CASE STUDY :- The greening of data center

1. What business and social problems does data center power consumption cause?

The business of data center cause is such as video on demand, maintaining web sites, analyzing large pools of transactions or social media data that require more and more power-hungry machines businesses. Besides that, the social problem that the data center power consumption cause is high corporate operating costs.

2.What solutions are available for these problems? Are they management, organizational, or technology solutions? Explain your answer.

People, for example Acorda.
•  A $210 million-per-year maker of drugs to treat nervous disorders such as multiple sclerosis.
•  Installed motion sensors and invested in intelligent cooling system to boost energy efficiency at the new facility.
•  Preparing to test virtualized desktops.

Organizational, for example Facebook
• Publicly posted the specifications for the design of its data centers.
• Facebook’s engineers modified the programming in the servers.

Technology, for example cloud computing system
• Optimized for virtualization and for supporting as many different subscribing companies as possible.
• Produce major savings when doing the computing for large numbers of companies.


3. What are the business benefits and costs of these solutions?

Reduce the human resources in data centre
Virtualization in data centre helps to reduce the number of servers and storage resources in a firm's IT infrastructure.
Make firm more energy- efficient
Installed motion sensors will shut off light after five minutes if no movement is detected. This enable firm greatly reduce the power required to run workstation.
Reduce corporate operating costs


Intelligent cooling system will automatically changes setting of computer as the conditions change. intelligent cooling system helps the firm to save the electric supply and thus, reduce the operating costs.

4.Should all firms move toward green computing? Why or why not?

Yes. It is very efficient to reduce their power requirements
Reduce costs Reducing impacts on environmental and human health
Helps to minimize the energy consumption by educating consumers on efficient ways to keep power   usage low.

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