Sustainable Communications Infrastructures in the Cloud - Supporting the Information Economy

In recent years energy consumption from ICT has increased due to the popularity of cloud computing. This consumption is also estimated to double every five years. A key topic of recent research is the focus on increasing the energy efficiency of ICT, in particular the area of cloud computing. In our research we aim to improve the energy efficiency of cloud computing data centres while maintaining the Quality-of-Service (QoS) expected. A literature review has been conducted into various methods of increasing energy efficiency and the beginnings of experimentation into our own research and theories have been documented in this paper.