08-16-2017, 09:35 PM
GREEN CLOUD -A Data Center Approach
Green Cloud
Study and Practice of designing, manufacturing, using and disposing computing resources with minimal environmental damage
Energy Star, OECD
Product Longevity- Carbon Footprint
Steps : -
Algorithmic Efficiency
Resource Allocation
Virtualization-IBM, Intel, AMD
Terminal Servers-thin clients, Terminal Services, LTSP
Power Management- APM ,ACPI, undervolting(SpeedStep)
Data Center Power-Google Inc.
Material Recycling
Green IT in developing regions
Development of ICT
Moving Processor and Data closer to the User
Public Policy measures-Germany example, PP
Locating Data Centers in the developing world
Economic Growth
Case Study in South Africa
During 2010, the cell phone company s South Africa IT landscape continued to increase in size and complexity, here is analysis of benefits to a cell phone company.
1100+ Server Instances
40% - 60% - estimated spend on maintaining current IT infrastructures versus adding new capabilities
87.03% avg .idle The company has an average of 12.97% CPU usage across platforms test is lower