Special Issue(24-23): Cloud Computing for Corporate Sustainability in Digital Era | International Journal of Automation and Smart Technology

Cloud Computing for Corporate Sustainability in Digital Era

Cloud computing has emerged as one of the most powerful and disruptive technologies transforming IT. Clouds are a large group of computers known as servers connected to the internet. Cloud computing is a model for enabling convenient, on-demand access to shared pools of data, computational power, and storage in which the underlying capacity is provided as a service. The cloud ensures that the data and applications are available to users anywhere, anytime across any device, along with strong security features to ensure that it remains private. Cloud computing can be for several reasons: to save space on your hard drive, using advanced software solutions, or to keep files saved and backed up in a protected location.

Cloud computing plays a significant role in corporate sustainability as it promotes the essential idea of a shared economy. It incorporates the life-cycle analysis and assesses the environmental impacts at all stages, right from manufacturing to transportation, installation, usage, and recovery or disposal. Cloud computing is considered responsible for reducing carbon emissions; it allows customers to access their services at any time while reducing their power consumption. With cloud computing, companies can share their servers and disk space virtualization technologies that allow several virtual machines to run on a single physical server to optimize resource utilization. Data centers' efficiency increases with cloud computing as customers primarily create most of the data themselves.

Cloud Computing is set to make a huge impact on the business world. It does not only help in the reduction of costs, but it is also creating entirely new ways of communicating and collaborating for business organizations. Cloud computing brings the concept of green information technology by recycling its resources completely from one area to another. Cloud computing is uniquely suited to be the disruptive technology that helps bring down emissions and save energy in IT. It pools vast amounts of distributed computing power, storage, applications, and other resources on-demand—matching them to user needs as they arrive online. In addition, it also helps in the conservation of energy by providing smart work systems. By providing a single “big pipe” with shared resources, cloud computing also eliminates the wastefulness of widely dispersed stand-alone server rooms. Cloud computing offers a new way to operationalize IT green, sustainable way. Shared infrastructure has been shown to reduce electricity and carbon emissions, with the unit economics of cloud computing further driving sustainability. Cloud computing also accelerates enterprise innovation, again by providing the ability to use shared infrastructure rather than trying to construct everything from scratch. This reduces time-to-value for enterprises developing their next-generation business models. Modern cloud computing solutions have enabled corporate entities to achieve unprecedented networked productivity, efficiency, and communication levels. However, despite their many benefits, cloud-based services incur substantial risks to the security and integrity of corporate data. There are significant cost savings in individual energy efficiency, the cost-sharing model of cloud computing can lead to more energy consumption. Another challenge stems from the fact that even though certain benefits are gained, there is also a need to invest significantly in cloud infrastructure. As a result, there is an overall net increase in carbon emissions. Submissions are welcome for articles that examine scientific advice from various academic perspectives, including science and technology studies. Insights from practitioners and case studies are also welcome.

List of topics:

Challenges of cloud computing for cooperate sustainability.
An initial approach for handling these challenges in implementing cloud computing employing a maturity model.
Study on the role of cloud computing for uniting sustainability.
Study on the provide information security and privacy in cloud computing.
Study on legal, ethical, social, and commercial challenges in cloud computing.
Cloud technologies to improve business sustainability in today’s digital era
A significant change in the data storage and management market using cloud computing.
Cloud computing for corporate sustainability reduces a company's IT hardware and infrastructure use.
Bosting business operations and efficiency, decreasing carbon emissions, energy consumption, and reducing environmental costs.
Study the modern business world for high interconnection and dependence on cloud computing.
Study on relations between cloud computing adoption to improve an organization's sustainability.
Identifying, analyzing, and discussing the elements of cloud computing with emphasis on corporate sustainability.