Abstract
The progressive upsurge in demand for processing and computing power has led to a subsequent upsurge in data center carbon emissions, cost incurred, unethical waste management, depletion of natural resources and high energy utilization. This raises the issue of the sustainability attainment in data centers of Information Technology (IT) based industries. Green computing practice can be applied to facilitate sustainability attainment as IT based industries utilizes data centers to provide services to staffs, practitioners and end users. But it is a known fact that enterprise servers utilize huge quantity of energy and incur other expenditures in cooling operations and it is difficult to address the needs of accuracy and efficiency in data centers while yet encouraging a greener application practice alongside cost reduction. Thus this research study focus on the practice application of Green computing in data centers which houses servers and as such presents the Green computing life cycle strategies and best practices to be practiced for better management in data centers in IT based industries. Data was collected through questionnaire from 133 respondents in industries that currently operate their in-house data centers. The analysed data was used to verify the Green computing life cycle strategies presented in this study. Findings from the data shows that each of the life cycles strategies is significant in assisting IT based industries apply Green computing practices in their data centers. This study would be of interest to knowledge and data management practitioners as well as environmental manager and academicians in deploying Green data centers in their organizations.
Highlights
Over the years the increasing need for computer related resources has resulted to a major growth in the figures of data center servers deployed along with an increase in the energy consumed by these servers
The metrics were derived from review of literature on Greening data center and Green computing practice application
The results show that all metrics were applied in the respondents data centers except from GPT2 which measure if the respondents organizations "Buys recycled Information Technology (IT) equipment for data center use"
Summary
Over the years the increasing need for computer related resources has resulted to a major growth in the figures of data center servers deployed along with an increase in the energy consumed by these servers. Data centers provides support to the present day digital economy based on the prevalent application and usage of cloud based services, but since data centers utilizes a substantial amount of power and releases Carbon dioxide (CO2) emission to the atmosphere [1], there is need for strategies, technics and technologies that can reduce CO2 emission from data center. Green computing is one of these technologies that can help lessen CO2 emissions in data centers. Green computing aims to deploy and utilize technologies for a cleaner and Greener planet. Green computing is mainly the study and practice of utilizing computing resources proficiently [2]. It is a paradigm towards practicing costeffective and environment friendly use of energy
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