From Green Computing to Sustainable IT: Developing a Sustainable Service Orientation

Harmon, Robert R.; Demirkan, Haluk; Auseklis, Nora; Reinoso, Marisa

doi:10.1109/hicss.2010.214

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“…It represents a strategy aiming at reducing the carbon footprint (CF) of printing books. 1 www.gdrc.org…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Besides the benefits that IT brings us, it also contributes significantly to environmental problems [1]- [4], not only because of the electricity consumed by computers, data centers, networks, and other IT utilities, but also due to the short life cycle of IT hardware. While "going green" has become a global topic in recent years, making IT greener has been attracting tremendous attention from both academia and industry aiming at understanding and reducing the energy consumption of computing systems [5], [6].…”

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confidence: 99%

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Aligning economic impact with environmental benefits: A green strategy model

Lago

Potenza

2012

2012 First International Workshop on Green and Sustainable Software (GREENS)

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Abstract-To achieve lower energy consumption many green strategies (e.g. virtualize applications and consolidate them on shared server machines, or optimize the usage of the private cloud by opening up to external consumers) have been discussed. In practice, however, the major incentive for a company to go green is reducing costs. While green strategies often focus on technical and environmental issues, they hardly address the economic impact that they may bring. If green strategies do not lead to an explicit (and significant) reduction of costs (hence increase in revenues) they are nice but not part of the business strategy of the company. In this paper we propose a green strategy model that provides decision makers with the information needed to decide on whether to take green strategies and eventually how to align them with their business strategies. This model provides a means to codify green strategies in such a way that the link between green strategies, their economic impact and green goals becomes explicit. We applied the model in a case study to codify 132 green actions collected from Dutch data centers. This exercise further confirmed the advantage of using the proposed model and helped us identifying future improvements.

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“…It represents a strategy aiming at reducing the carbon footprint (CF) of printing books. 1 www.gdrc.org…”

Section: Definitionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Aligning economic impact with environmental benefits: A green strategy model

Lago

Potenza

2012

2012 First International Workshop on Green and Sustainable Software (GREENS)

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“…However, besides the benefits that ICT brings us, it also contributes significantly to environmental issues [13] [11], not only because of the electricity consumed by computers, data centers, networks or other ICT utilities, but also due to the rapidly growing computation needs of emerging software systems that contribute significantly to ever increasing energy demands and greenhouse gas emissions [21] [1]. Decreasing ICT operation expenses becomes more and more crucial.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Economic Aspects of Green ICT

Fernández¹,

Procaccianti²,

Lago³

2015

Green in Software Engineering

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Environmental concerns increasingly become a priority and a global issue. In spite of that, the major incentive for a company to go green is reducing costs and increase revenues. While green ICT practices mostly focus on environmental and technical issues, they barely address the implicit economic impact that they may have. This aspect is critical in the decision-making process for many researchers and practitioners that need to estimate upfront the financial impact of applying a practice. As a consequence, we believe users can minimize these issues by using the following two approaches: (i) a green model to visualize the business value exchanged between enterprises and end-users when applying a green strategy; and (ii) a system to calculate the cost savings that would be obtained when applying a green practice on a pre-existing ICT solution. In this chapter, we propose using the e 3 value technique to model and perform trade-off analysis among alternative green practices, particularly from an economic perspective. Moreover, we have designed and implemented a Web-based software tool that enables to analyze and calculate the direct and indirect economic impact of a practice before it is adopted in production. These two approaches are the first step towards calculating how much green ICT costs, and motivating organizations to reuse green ICT solutions based on informed decisions.

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“…The concept of Sustainable IT aimed to broaden this focus. It is defined by the use of Green IT practices, adding value to customers, stakeholders, and society to provide long-term benefits in economic, social, and environmental pillars (Harmon et al, 2010).…”

Section: Sustainability Green It and Sustainable Itmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Another concept similar to Green IT and Green Software is Sustainable IT, which is characterized by the application of IT practices and technologies for the benefit of customers and others stakeholders that ensure long-term well-being in economic, social, and environmental sustainability pillars (Harmon, Demirkan, Auseklis, & Reinoso, 2010).…”

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Sustainability in Information Technology: An analysis of the aspects considered in the model Cobit

2017

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Parallel to the development of technology in its different fronts and particularly about the various applications of Information Technology (IT), another trend that has been consolidated in organizations is the search for sustainability. There are initiatives such as Green IT, Sustainable IT, and Green software that combine these two elements (IT and sustainability). In this context, this study aims to identify the presence of sustainability aspects in the COBIT (Control Objectives for Information and Related Technologies) model of IT management. Thus, this article seeks to verify if and how versions 4.1 and 5 of the COBIT model-which guide IT managers in the alignment of technical activities with the organization's strategy-are related to sustainability, through the use of sustainability indicators defined by the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) as a representative proxy of sustainability aspects necessary for the user organization of the model. This exploratory research makes use of documental research and presents the following main results: (1) partial alignment of the COBIT model with the generic categories of the GRI, especially the governance category; and (2) it highlights the small relation of this model with broader environmental and social aspects in the same way that it presents relationship limitations with economic aspects evaluated by the GRI.

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From Green Computing to Sustainable IT: Developing a Sustainable Service Orientation

Cited by 42 publications

References 19 publications

Aligning economic impact with environmental benefits: A green strategy model

Aligning economic impact with environmental benefits: A green strategy model

Economic Aspects of Green ICT

Sustainability in Information Technology: An analysis of the aspects considered in the model Cobit

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