Bio-inspired service management framework: green data-centres case study

The internet is evolving into a full-scale distributed service platform, offering a plethora of services from communications to business, entertainment, social connectivity and much more. The range of services and applications offered is diversifying, with new applications constantly emerging. For example, utility-based computing e.g. HPC and cloud computing which relies heavily on data-centre resources. These services will be more dynamic and sophisticated, providing a range of complex capabilities, which puts further burden on data-centres, in terms of supporting and managing these services. At the same time, society is becoming acutely aware of the significant energy burden the communications industry, and in particular data-centres, are becoming. With these trends in mind we propose a biologically inspired service framework that supports services which can autonomously carry out management functions. We then apply this framework to address the emerging problem of a sustainable future internet by autonomously migrating services to greener locations.