A Comprehensive study on Cloud Green Computing: To Reduce Carbon Footprints Using Clouds

Cloud computing and Green computing are two most emergent areas in information communication technology (ICT) with immense applications in the entire globe. The future trends of ICT will be more towards cloud computing and green computing. Due to tremendous improvements in computer networks now the peopl e prefer the Network - based computing instead of doing something in an in - house based computing. In any business sector daily business and individual computing are now migrating from individual hard drives to internet servers. The concept of cloud computing has dramatically changed the classical method of computation. To save space, time and money, the people perform computation in Internet server instead of doing computation on a desktop or a laptop. The main issue in cloud computing is to save resources, time, cost and duplication of same data. Instead of upgrading software in a standalone machine, one can use the software in the cloud in web and save energy and money. In the present paper the authors tried to analyze the energy consumption of Cloud Compu ting by studying the clouds maintained by certain organizations and observing the energy benefits that they derive. The authors have also made study by which the carbon footprint can be reduced through Green Cloud Computing.