Energy Efficiency and Environmental Considerations for Green Data Centres

The advancement in information and communication technology based businesses and social practices in last few decades have transformed many, if not most, economies into e-economy and businesses into e-businesses. Technology has the potential to create sustainable business and society both in grim an...

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Main Authors:	Uddin, M., Shah, Asadullah, Memon, Jamshed
Format:	Article
Published:	Inderscience Enterprises Ltd 2014
Subjects:	QA76 Computer software
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spelling	ump-75312018-04-06T08:05:15Z http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/7531/ Energy Efficiency and Environmental Considerations for Green Data Centres Uddin, M. Shah, Asadullah Memon, Jamshed QA76 Computer software The advancement in information and communication technology based businesses and social practices in last few decades have transformed many, if not most, economies into e-economy and businesses into e-businesses. Technology has the potential to create sustainable business and society both in grim and green economic times. Data centres are found major culprits in consuming too much energy in their overall operations and generating huge amount of CO2. This paper determines the properties and attributes of green IT infrastructures and provides ways for achieving green sustainable businesses. The proposed green IT attributes and characteristics using virtualisation technology are very industrious and efficient for data centres to be more energy efficient and green, hence reducing the emission of greenhouse gases so that the overall effect on global warming can be reduced or even eliminated. Inderscience Enterprises Ltd 2014-11-10 Article PeerReviewed Uddin, M. and Shah, Asadullah and Memon, Jamshed (2014) Energy Efficiency and Environmental Considerations for Green Data Centres. International Journal of Green Economics (IJGE), 8 (2). pp. 144-157. ISSN 1744-9928 http://www.inderscience.com/info/inarticle.php?artid=65852 DOI: 10.1504/IJGE.2014.065852
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description	The advancement in information and communication technology based businesses and social practices in last few decades have transformed many, if not most, economies into e-economy and businesses into e-businesses. Technology has the potential to create sustainable business and society both in grim and green economic times. Data centres are found major culprits in consuming too much energy in their overall operations and generating huge amount of CO2. This paper determines the properties and attributes of green IT infrastructures and provides ways for achieving green sustainable businesses. The proposed green IT attributes and characteristics using virtualisation technology are very industrious and efficient for data centres to be more energy efficient and green, hence reducing the emission of greenhouse gases so that the overall effect on global warming can be reduced or even eliminated.
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author	Uddin, M. Shah, Asadullah Memon, Jamshed
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title	Energy Efficiency and Environmental Considerations for Green Data Centres
title_short	Energy Efficiency and Environmental Considerations for Green Data Centres
title_full	Energy Efficiency and Environmental Considerations for Green Data Centres
title_fullStr	Energy Efficiency and Environmental Considerations for Green Data Centres
title_full_unstemmed	Energy Efficiency and Environmental Considerations for Green Data Centres
title_sort	energy efficiency and environmental considerations for green data centres
publisher	Inderscience Enterprises Ltd
publishDate	2014
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