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, PPP
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