An investigation into energy efficiency of data centre virtualisation

Proceedings - International Conference on P2P, Parallel, Grid, Cloud and Internet Computing, 3PGCIC 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 157-163

  Pretorius, M ^a   Ghassemian, M ^a   Ierotheou, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GREENWICH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Carbon footprint; Data centre energy consumption; Green information technology; Server virtualisation

Indexed keywords

CARBON EMISSION REDUCTIONS; CARBON EMISSIONS; DATA CENTRES; UNIVERSITY OF GREENWICH; VIRTUALISATION;

CARBON FOOTPRINT; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; EMISSION CONTROL; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ENERGY UTILIZATION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; INTERNET;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 84869043107     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/3PGCIC.2010.28     Document Type: Conference Paper

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