Energy-aware resource allocation for an unceasing green cloud environment
Mukilan Karuppasamy, S. Suprakash, S. P. Balakannan · 2017
Nowadays the usage of Cloud computing services is expanding, because of the high usage of cloud. The Cloud resources face major drawback in energy consumption. The predominant components of energy consumption in cloud resources are by means of server, storage devices, network devices and power required to cool the IT load. The cloud resources contribute high operational energy cost and emit more carbon emission to the environment. Therefore the cloud services providers needs a green cloud environment resolution to decrease the operational energy cost along with environmental impact. The foremost objective of this work is to trim down the energy from utilized and unutilized (idle) cloud resources and save the energy efficiently. To achieve the unceasing green cloud environment, Ant Colony Algorithm is used here to choose the appropriate virtual services so that the power at the server, storage devices, and network resources can be reduced.