A decision framework for placement of applications in clouds that minimizes their carbon footprint

Journal of Cloud Computing

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Makkes, Marc X ^a,b   Taal, Arie ^a   Osseyran, Anwar ^c   Grosso, Paola ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b TNO   (Netherlands)

^c SURFSARA   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON FOOTPRINT; DIGITAL STORAGE; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ENERGY UTILIZATION;

CO2 EMISSIONS; DATA CENTERS; DECISION FRAMEWORK; REMOTE DATA CENTERS; REMOTE SITES;

GREEN COMPUTING;

EID: 84926426271     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2192113X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/2192-113X-2-21     Document Type: Article

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