Need of Green Computing Measures for Indian IT Industry

Abstract

In the last few years there has been a lot of hype about Green computing and about providing greener computing solutions to almost everything. Green computing is a new approach which aims at designing computer systems that achieves better processing and performance with least amount of power consumption. Numerous studies and surveys have already shown that the power costs put together form the lion’s share of total costs of management of a data center. Till now green computing measures had been restricted to mainly achieve lower power consumption within the organizational framework. In this paper we have tried to illustrate the importance of green computing beyond minimizing power consumption and towards delivering better customer value and finally achieving the ultimate goal of sustainable IT growth.

Keywords: green computing; virtualization; server power; sustainable IT ; Green IT