Towards Energy Sustainability in Federated and Interoperable Clouds

Towards Energy Sustainability in Federated and Interoperable Clouds

Antonio Celesti (University of Messina, Italy), Antonio Puliafito (University of Messina, Italy), Francesco Tusa (University of Messina, Italy) and Massimo Villari (University of Messina, Italy)
Copyright: © 2014 |Pages: 23
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-4852-4.ch015

Abstract

Cloud federation is paving the way toward new business scenarios in which it is possible to enforce more flexible energy management strategies than in the past. Considering independent cloud providers, each one is exclusively bound to the specific energy supplier powering its datacenter. The situation radically changes if we consider a federation of cloud providers powered by both a conventional energy supplier and a renewable energy generator. In such a context, the opportune relocation of computational workload among providers can lead to a global energy sustainability policy for the whole federation. In this work, the authors investigate the advantages and issues for the achievement of such a sustainable environment.
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In the Section hereby, the early part analyzes works falling into energy saving and green energy topics aimed at datacenter. While in latter part, several works dealing with cloud and federation are reported. In the end, we provide a survey on Green IT solutions aimed at cloud computing.

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