Energy-Aware and Power Efficient Cloud Computing: Aashka Kotecha, Shailee Patel
Energy-Aware and Power Efficient Cloud Computing: Aashka Kotecha, Shailee Patel
Energy-Aware and Power Efficient Cloud Computing: Aashka Kotecha, Shailee Patel
Infrastructure-as-a-Service
I. INTRODUCTION
Cloud computing can be defined basically as a
technology that uses a network of remote servers which are
hosted on the Internet to store, manage, and process data,
instead of a local server or a personal computer. It can also be
called as a virtualized third-party hosting or pay-as-muchyou-use model.
In a cloud computing service, instead of renting
some portion or entire part of an actual physical server from a
hosting company, what one can do is to hire a certain amount
of server . The server runs inside a virtual container, which,
without interrupting any service can be shifted from one
physical server to another. The container is also able to span
multiple physical machines, giving them strong limitless
resources.
In other words, Cloud computing can also be defined
as a new approach for the dynamic provisioning of computing
services which support state-of-the-art data centres that
usually employ Virtual Machine (VM) technologies. Leading
companies like Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, and IBM 2 are
rapidly deploying datacentres in various locations around the
world to deliver Cloud computing services.[1]
The three major characteristic features that differentiate cloud
from other traditional hosting are:
Platform-as-a-Service
mobile phones, or PDAs and all such kind of static and mobile
devices.
The end users interact with clients to manage their
information on the cloud. Clients generally fall into three
categories:
1. Mobile: Mobile devices include PDAs or
Smartphone, like a Blackberry, Windows Mobile
Smartphone, or an iPhone.
Datacenter:
Datacenter can be defined as a collection of servers
where the application which are subscribed, resides. It could
be a large room in the basement of your building or a room
full of servers on the other side of the world that you access
via the Internet. The future of IT world is leading towards
virtualizing servers. That is, software can be installed allowing
multiple instances of virtual servers to be used. In this way,
you can have half a dozen virtual servers running on one
physical server.
Distributed servers:
The servers need not be present at the same location,
instead they can be at different geographical locations. But to
a cloud subscriber, it appears as if these servers are placed
right next to each other. This gives the service provider more
flexibility in options and security. For instance, Amazon has
their cloud solution in servers all over the world. If something
were to happen at one site, causing a failure, the service would
still be accessed through another site. Also, if the cloud needs
more hardware, they need not throw more servers in the safe
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V. CONCLUSION
We can hence conclude that cloud computing can be made
more efficient only if server's energy consumption in the
cloud is saved. In this paper we have suggested some
techniques that can reduce power consumption in cloud and
hence make it more energy efficient. This paper presents that
the performance of cloud mainly depends on the
performance data centres. Green Computing is the future
technology that supports environment, reuse consumed power
and energy, and optimize the resources efficiently. Green
computing focuses on reduction of CO2 emission in
environment and thus makes
IT industry environment friendly.
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