This document discusses green cloud and software from a telecommunications perspective. It provides context on Orange's involvement in cloud computing, including evolving their hosting offers and mass market services. The document outlines opportunities for Orange in cloud computing, including optimized infrastructure and providing storage services. It discusses data center energy consumption and strategies for energy savings, including software-based approaches from EnergeTIC and CoolIT projects. An example project called CloudForce is described that aims to develop an open platform to manage applications across multiple cloud infrastructures with self-management, elasticity, and a focus on energy savings using the Entropy VM manager. Some open issues around data center energy use and cloud computing sustainability are also raised.

1. Green Cloud and Software:
A Telco View
Symposium INEOV « Innover par les
usages : logiciel et green IT »
Grenoble, 7 juin 2011
Thierry Coupaye (PhD), Alexandre Lefebvre (PhD)
Orange Labs, Grenoble
© Orange Labs, Research & Development 2011

2. Agenda
 Orange, cloud computing & green IT
 A few facts about “green IT”, “green cloud”, “green data centers”
 A R&D cloud project with an software-managed energy concerns
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3. France Telecom Orange
On the move At home
 Europe leader for broadband
Internet (ADSL) with around
 N°3
in Europe for mobile with
193 millions 13,4 millions customers
around 133 millions customers
customers in  8,4
millions residential home
 Around27 millions broadband
32 countries gateways Livebox, key
mobile customers with access to
component to get access to
Orange world mobile portal.
broadband services
 N°1in Europe for IPTV (ADSL)
with over 3.2 million customers
At work
 WithOrange Business Services,
one of the leaders in the world
(220 territories)
 Providestelecommunication
services to more than 3 750 MNC
(Multi National Companies)
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4. Orange involvement in Cloud Computing
1. evolution of hosting offers for enterprise market “Cloud Computing is here to drive the IT
ecosystem so traditional ICT providers
cloud services offers (XaaS) must transform or die.”
for multinational companies, large national accounts, Yankee Group, 2008
and medium and small enterprises
2. evolution of mass market services platforms and networks
• personal communications, audiovisual, storage,, healthcare,
gaming, M2M, transport… “Cloud computing holds enormous
potential for telecom service providers if
• network virtualization, network services virtualization
they get aggressive about driving
technological innovation there.”
Telephony Online, April 2009.
3. evolution of information systems
– network and service provisioning and management, customers
management, business intelligence, billing…
– human resources, inventory (network, suppliers), finances…
’’Le Cloud Computing est dans notre
4. embodiment of Future Internet Architecture ADN’’.
Orange Business Services, Dec. 2009
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5. Opportunities for Orange in Cloud Computing
 Optimized (cost, flexibility) ITN business support infrastructures
 Provide on-demand provisioning, reliability and security on the enterprise market
 Provide storage services for user generated content on the residential market
 Leverage ubiquity of mobile devices
 Leverage network assets
 Green computing
 orporate Social Responsibility
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 ost/competitive advantage
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Source: BT web based survey, 2009
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6. Data Center Energy Consumption (1/2)
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7. Data center energy comsumption
Source: US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), 2006
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8. Energy Savings Strategies
Source: IDC
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9. Software to help save energy
 EnergeTIC collaborative project
– http://multicom.imag.fr/recherche/spip.php?article164
– 3 modes: reactive, anticipative, continuous
– includes pattern detection and prediction
 CoolIT collaborative project
– shows necessity of software for taking decisions and placing tasks on
the infrastructure
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10. Example of the CloudForce project
 CloudForce labelled by Minalogic, Systematic, SCS
– Project proposal under evaluation
 Goals
– open PaaS platform to manage the lifecycle of complex distributed
applications
– from Think to Build to Run
– multi-IaaS compatibility
– self-management and elasticity at runtime
– open source dissemination of results through OW2 www.ow2.org
 Includes flexible and customizable components
– Use of Entropy for energy savings
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11. Entropy: VM manager for clusters
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12. Entropy: VM manager for clusters
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13. Some (controversial) issues
 Is data center really the problem?
 Is cloud really “greener”?
 Recycling?
 What about renewable electricity?
 Does industry really care about
sustainability (“green washing”)?
13 Source: Greenpeace, Make IT Green report, 2010

14. Merci !
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