Abstract
Cloud computing has become an important driver for IT service provisioning in recent years. It offers additional flexibility to both customers and IT service providers, but also comes along with new challenges for providers. One of the major challenges for providers is the reduction of energy consumption since today, already more than 50% of operational costs in data centers account for energy. A possible way to reduce these costs is to efficiently distribute load within the data center. Although the effect of load distribution algorithms on energy consumption is a topic of recent research, an analysis-framework for evaluating arbitrary load distribution algorithms with regard to their effects on the energy consumption of cloud data centers is still nonexistent. Therefore, in this contribution, a concept of a simulation-based, quantitative analysis-framework for load distribution algorithms in cloud environments with respect to the energy consumption of data centers is developed and evaluated.
Recommended Citation
Splieth, Matthias; Bosse, Sascha; Schulz, Christian; and Turowski, Klaus, "Analyzing the Effects of Load Distribution Algorithms on Energy Consumption of Servers in Cloud Data Centers" (2015). Wirtschaftsinformatik Proceedings 2015. 20.
https://aisel.aisnet.org/wi2015/20