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The paper presents ICT environmental issues and discusses the transition towards green utility computing. Cloud services mainly based on virtualisation have a huge undiscovered yet potential to adequately address the issues of ICT to become greener alongside other economics (labour related costs such as people managing the ICT infrastructure). In order to outline the research agenda the paper includes a systemic / holistic analysis of the ICT development and usage as a pervasive/ubiquitous enabler in the daily life activities as well as different economic sectors (e.g. transportation, manufacturing, commerce, tourism etc.) and the increased environmental impacts. The main aim of this approach is the definition of a multi perspective research agenda for the development of an environmentally aware digital infrastructure to deploy green utility computing in the cloud. The increasing complexity of managing the whole infrastructure of platforms, people and services that transparently support ICT as a utility is also discussed. Some boundaries conditions are imposed.
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Neaga, E.I. (2013). A Digital Infrastructure for Green Utility Computing: The Preliminary Holistic Research Agenda. In: Yousif, M., Schubert, L. (eds) Cloud Computing. CloudComp 2012. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 112. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-03874-2_7
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