Security and Optimization Challenges of Green Data Centers

Abstract

Energy consumption in data centers has grown out of proportion in regard to the state of energy that's available in the universe. Technology has improved services and its application. The need for eco-friendly energy and increase in data centers performance brought about Green Computing into the energy consumption of data centers. Information technology has grown and eaten deep into the society that almost all the sectors if not all are dependent on information technology to move on. The consumption of power has increased greatly. In this research paper the techniques for optimizing energy in data centers for Green Computing would be discussed. This study intends to expose the limitations of existing security solutions for securing data centers by taking into consideration of limitations of existing security frameworks that cannot enhance the security of data centers.

Green Computing Approaches - A Survey

“…After measuring the efficiency of a data center in an industry, there must be certain measures taken in order to come up with an eco-friendly data center. In their study, Sari and Akkaya [43] mentioned that one of the greatest threats that affect green data centers can be divided into two groups. The first threat consists of the inability to manage the cost crises that are born due to the divergence in determining the efficiency performance technique and calculating the performance of the server.…”

Green Data Center : Reviews And Challenges.

“…A liquid cooling strategy or fresh air cooling was used to lower the cost of the cooling system in data centers because traditional air conditioning units couldn't produce a better cooling result. It is suggested to use a heat pipe-based ice storage method [22] This type of cooling system is location-based; it is set up in a region with low temperatures to allow for the creation of cold water, which lowers temperature and lowers energy consumption by data centers. Other suggested plans might be built around water cooling systems, where water circulates around parts that have obviously warmer areas.[?…”

“…A promising technology like virtualization software, which uses software called virtual machines and gives the same inputs, outputs, and desired type of behaviour from hardware, can be utilised to manage excessive server power utilisation. Various measurement measures were proposed in [22]] and [25]. This might quantify and measure the efficiency of data centers' air distribution.…”