Model for Monitoring Sustainable Green SLA Parameters in Modern Computing Industries

Abstract

Green SLA (GSLA) is a formal agreement between service providers/vendors and users/customers incorporating all the traditional/basic commitments (Basic SLA) as well as respecting the Ecology, Economy and Ethics (3Es) for sustainable development. Nowadays, modern computing industries such as IT (Information Technology) and ICT (Information and Communication Technology) are trying to incorporate sustainability under green computing lens. At the same time, users/customers are also moving forwards to a new sustainable society. Therefore, while getting or providing various services from many computing industry, GSLA becomes significant for both the service providers and users/customers to achieve sustainability in their field. Moreover, most of the basic SLA parameters are quantitative and they are simple, easy to evaluate, control and monitor whereas GSLA parameters are difficult to monitor, and there are very few research have done in this area. This research proposes an idea to evaluate and monitor some important newly identified green parameters through interacting basic SLA parameters in the networking domain of modern computing industries. The proposed idea will be guideline for the green expert/CEO of ICT/IT industries to incorporate green parameters in their GSLA to achieve sustainability.