Evaluation of server virtualization technologies for Green IT

Abstract

Service oriented computing (SOC) and cloud computing paradigm has emerged as an approach which enables ubiquitous, on-demand network accesses to a shared pool of flexibly reconfigurable computing resources. The increasing trends of electrical consumption within data centres are a growing concern for business owners as they are quickly becoming a large fraction of the total cost of ownership. There are several challenges and opportunities within a data centre to lower the electrical costs and improve the energy efficiency. Since servers and air conditioners represent the top users of electrical power in the data centre, this research sets out to explore methods from each subsystem of the data centre as part of an overall energy efficient solution. In this paper, we investigate the current trends of Green IT awareness and how the deployment of IT equipment and Site Infrastructure equipment optimization techniques which can offer a solution to a global issue by reducing carbon emissions.