Case Study on Green Cloud Computing: Benefits and Challenges

This case study provides an overview of green cloud computing, focusing on its potential to mitigate the environmental impact of IT resources. It explores the challenges associated with the increasing energy consumption of data centers and proposes solutions such as funding, training, and standardized government policies. The study also highlights the advantages and disadvantages of green cloud computing, including energy conservation and security concerns. It examines the applications of green cloud computing in industries, particularly in data center management, sustainable environment creation, and recycling. The conclusion emphasizes the importance of incorporating green cloud computing into IT resources to create a sustainable environment for future generations. The document includes references for further research and study, available on Desklib for students.

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Abstract
 This report focuses on green cloud computing and how it affects our
community.
 The research is based on a literature review on cloud computing and
how it can affect the environment around us.
 It focuses on how we can use our Information technology resources, to
come up with an efficient of conserving the global climate so that
future generations can benefit.

Introduction
 A green cloud is the benefits that information technology services can
offer to our environment.
 These services are provided over the internet to the community at
large.
 Green cloud computing is a system that can provide solutions to
conserving our environment.
 This research is focused on cloud computing and green cloud and the
challenges and solutions to it.

Literature review: About technology
 Green Cloud computing focuses on the issues in the environment that is as a result of
IT resources.
 The green cloud aims at ensuring that even with the advancement in technology; we
are still able to conserve our environment and not promote climate change.
 In Green Cloud, computing computers are used in an eco-friendly manner (Dabbagh,
Hamdaoui, Guizani & Rayes, 2015).
 The use of technology has advanced over the last few years which has led to a
growth in cloud computing.
 Data centers have also witnessed growth due to the increased cloud computing, and
this has increased the energy consumption in the world.
 The energy consumption has affected the environment since there is a shortage and
this causes carbon footprints. With a green

Problem
 The main problem is that with an increase in the number of data
centers in the world, the energy consumption has increased a lot.
 This causes a shortage of energy which affects our environment
through carbon footprints (Gai et al., 2016).
 Carbon footprints are the total number of greenhouse gases that an
individual, organization or product produces.
 It is expressed in terms of carbon dioxide, and an increase in the
carbon footprints results in global warming.

Research issues
 The first research issue is the cost.
 The second research issue is efficiency.
 The third research issue is the carbon footprints.
 The fourth issue is that many users including individuals and
organizations are not aware of cloud computing.
 The fifth issue is that there is no permanent government policy on
green cloud computing.
 The sixth issue is that green cloud computing requires skilled personnel
that many people do not have.

Solutions
 Some of the algorithms that can be used to solve these issues are
 Funding of the green cloud computing by sponsors or the government.
This will help in addressing the cost issues that are related.
 Training of people in organizations to acquire skills in cloud computing
as well as green cloud computing.
 The government needs to set a standardized policy on green cloud
computing to ensure that everyone abides by the rules.
 Companies need to come up with energy management systems that
will ensure they conserve enough energy and also minimize the use
(Farahnakian et al., 2015).

Future research
 The world of technology needs to be explored more because in the coming
years we will entirely rely on technology to carry out day to day activities.
 Therefore if we do not take steps to make it eco-friendly, we will not be
able to live in the world.
 More research also needs to be carried out on cloud computing as well as
green cloud computing.
 This is to come up with more efficient ways that will ensure that energy is
saved.
 One method which needs to be looked into is recycling since not all
wastes can be recycled

Advantages
 Some of the benefits of green cloud computing are:
 It ensures that energy is conserved and therefore there will be no
shortage of power.
 It provides the efficiency of information technology in that it offers
ways in which data centers can be more effective but still conserve
energy.
 It allows for the eco-friendly use of information technology resources.
This way as we use our technology, our society also benefits from the
conservation of the environment.

Disadvantages
 It is costly. Creating a green cloud computing is expensive and most
entities cannot afford it thus are not able to execute it.
 A green cloud computing does not provide assurance of security of
information. Therefore the information stored in data centers that
utilize green cloud computing are at a risk of information being leaked.
 Green cloud computing allows for more elasticity which results in less
control. When an organisation has less control of their data they are at
a risk (Jin, Wen, Chen & Zhu, 2013).

Applications in industries
 Used by data centers to improve efficiency and also to manage power
 Use to create a sustainable environment.
 Used in recycling.
 Industries have also applied the use of green cloud computing through
the management of power (Mehta, Singhal & Doshi, 2016).
 Industries have applied the use of green cloud computing in
virtualization.

Conclusion
 Green cloud computing is very essential in our world primarily because
of the rapid rise in the use of technology.
 If we want to create a sustainable environment for future generations,
then we need to highly consider incorporating green cloud computing
in our information technology resources.
 Organisations especially need to be encouraged to use green cloud
computing in their data centers to conserve energy.