Contribution of cloud computing in the reduction of carbon dioxide emission

The Information Technology industry is rapidly expanding and as a result its contribution to carbon dioxide emission is also rapidly increasing. Fortunately, the cloud computing industry is perceived by many to be a viable solution for reducing carbon dioxide emissions. Accordingly, there are numero...

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Main Authors: Khan, Nusratullah, Nusatullah, Kajal, Shah, Asadullah
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spelling my.iium.irep.411312021-01-25T08:10:48Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/41131/ Contribution of cloud computing in the reduction of carbon dioxide emission Khan, Nusratullah Nusatullah, Kajal Shah, Asadullah T10.5 Communication of technical information The Information Technology industry is rapidly expanding and as a result its contribution to carbon dioxide emission is also rapidly increasing. Fortunately, the cloud computing industry is perceived by many to be a viable solution for reducing carbon dioxide emissions. Accordingly, there are numerous studies which try to prove that cloud computing can reduce carbon dioxide emissions up to more than half of the current carbon dioxide emissions. In this paper, two of such studies where reviewed to assess whether cloud computing is indeed a viable candidate for limiting and reducing the amount of carbon dioxide emitted by the IT industry. All the information gathered in this paper prove that; cloud computing is a promising technology which could reduce carbon dioxide emissions. The percentage of decrease can range from 10% to 90%. The effectiveness of the carbon dioxide emission reduction process is highly dependent on the size of the business organization. Accordingly the size of the organization is negatively correlated to the efficiency of carbon dioxide reduction. This means that as the size of the organization increase, carbon dioxide emission reduction decrease. This paper also presented the four reasons why cloud computing can reduce carbon dioxide emissions, which are: dynamic provisioning, multi-tenancy, server utilization, and data center efficiency. International Educative Research Foundation and Publisher (IERFP) 2014 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/41131/3/contribution-of-cloud-computing-ijier.net-vol-2-8_11.pdf Khan, Nusratullah and Nusatullah, Kajal and Shah, Asadullah (2014) Contribution of cloud computing in the reduction of carbon dioxide emission. International Journal for Innovation Education and Research, 2 (8). pp. 118-120. ISSN 1755-1528
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Contribution of cloud computing in the reduction of carbon dioxide emission
description The Information Technology industry is rapidly expanding and as a result its contribution to carbon dioxide emission is also rapidly increasing. Fortunately, the cloud computing industry is perceived by many to be a viable solution for reducing carbon dioxide emissions. Accordingly, there are numerous studies which try to prove that cloud computing can reduce carbon dioxide emissions up to more than half of the current carbon dioxide emissions. In this paper, two of such studies where reviewed to assess whether cloud computing is indeed a viable candidate for limiting and reducing the amount of carbon dioxide emitted by the IT industry. All the information gathered in this paper prove that; cloud computing is a promising technology which could reduce carbon dioxide emissions. The percentage of decrease can range from 10% to 90%. The effectiveness of the carbon dioxide emission reduction process is highly dependent on the size of the business organization. Accordingly the size of the organization is negatively correlated to the efficiency of carbon dioxide reduction. This means that as the size of the organization increase, carbon dioxide emission reduction decrease. This paper also presented the four reasons why cloud computing can reduce carbon dioxide emissions, which are: dynamic provisioning, multi-tenancy, server utilization, and data center efficiency.
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title Contribution of cloud computing in the reduction of carbon dioxide emission
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publisher International Educative Research Foundation and Publisher (IERFP)
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