Energy efficiency with an application container

Efficient use of energy is an issue that the information technology (IT) world gives prominence to both inacademia and industry. Cloud computing and the Internet of things, today’s most popular subjects, make the efficient useof resources and energy even more important. Every year, millions of smart devices connected to the Internet increase thedemand for data center capacity to provide service to those devices. This increases energy consumption in the IT sector.Thus, more efficient use of energy in these systems is of critical importance. The increase in the migration to cloudcomputing makes fast and efficient infrastructure-as-a-service and platform-as-a-service services provided by Internetservice providers important. On the other hand, virtual machines have been used for a long time as an alternativeto physical servers. The application containerization concept is shaping the virtualization world by offering fasterdeployment, reduced resource consumption, easier manageability, and reduced energy consumption, as demonstrated inthis study. Our study shows that this new concept is more energy-efficient than virtualization technologies that arecurrently being used.

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