Description

Energy consumption is the consumption of energy or power. Cloud Computing is a developing technology which is revolutionizing the IT Infrastructure due to its high scalability and flexibility in providing the computing resources as services on demand. The energy consumption of under-utilized resources, particularly in a cloud environment, accounts for a substantial amount of the actual energy use. Inherently, a resource allocation strategy that takes into account resource utilization would lead to a better energy efficiency; Cloud data centers are made up of large servers which consume a great amount of power which will in turn increase the operating costs and the environmental impact in terms of CO2 emissions. Hence, Cloud Computing solutions are extremely effective in terms of processing power and storage but are often criticized for the high amount of energy they require. Efficient energy use, sometimes simply called energy efficiency, is the goal to reduce the amount of energy required to provide products and services. In this project, the system presents some potential solutions to reduce cloud data center energy consumption. That solution is to exploit the virtualization technology to save energy.