Green Cloud Computing For Environmental Sustainability And Resource Efficiency

Growth in E-waste and Need for Green Computing

Discussa about the Project management for academic research projects.

It is identified that there is an enhancing growth in the generation of e-waste. In the year 2010, there was 252574 tons of waste generated out of which 19714 tons of the waste is from various manufacturing industry of Australia. The enhancing growth in the generation of e -waste is contaminating the environment and creating number environmental issues as well as challenges. Moreover, further research suggests that the rates of energy consumption by the data centers are also quite high.

In order to save the environment from contamination, it is very much necessary to adopt green cloud computing technology within the organization as green cloud computing not only helps in minimizing environmental footprints that are associated with technology but also assists in utilizing resources quite efficiently. It is found that adoption of green cloud computing helps in enhancing environmental sustainability, improves corporate images, utilizes resources efficiently as well as assists in saving cost.

The research questions are as follows?

• How green cloud computing helps in resolving the issues that are related with e-waste?
• What are the steps that need to be adopted for implementing green computing?
• What are the advantages of green cloud computing?

 Green cloud computing helps in reducing the growth in the e-waste that is generated by various manufacturing industries. According to OECD, 14 tons of Co2 emission occurs which is vastly contaminating the environment and green growth of the organizations are generally going to die (Farahnakian et al., 2015). However with the adoption of green cloud computing, the organizations generally utilizes four main approaches that mainly includes green use, green disposal, green design as well as green manufacturing. It is stated by Gai et al., (2016) that green cloud computing mainly aims to attain economic viability by improving the ways in which the computer related devices are generally utilized.

 The steps that are necessary in order to implement green cloud computing are as follows:

 Energy efficient data center design: According to Hashem et al., (2015), energy efficient data center design mainly include heat recovery, electrical configuration, air management in a proper way in order to reduce energy consumption to a great level. The modern design of data center also includes waste heat recycling as well as electricity generation.

Follow basic computer related ethics: It is stated by Farahnakian et al., (2015) that proper basic computer ethics must be followed which include enabling PC power management feature of the operating system, utilizing LED monitors, avoiding screen saver as well as utilizing sleep mode whenever the PC is kept ON. All this steps are necessary in order to avoid green cloud computing.

Benefits of Green Computing

E-waste recycling:  E-waste recycling is considered as one of the significant step that generally reuses or recycles e-waste. It is very much necessary to contribute the e-waste to various charities as well as non-profit organizations instead of throwing it.

Telecommunication: It is opined by Jo, Maksymyuk, Strykhalyuk and Cho (2015) that telecommunication is a work arrangement with the help of which people from their home can be able to utilize email, telephone as well as internet. In order to implement green cloud computing it is very much necessary to use teleconferencing, telepresence as well as telework interchangeably.

The advantages of green cloud computing includes:

 Environmental sustainability: It is stated by Zhou et al., (2016) that green cloud computing assists in ensuring the productiveness as well as diversity of various biological systems as it generally creates negative impact to various processes with the help of green use, design, disposal as well as green manufacturing.

Cost saving: Green cloud computing assists in utilizing resources quite efficiently and thus it helps in saving the entire operational costs.

Better utilization of resources: According to Bitam, Mellouk and Zeadally (2015), green cloud computing is one of the powerful approach that helps in utilizing resources including office space, data centers, computers in a very much environmental friendly way

Improved corporate and social image: Green computing is quite advantageous for the business in improving their corporate image by meeting various regulatory compliance as well as requirements. It is considered as one of the proper way in meeting the sustainability demands of the employees as well as customers.

 The paper mainly utilizes system development life cycle (SDLC) methodology in order to illustrate the stages that is mainly involved in the development of green cloud computing project. By utilizing this system development methods project managers can be able to track the progress of the project goals (Alshamrani & Bahattab, 2015).  The SDLC methodology is mainly utilized as with the help of this methodology, the various stages of the project can be easily understood.

 It is identified that secondary data analysis is mainly undertaken in order to collect proper data as well as information that is mainly associated with green cloud computing It is identified that number of journals articles are generally reviewed in order to collect information about the benefits as well as system design methods that can be utilized in order to develop the technology of Green cloud computing.

Steps for Implementing Green Cloud Computing

The ethical issues that can occur while undertaking the research includes the following:

Carefulness: While undertaking research it is very much important to avoid various types of careless mistakes in order to avoid ethical issues.

Confidentiality: It is very much important to respect anything that is mainly provided in confidence. If proper guidelines are not followed then it can cause loss of various types f confidential information and data.

Human subject protection: The people who are mainly engaged with the research must not be harmed in order to avoid ethical issue as well as for protecting human subject’s protection rights.

 The various government as well as workplace regulations that must be followed within the research include the following:

 Occupational safety and health act: The occupational safety and health act must be adopted within the organization in order to provide proper safe environment to the workers. This act also helps in responding towards growing number of deaths as well as serious injuries that is mainly occurring within the workplace (Awad, Sakr & Elgammal, 2015).

Maintaining safe and healthy work environment: It is very much necessary to maintain safe and healthy working conditions in order to maintain a safe workplace. It also assists in avoiding workplace accidents.

After the adoption of green cloud computing by 5 Australian industries, it is identified that rate of e-waste generation mainly reduces by 70% by those manufacturing industries. Thus, it can be analyzed that adoption of green cloud computing assists in reducing the growth of e-waste within the environment. It is found that green cloud computing not only helps in resolving the issues within the environment that mainly occur due to rising e-waste from various manufacturing industries however it also assists in helps in improving the condition of the environment sustainably. In addition to this it is analyzed that if green cloud computing technology is adopted by all the Australian manufacturing industries then the percentage of Co2 emission will be reduced by 30%.

The deliverables of the project mainly includes:

• Appointment of working group for green IT
• Measurement of current carbon footprints that is produced by IT components
• Planning number of centralized IT operations
• Utilization of more efficient computer applications
• Careful weight age of IT devices as well as accessories
• Business performance enhancement through various green IT policies
• Working with people involved in IT process life cycle
• Result monitoring and continuous optimization

Risk	Description	Impact	Likelihood	Mitigation techniques
Schedule slippage	Schedule slippage generally occurs due to improper management and it generally can extend the completion time of the project which further enhances project budget.	High	Medium	It is very much necessary to utilize proper management practices within the project in order to avoid schedule slippage.
Inappropriate budget assumption	Inappropriate assumption of budget can create obstruction in the project progress.	High	Medium	Proper market analysis must be done before assuming the budget for the project.
Security issues	Due to improper security, there are chances of data loss, hijacking accounts as well as abuse of cloud services.	High	High	In order to resolve this issues, it is very much necessary to use proper security measures.

Task Name	Duration	Start	Finish
Green cloud computing	32 days	Tue 3/20/18	Wed 5/2/18
Initiation phase	9 days	Tue 3/20/18	Fri 3/30/18
Development of business case	3 days	Tue 3/20/18	Thu 3/22/18
Undertaking feasibility study	2 days	Fri 3/23/18	Mon 3/26/18
Establishing project charter	3 days	Tue 3/27/18	Thu 3/29/18
Appointing team members of the project	4 days	Tue 3/27/18	Fri 3/30/18
Milestone 1: Completion of project initiation phase	0 days	Thu 3/29/18	Thu 3/29/18
Planning phase	10 days	Fri 3/30/18	Thu 4/12/18
Creation of project plan	3 days	Fri 3/30/18	Tue 4/3/18
Development of resource plan	2 days	Fri 3/30/18	Mon 4/2/18
Creating financial plan	3 days	Wed 4/4/18	Fri 4/6/18
Creating development plan	2 days	Wed 4/4/18	Thu 4/5/18
Developing quality plan	3 days	Tue 4/3/18	Thu 4/5/18
Developing risk management plan	4 days	Mon 4/9/18	Thu 4/12/18
creation of communication plan	3 days	Mon 4/9/18	Wed 4/11/18
Milestone 2: Completion of planning phase	0 days	Thu 4/5/18	Thu 4/5/18
Execution phase	19 days	Fri 4/6/18	Wed 5/2/18
Proclamations of green intentions	6 days	Fri 4/6/18	Fri 4/13/18
Appointment of working group for green IT	5 days	Fri 4/6/18	Thu 4/12/18
Measurement of current carbon footprints that is produced by IT components	6 days	Mon 4/16/18	Mon 4/23/18
Planning number of centralized IT operations	5 days	Fri 4/13/18	Thu 4/19/18
Utilization of more efficient computer applications	7 days	Fri 4/13/18	Mon 4/23/18
Careful weight age of IT devices as well as accessories	4 days	Tue 4/24/18	Fri 4/27/18
Business performance enhancement through various green IT policies	5 days	Fri 4/20/18	Thu 4/26/18
Working with people involved in IT process life cycle	7 days	Tue 4/24/18	Wed 5/2/18
Result monitoring and continuous optimization	6 days	Tue 4/24/18	Tue 5/1/18
Milestone 3: Completion of execution phase	0 days	Fri 4/27/18	Fri 4/27/18
Closure phase	3 days	Mon 4/30/18	Wed 5/2/18
Post project review	2 days	Mon 4/30/18	Tue 5/1/18
Stakeholder sign off	1 day	Mon 4/30/18	Mon 4/30/18
Documentation	1 day	Wed 5/2/18	Wed 5/2/18
Milestone 4: Completion of closure phase	0 days	Mon 4/30/18	Mon 4/30/18

Milestone	Completion date
Milestone 1: Completion of project initiation phase	Thu 3/29/18
Milestone 2: Completion of planning phase	Thu 4/5/18
Milestone 3: Completion of execution phase	Fri 4/27/18
Milestone 4: Completion of closure phase	Mon 4/30/18

The steps to ensure complete delivery of project include:

• If the project does not faces any type of unforeseen problems
• No occurrence of scope creep within the project

The process of monitoring project progress includes:-

• Tracking progress of the project on a weekly basis
• Arranging meeting with the team members of the project
• Designing efficient plan of the project

Figure 1: Gantt chart

(Source: Created by Author)

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