Abstract
Green IT is a mission to reduce carbon emissions of information technology. Although immediate savings come from hardware, software also plays an important role. Since a software has a life cycle, it creates direct and indirect carbon emissions: it has a carbon footprint.
In this paper we present an approach to analyse software carbon footprints. We analyse a typical software life cycle step by step and give estimates of how large carbon footprints each step produces. A software vendor that claims to be green needs to show that his software has a small carbon footprint. From the green software point of view, it matters how to develop and deliver software, and how usable the software is.
In this paper we present an approach to analyse software carbon footprints. We analyse a typical software life cycle step by step and give estimates of how large carbon footprints each step produces. A software vendor that claims to be green needs to show that his software has a small carbon footprint. From the green software point of view, it matters how to develop and deliver software, and how usable the software is.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Software Business : First International Conference, ICSOB 2010, Jyväskylä, Finland, June 21-23, 2010, Proceedings |
| Editors | Pasi Tyrväinen, Slinger Jansen, Michael Cusumano |
| Number of pages | 12 |
| Volume | 51 |
| Publisher | Springer |
| Publication date | 2010 |
| Pages | 151-162 |
| ISBN (Print) | 978-3-642-13632-0 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2010 |
| MoE publication type | A4 Article in conference proceedings |
| Event | ICSOB 2010 - Jyväskylä, Finland Duration: 21 Jun 2010 → 23 Jun 2010 Conference number: 1 |
Fields of Science
- 113 Computer and information sciences
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