Книга "Business Process on?Demand; Studying the Enterprise Cloud Computing and its Role in Green IT".Master's Thesis from the year 2011 in the subject Engineering - Industrial Engineering and Management, grade: 1, Vienna University of Technology, course: Business Engineering and Computer Science, language: English, abstract: Climate change and the impact it has on our lives have forced many governmental and alsonon-governmental organizations to conceive of new rules, regulations, and standards tocontrol CO2 and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Calculating the energy efficiency andreducing the electricity consumption in data centers are important steps towards greeningthe IT in organizations. Several studies have shown that by migrating into the cloud,companies in most cases could reduce their costs in addition to decreasing their greenhousegas emissions.Unfortunately, lack of guidelines and varying and limited services from different cloudproviders, have made the adoption of appropriate Cloud services a challenge for manyorganizations. In this regard, there is a vital need to study and analyze available servicesfrom different cloud vendors and provide enterprises with the best solutions availableregarding their specific business requirements.This thesis focuses on cloud computing and its efficiency for individual organizations. Itattempts to study the potential benefits of cloud computing by taking the environmentaland energy consumption advantages into considerati...