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Abhishek Agarwal et al., International Journal of Advanced Research in Innovative Discoveries in Engineering and Applications[IJARIDEA] Vol.1, Issue 1,27 October 2016, pg. 12-15

Enterprise-level Green ICT Using virtualization to balance energy economics Abhishek Agarwal1, Kriti Doneria 2 1,2

Galgotias University Plot no. 7,opposite BIC Gautam Buddha Nagar,U.P. India 1 doneriakriti@gmail.com 2 gyp.nirmaan@gmail.com

Abstract— The computing industry has been a significant contributor to global warming ever since its inception. Performance maximization per unit has cost remained the prime focus of academic and industrial research alike, ignoring environmental impacts in the process if any. However, the infamous global energy crisis has inevitably pushed power and energy management up the priority list of computing design and management activities for purely economic reasons today. Green IT lays emphasis on including the dimensions of environmental sustainability, the offsets of energy efficiency, and the total cost of disposal and recycling. A green computing initiative must be adaptive and flexible enough to be able to address problems that keep on increasing in size and complexity with time. Cloud computing concepts can invariably be applied to reduce e-waste generation. The service oriented architecture lends itself to incorporating green computing as a process rather than a product. Re-usability, extensibility and flexibility are some of the key characteristics which are inherent to the cloud and directly help address the vertical specific challenges to reducing energy consumption in the long run. Keywords— Cloud computing, Electronic waste, Green Information Technology, Service oriented architecture. I. INTRODUCTION

This Green IT, or ICT sustainability, is the study and practice of environmentally sustainable computing or IT[1]. This includes manufacturing, designing, usage and disposal of computing subsystems such as display, printing, storage and networking hardware effectively with minimal environmental impact.[2] Cloud computing is a technique for enabling over the network access to a shared pool of modular computing resources. Today, Moving companies to cloud is helping to contain potentially exponential growth of cross-vertical duplicate data centers. Rather than looking at the combination of two existing technologies as an answer, it makes much more sense to describe challenges in terms of questions the hybrid model is capable of addressing. Some questions include, but not limited to:• Can Cloud computing be an efficient driver for Green information communication technology? • Is Cloud computing here to stay? • Is the overhead of 'virtualizing' worth it? • Is Green computing a sustainable phenomenon to begin with? • Can we actually build models to harness the prowess, without considerable tradeoffs? II. THE 'DIRT' AND DEARTH OF ENERGY IN I.T. INDUSTRY

According to a study, the utilization of an on-premise data centre is not more than 6% on an average day.[3] This under- utilization is driven by dedicated server/task methodology that consolidates a powerful server for a single functionality. Additionally, Future-ready businesses often buy servers that are more powerful than needed. Most servers sit idle after the usual eight to ten hours of working day. System administrators, afraid of accidents simply leave about 30% servers up and running, doing no useful work at all. 12 © 2016, IJARIDEA All Rights Reserved


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