Green Architectural Tactics for the Cloud

Author

Procaccianti, Giuseppe ; Lago, Patricia ; Lewis, Grace A.

Author_Institution

VU Univ. Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands

fYear

2014

fDate

7-11 April 2014

Firstpage

41

Lastpage

44

Abstract

Energy efficiency is a primary concern for the ICT sector. In particular, the widespread adoption of cloud computing technologies has drawn attention to the massive energy consumption of data centers. Although hardware constantly improves with respect to energy efficiency, this should also be a main concern for software. In previous work we analyzed the literature and elicited a set of techniques for addressing energy efficiency in cloud-based software architectures. In this work we codified these techniques in the form of Green Architectural Tactics. These tactics will help architects extend their design reasoning towards energy efficiency and to apply reusable solutions for greener software.

Keywords

cloud computing; energy conservation; green computing; software architecture; ICT sector; cloud computing; cloud-based software architectures; data centers; design reasoning; energy consumption; energy efficiency; green architectural tactics; greener software; information and communication technology; Cloud computing; Energy consumption; Green products; Monitoring; Servers; Architectural Tactics; Cloud Computing; Energy Efficiency; Software Architecture;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Software Architecture (WICSA), 2014 IEEE/IFIP Conference on

Conference_Location

Sydney, NSW

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WICSA.2014.30

Filename

6827097