Green Computing
“Green Computing: Current Trend in Network Design and Management”
Introduction
Recently, the rapid adoption usage of Information Technology (IT) has exploded in various areas. IT have given us a lots of benefit to us by improving our daily lives,reduce our workload, and communicate with each other beyond the boundaries at anytime and anywhere. With of all these excitement plus the advancement in mobile devices, people start to forget that all these good things can cause very serious harm to the society and even to the world.
If we turn back time to about a decade ago, when IT are about to start to develop all around the world, the big issues about the environment are global warming, open burning, cut down trees illegally, disposal of toxic goods to the river, air pollution and green house emission. At that time, governments are trying very hard to alerting society about how important to take care about the environments and to keeps the world as a better place for the next generation. Many initiatives have been made and some are very successful. However now, the world is now evolving to the new world where IT became the most important element in our lives and because of that also make IT became the main factors contributed to environmental problems. Unfortunately, lots of people do not realize it. Even some them said IT is a savior that help reduce the consumption of paper and activities cut down trees illegally.
IT has been contributes lots to the environmental issues. For example, desktop, laptop and other IT hardware consume higher amounts of electricity and even contributing to greenhouse gas releases. The worse is even during its manufacture and its disposal also contributes to environmental problems (Murugesan, 2008).
In order to minimize environmental impacts of IT, green computing initiatives has been enforce. Green computing is defined as a study of the effective design, plan, produce, dispose, and recycle of
Introduction
Recently, the rapid adoption usage of Information Technology (IT) has exploded in various areas. IT have given us a lots of benefit to us by improving our daily lives,reduce our workload, and communicate with each other beyond the boundaries at anytime and anywhere. With of all these excitement plus the advancement in mobile devices, people start to forget that all these good things can cause very serious harm to the society and even to the world.
If we turn back time to about a decade ago, when IT are about to start to develop all around the world, the big issues about the environment are global warming, open burning, cut down trees illegally, disposal of toxic goods to the river, air pollution and green house emission. At that time, governments are trying very hard to alerting society about how important to take care about the environments and to keeps the world as a better place for the next generation. Many initiatives have been made and some are very successful. However now, the world is now evolving to the new world where IT became the most important element in our lives and because of that also make IT became the main factors contributed to environmental problems. Unfortunately, lots of people do not realize it. Even some them said IT is a savior that help reduce the consumption of paper and activities cut down trees illegally.
IT has been contributes lots to the environmental issues. For example, desktop, laptop and other IT hardware consume higher amounts of electricity and even contributing to greenhouse gas releases. The worse is even during its manufacture and its disposal also contributes to environmental problems (Murugesan, 2008).
In order to minimize environmental impacts of IT, green computing initiatives has been enforce. Green computing is defined as a study of the effective design, plan, produce, dispose, and recycle of
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