FIT4Green aims at contributing to ICT energy reducing efforts by creating an energy-aware layer of plug-ins for data centre automation frameworks, to improve energy efficiency of existing IT solution deployment strategies so as to minimize overall power consumption, by moving computation and services around a federation of IT data centres sites.
The FIT4Green optimization layer will not compromise compliance with Service Level Agreements (SLA) and Quality of Service (QoS) metrics, and will operate on top of current data centre management tools to orchestrate the allocation of ICT resources and turn off the under-or unused equipment.
The project will consider the deployment of whole IT solutions, from client devices to the data centres where applications and services are dynamically allocated, including the impact of the networks that provide connectivity and re-deployment capability.
The project rationale builds on the following shortcomings of current systems:
- Virtualization, consolidation and data centre automation techniques provide a means to achieve flexibility of IT solutions; however reduced energy consumption (achieved as a side effect of the reduction in the number of servers) is generally not considered among the Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) of the deployment options;
- Current Service Level Agreements do not include any metrics related to environmental footprint.