Towards Energy Sustainability in Federated and Interoperable Clouds

TitleTowards Energy Sustainability in Federated and Interoperable Clouds
Publication TypeBook Chapter
Year of Publication2013
AuthorsCelesti, A., A. Puliafito, F. Tusa, and M. Villari
Book TitleCommunication Infrastructures for Cloud Computing
Pagination329–350
PublisherIGI Global Publisher
CityHershey, Pennsylvania, US
ISBN978-146664853-1;146664852X;978-146664852-4
Keywordscloud computing, Energy Efficiency
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.

URLhttp://www.igi-global.com/chapter/towards-energy-sustainability-in-federated-and-interoperable-clouds/82545
DOI10.4018/978-1-4666-4522-6.ch015