A Categorization of Green Practices used by Dutch Data CentersQING GUPATRICIA LAGOHENRY MUCCINISIMONE POTENZAPRESENTED BY: GIUSEPPE PROCACCIANTI

MOTIVATION

A Categorization of Green Practices used by Dutch Data Centers

The energy usage of data centers is growing fast.

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MOTIVATION

A Categorization of Green Practices used by Dutch Data Centers

Practices and strategies for

improving the energy efficiency of data

centers are typically kept in-house.

PROBLEM STATEMENT

A Categorization of Green Practices used by Dutch Data Centers

How to encourage knowledge sharing of energy efficient ICT solutions?

STUDY DESIGN

A Categorization of Green Practices used by Dutch Data Centers

In our previous work we introduced an approach and a model used to codify green practices.

Q. Gu, P. Lago, and S. Potenza. “Aligning Economic Impact with Environmental Benefits: A Green Strategy Model.” In First International Workshop on Green and Sustainable Software (Greens 2012), co-located with ICSE, pp. 62-68. IEEE, 2012.

STUDY DESIGN

A Categorization of Green Practices used by Dutch Data Centers

We gathered 83 green ICT practices adopted by Dutch data centers.

We analyzed all practices and categorized them in order to make them more reusable.

CATEGORIZATION BASED ON CONCERNS

A Categorization of Green Practices used by Dutch Data Centers

CATEGORIZATION BASED ON GOALS IN RELATION TO CONCERNS

A Categorization of Green Practices used by Dutch Data Centers

CATEGORIZATION BASED ON RELATION TO SOFTWARE

A Categorization of Green Practices used by Dutch Data Centers

CATEGORIZATION BASED ON THE ROLE OF IT

A Categorization of Green Practices used by Dutch Data Centers

CONCLUSIONS

A Categorization of Green Practices used by Dutch Data Centers

Categorizing green ICT practices is one of the best ways to make them reusable.

CONCLUSIONS

A Categorization of Green Practices used by Dutch Data Centers

The majority of practices is related to hardware.

CONCLUSIONS

A Categorization of Green Practices used by Dutch Data Centers

Further research is needed to realize sustainable and energy efficient software.

An online open library of green ICT practices(http://www.greenpractice.few.vu.nl)

A Categorization of Green Practices used by Dutch Data Centers

CATEGORIZATION BASED ON CONCERNS

A Categorization of Green Practices used by Dutch Data Centers

CATEGORIZATION BASED ON GOALS IN RELATION TO CONCERNS

A Categorization of Green Practices used by Dutch Data Centers

CATEGORIZATION BASED ON RELATION TO SOFTWARE

A Categorization of Green Practices used by Dutch Data Centers

CATEGORIZATION BASED ON THE ROLE OF IT

A Categorization of Green Practices used by Dutch Data Centers