Green Cloud Computing: A Review on Adoption of Green-Computing attributes and Vendor Specific Implementations

Abstract

With cloud computing emerging as a trending topic, it has been a major point o f discussion for the last few years. In regards to technological advancements, the associated shortcomings like environmental footprint caused by them also become an affair o f high significance. Cloud computing itself is a much greener alternative to individual data centers with lesser number o f servers being used and cloud data centers being far more efficient than those o f traditional thereby reducing the carbon impact. Nonetheless, it cannot be neglected the fact that the data centers utilized by the cloud vendors are still a major source o f carbon emissions due to the dirty energy usage. Therefore, the discussion o f the paper is based on how green the foremost cloud providers are and the implementations o f green IT attributes in the cloud infrastructure.