Energy and Expenditure Aware Data Replication Strategy
Résumé
Energy saving is a major challenge for Information Technology (IT) companies that aim to reduce their carbon footprint while providing large scale cloud services. These companies often rely on data replication technique in order to satisfy tenant's objectives, e.g., performance, especially with the increasing volume of data distributed throughout the world. In this paper, we propose a static and multi objective data replication strategy (E2ARS) that aims to reduce both energy consumption and expenditure of the provider. E2ARS leverages on cloud heterogeneity and energy efficient technologies. We first compare different policies of our strategy, from only taking energy consumption into account to only taking expenditure into account. Unsurprisingly, the more you want to reduce the energy consumption, the less you replicate. Then, we compare E2ARS with strategies from the literature. E2ARS reduces both energy consumption and expenditure where those strategies satisfy only one of the two objectives.