of Green IT are discussed and reviewed further. Based on the comparative analysis on Green-IT areas several research issues related to concerned Green IT areas, Objectives of such areas etc. are elaborated further.

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“…The application areas for green IT includes proper power management, server visualisation, design of data centers plus eco-labelling for IT products. Other important areas include environmental sustainability plus the design and energy efficient resources [5]. While [6] defined green IT as a "study area that deals with designing, manufacturing, using and disposing of computers, servers and associated sub-systems such as monitors, printers, storage devices and networking and communication systems efficiently and effectively with minimal or no impact on the environment".…”

“…The most concern areas that were given much attention recently are power management and energy efficiency. While areas like sustaining the natural resources by providing a green scenario with cost-efficiency, carbon emissions reduction, virtualization of servers and management of servers were less focused in the past and hence require much attention in order to overcome the challenges associated with these areas [5] [6] Figure 1. below presents the major green IT concern areas.…”

“…• In terms of hardware with interest in technologies with lower energy consumption together with economic efficiency in respect of recycling [5]. However, have gone through the field of green IT, it's now imperative and ideal to discuss the concept of cloud computing as a whole.…”

“…[5].4) Hybrid CloudHowever, hybrid cloud emerged from public and private clouds diffusion. The model allows organisations to outsource less priority information processing to the public cloud while keeping classified services and data under their control.…”

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“…Data yang besar mengacu pada sekumpulan data (koleksi data) yang diterima dari berbagai alat masukan sehingga dibutuhkan tata kelola yang baik. Komputasi awan menyediakan infrastruktur yang memadai untuk memenuhi persyaratan skema penyimpanan data yang handal dan besar yang didukung oleh penggunaan kembali, integrasi, analisis dan berbagi informasi yang dibutuhkan yang mana adalah penyedia layanan awan (cloud service provider) menyediakan fasilitas tersebut [10].…”