Environmental and Green Cloud Computing

Cloud computing is extremely scalable and profitable infrastructure for functioning High Performance Computing, enterprise and Web applications. Due to a rising demand of Cloud infrastructure has raised the energy consumption of data centers, which has become a crucial issue. Tremendous energy consumption not only converts to high operational cost, which reduces the profit margin of Cloud providers, but also leads to high carbon emission which is not eco-friendly. Energy efficient solutions are required to reduce the impact of Cloud computing on the environment. For designing the solution, deep study of Cloud is required with respect to their power efficiency. In this paper, we discuss about Cloud which contribute to the total energy consumption and how it is addressed in the literature