Achieving Energy Aware Mechanism in Cloud Computing Environment

Cloud Computing is an emerging technology and it provides pay-per-use computing model over the Internet without giving hassle of resource management to the users. With the increasing demand and usage of Cloud applications worldwide, the issues of energy consumption, carbon emission and operational cost require special attention. Many researchers have tried to address these issues in different facets. In this paper, we first explore few research carried out in the direction of energy efficiency. We further propose (a) architecture for energy-aware mechanism in Cloud and (b) pre-processing approach by considering Virtual Machine (VM) allocation and consolidation techniques as key factors to achieving energy efficiency in Cloud Computing.