[CAnet - news] Infrastructure as a web service to reduce carbon emissions

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[I received several interesting responses on my recent posting on Internet
Evolution on Infrastructure as a web service (IaaS). Enabling the IT
infrastructure as a Web service allows administrators to virtualize not only
computing resources but also a variety of LAN and WAN network hardware and
storage devices including routers, switches, application servers, etc.

http://www.internetevolution.com/author.asp?section_id=506&doc_id=142359

As Paul Whyte reports in his response "there is a company in Indianapolis
who are pioneering efforts in this direction:http://www.bluelock.com). Going
through their website makes interesting reading as they catalogue the
financial, technical and business benefits of IaaS."  

Eoin Kenney from Heanet comments that "infrastructure as web service ..is
happening from a whole bunch of different directions. For example, Amazon
have already provide infrastructure web services and you can build your own
APN [Articulated Private Network] using Amazon web services as 
building blocks.... Putting all these web services together, storage,
bandwidth etc and you get your own APN. Its only a matter of time before
some student starts providing a simple little GUI that will do all of this
for you. 

Alan Judge of Amazon gave a great presentation at the recent HEAnet
conference on how researchers and educators can use Amazon Ec2/S3 in  IaaS
applications. A good example is the UC Santa Barbara program: Scalable
Internet Services. Course materials, lessons learned, and projects all
available online: http://courses.voneicken.com/ucsb-cs290f-fa06

Finally the New Scientist article " Can we stop the internet destroying our
planet?" brings this all together by pointing out the new "Green Grid"
initiative which is a partnership of Microsoft, IBM, Sun and Dell to explore
how data centres can be made more energy efficient to support these new IaaS
applications and services. 

The New Scientist also reports that IBM "...pledged to invest $1 billion
annually in a project called Big Green, which aims to double computing
capacity at IBM's data centres without increasing energy consumption. 
Like many members of the Green Grid, IBM is making virtualisation software a
central part of its greening strategy... virtualisation is now seen as the
low-hanging fruit in data centres' green transition."

http://technology.newscientist.com/channel/tech/mg19726372.700-can-we-stop-t
he-internet-destroying-our-planet.html

The ultimate goal as I have reported in the past is to build zero carbon
data centers in order to assist companies and individuals to relocate their
energy consuming computers and servers to these facilities. More importantly
zero carbon data centers will enable the next generation of high speed
Internet applications that will be used to trade bits and bandwidth for
carbon. 

For more information please see my Green Broadband/IT blog at
http://green-broadband.blogspot.com
--BSA]



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