Dashboard for Assessing Data Centers Green Compliance

Abstract

Abstract: Nowadays, ICT sector activities and in particular Data Centers are known as an important environmental hazard. With the increasing popularity of the Internet and cloud computing, this threat seems to even get worse in the near future. Despite this increasing importance, there is still little have been done about data centers environmental affects and in particular measuring their green compliance level including all three Rs of waste management (Reuse, Reuse and Recycle). This paper tries to introduce a dashboard for evaluating data centers level of green compliance regardless of their tier. However, the dashboard is proposed based on Malaysias data centers condition, it still can be beneficial to data center managers in other parts of the world and researchers to open up new research possibilities.