Manuscript Number : CSEIT1953139

Causes of Energy Wastage in Cloud Data Centre Servers : A Survey

Authors(3) :-Kenga Mosoti Derdus, Vincent Oteke Omwenga, Patrick Job Ogao

Datacenters are becoming the indispensable infrastructure for supporting the services offered by cloud computing. Unfortunately, datacenters consume a lot of energy, which currently stands at 3% of global electrical energy consumption. Consequently, cloud service providers (CSP) experience high operating costs (in terms of electricity bills), which is, in turn, passed to the cloud users. In addition, there is an increased emission of carbon dioxide to the environment. Before one embarks on addressing the problem of energy wastage in a datacenter, it is important to understand the causes of energy wastage in datacenter servers. In this paper, we elaborate on the concept of cloud computing and virtualization. Later, we present a survey of the main causes of energy wastage in datacenter servers as well as proposed solutions to address the problem.

Authors and Affiliations

Kenga Mosoti Derdus
Faculty of Information Technology, Strathmore University, Nairobi, Kenya
Vincent Oteke Omwenga
Faculty of Information Technology, Strathmore University, Nairobi, Kenya
Patrick Job Ogao
Faculty of Engineering Science and Technology, Technical University of Kenya, Nairobi, Kenya

Cloud Computing, Datacenter, Data Centre Energy Wastage, Virtualization

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Publication Details

Published in : Volume 5 | Issue 3 | May-June 2019
Date of Publication : 2019-06-30
License:  This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Page(s) : 416-430
Manuscript Number : CSEIT1953139
Publisher : Technoscience Academy

ISSN : 2456-3307

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Kenga Mosoti Derdus, Vincent Oteke Omwenga, Patrick Job Ogao, "Causes of Energy Wastage in Cloud Data Centre Servers : A Survey ", International Journal of Scientific Research in Computer Science, Engineering and Information Technology (IJSRCSEIT), ISSN : 2456-3307, Volume 5, Issue 3, pp.416-430, May-June-2019. Available at doi : https://doi.org/10.32628/CSEIT1953139
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