Paper Title
Investigation On Energy Utilization In Cloud Data Centers

Abstract
Abstract— Cloud computing has revolutioned the ICT industry by enabling on-demand provisioning of computing resources. An organization can either outsource its computational needs to the cloud avoiding high up-front investments in a private computing infrastructure and consequent maintenance costs, or implement a private cloud data center to improve the resource management and provisioning processes. The global energy consumption of IT equipment is steadily rising and produces an increasing portion of global energy production. Currently, data centers consume about 1.5% of global electricity production, whereby their total energy usage has almost tripled between 2000 and 2010.The increasing demand of computational power, especially in current cloud computing environments, is an important reason for the rising number of running computers as well as increasing energy consumption.