COVID19 Led Virtualization: Green Data Center for Information Systems Research

ABSTRACT

Recent lockdowns over the world due to COVID19 pandemic accelerated virtualization of our social and work life. While virtualization contributes to reducing green-house-gas (GhG) through reduced mobility, it also dramatically increases energy consumption by data centers (DCs) which host large number of servers for realizing virtualization. This paper argues that current engineering-oriented studies on Green DCs need to be complemented by IS scholars to address human and organizational issues.

KEYWORDS:

• COVID19
• virtualization
• green information systems
• data centers

Acknowledgments

This study was supported by the GREENDC project, which received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 734273.

Notes

1. http://www.eco4cloud.com

2. https://project-catalyst.eu/

3. https://www.sardinasystems.com/

4. https://bodentypedc.eu/

5. http://www.greendc.eu

Additional information

Funding

This work was supported by the EU H2020 Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions [734273].

Notes on contributors

Habin Lee

Habin Lee is a chair of Digital Business Analytics at Brunel Business School, Brunel University London. He received a Ph D degree in Management Engineering at KAIST. His research interests include green information systems, computational social science, and virtual communities.

Youngseok Choi

Youngseok Choi is an Associate Professor at Southampton Business School, University of Southampton. He obtained a Ph D degree in Management Information Systems at Seoul National University. His research interests are mainly the application of data analytics to solving managerial problems.

Truong Van Nguyen

Truong Van Nguyen is a Lecturer at Brunel Business School, Brunel University London. He completed his Ph D study at the Business School, University of Greenwich. His research is centered on application of big data analytics and optimization techniques to supply chain management.

Yang Hai

Yang Hai is a Ph D student at Brunel Business School, Brunel University London. She received an MSc degree in Business and Management from University of Liverpool. She is working on simulation optimization for energy efficiency of data centers.

Junchul Kim

Junchul Kim is a Ph D student at Brunel Business School, Brunel University London. He received an MSc degree in Electronic Telecommunication from Inha University, South Korea. He has a long industrial experience at Korea Telecom before he started his Ph D course. He is doing research on simulation-based analysis of supply chain management focusing on supplier-buyer relationships.

Mohammed Bahja

Mohammed Bahja is a Lecturer at Computer Science department at the University of Birmingham. He received a Ph D degree in Computer Science from Brunel University London. His research interests include sentiment analysis and healthcare service quality management.

Hakan Hocaoğlu

Hakan Hocaoglu is a chair of Electronic Engineering at Gebze Technical University. He received a Ph D degree from University of Wales. His research interests include power system analysis, power quality and grounding.