Green Computing: Characteristics, Significance, Opportunities and Challenges

Business Information
Systems

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
Task 1.....................................................................................................................................1
Characteristics and global significance of green computing........................................1
Task 2.....................................................................................................................................2
Organisational opportunities and challenges by green computing...............................2
Task 3.....................................................................................................................................4
Overview of your business, the app, the BIS solution(s) and performance objectives.4
Proposals to address reduction in environmental impacts of computing resources......4
Proposals to address reuse of computing resources......................................................5
Proposals to address recycling of computing resources................................................6
Explanation of business strategy and analysis of how application of the above proposals
will contribute to the business strategy in terms of improved social, economic &
environmental impacts..................................................................................................6
Task 4.....................................................................................................................................7
Explanation of theories.................................................................................................7
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................9
References:.....................................................................................................................................10

INTRODUCTION
Business Information System assist with an information that any firm utilizes to manage it's
operational activities efficiently. It mainly involves advanced technology and computer systems.
Primary equipments that includes are people, process, data, hardware and software. It's process
consist documentation, designing and development. It essentially contains four key components
that are decision making, transaction and processing, flow of information and involvement of
function of an individual (Business Information Systems, 2020). The following discussion is
based on green computing, it's features and importance, challenges faced by a firm through
green computing, it's solutions, overview of the business, reusing and recycling of computing
resources, how these can impact a business strategy, theories to justify such elements and finally
the conclusion and findings. All these analysis is based on the firm, Virgin Media, it is one of the
leading international telecommunications company which is founded in 2006 in UK. It mainly
deals with telephone, internet services and television.
MAIN BODY
Task 1
Characteristics and global significance of green computing
Green computing is defined as the usage of computers in an environmental and ozone-
friendly manner. In other words, it is also referred as designing, engineering, manufacturing,
disposing or using of devices of computer in such way that decreases it's negative environmental
impact (Aithal, 2020).
Characteristics: Storage and creation of renewable energy: It generates and stores the energy which is
being to be renewed. Because generally computing devices are not that much
environment friendly but green computing has this feature which can prevent negative
environmental affection. Existing materials recycling: It allows recycling of already existence materials that saves
the environment from being affected in any way. Efficiency in energy: The energy which it is consuming to develop the materials and
manufacturing, it is characterised to use that energy in an efficient and effective manner.
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It's energy includes product distribution, manufacturing, installation, maintenance and
construction. Awareness: It helps in creating awareness of it's raw materials that it is using so that it
may not harm the nature in any way. It also includes the awareness of education and
compliance.
 Natural manufacturing: It tries at it's maximum to manufacture their product naturally
so that green computing can be manageable by them (Al-Somali, 2018).
Significance: It saves cost: Green computing use it's energy at it's minimal point and lowers it's
consumption. This makes the IT more efficient by usage of low electricity, system
designing for longer life, lowering the amount of waste and cost of components
purchased which can be a positive benefit to the environment. Reduction in environmental problems: It manufactures products using non toxic raw
materials such as lead, bamboo and copper. Controlling of E waste can be done by
repairing and up-gradation on time leads to easy and cheap way of manufacturing. Old
computer are being reused with the help of formal recycling.
 Reduction in energy consumption: It mainly focuses on efficient energy consumption
like they had replaced more power consumption to the OLEDs and had avoids E waste
putting into dumps (Couckuyt and Van Looy, 2019).
Task 2
Organisational opportunities and challenges by green computing
Opportunities:
 It is benefited to an organization as sustainable computing lowers the usage of green
house gas emissions, fossil fuel and energy consumptions which results in low cost
production and revenue generation in a more friendly manner.
 Organization has opportunities because it is cost effective due to cooling needs and less
energy usage, budget is managed in a firm because of less expenses due to green IT.
 Firm can be eco-friendly because it assist in effective and efficient utilization and
preservation of natural resources. Now a days people are more conscious about their
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