787|Int. J. of Multidisciplinary and Current research, Vol.3 (July/Aug 2015) International Journal of Multidisciplinary and Current Research Research Article ISSN: 2321-3124 Available at: http://ijmcr.com Green Computing Beyond the traditional ways Mohammed Anwar Mohammed † , Danial Abdulkareem Muhammed ‡ and Jaza Mahmood Abdullah ϯ University of Sulaimani / †,‡ School of Science - Department of Computer science / ϯ College of commerce - Department of statistic and computer, Iraq Accepted 12 Aug 2015, Available online 15 Aug 2015, Vol.3 (July/Aug 2015 issue) Abstract Over the past years, green computing has become a concerning Issues for government, commercial organizations and even individuals in society. In this paper, firstly the green computing will be defined and discussed briefly, secondly the impact of it is effects on the environment and consumable resources will be explained through statistical info-graphic collected around the global. Finally, the road map strategies will be drawn beyond the traditional techniques, in order to take actions against IT negative environmental and financial influences. Keywords: Green Computing, Green IT, Datacenter, eco-friendly, green cloud, sustainability, power management. 1. Introduction In terms of rising awareness about computing environmental impact, green computing is gaining significant importance. With increasing global warming, energy consumption and e-waste, the idea of green computing is broadly taken into remarkable consideration by both the government and businesses as their contribution in moral practices for sustainable improvement. Green computing or green IT concept has been used since 1992 with the commencement of the Energy Star program, this provided a voluntary label awarded to computing products which offered maximum efficiency while consuming minimum energy. The rating was awarded to refrigerators, television, monitors, air conditioners, and other household devises. Soon after that, the Green computing term where used to cover the computer related products such as, USBs, printers, monitors, communication systems, servers and network systems [1] [2]. Today, this term is broadly use with every aspect of energy consuming actives, the reason for that is explained below. 2. Green Computing key points a. Sustainability of Environment – this make sure of productivity and diversity of biological system through minimizing the undesirable production process effects, starting with product design then green manufacturing and ending with safe disposal. Moreover, it is not just take care of environment, it also ensure the social and economic sustainability as shown in figure 1 [4]. b. Utilizing the resources - green computing is instigate the designers in order to utilize the recourses in an environmental friendly ways, for instances, datacenters, computer, smart phones, light, heat, electrical powers etc. c. Reducing Cost– there is a significant saving in the product costs by utilizing resources efficiently through green computing. d. Better Corporate and Social Image – Green computing is provide a grate help for the businesses to improve their corporate reputation by meeting regulatory requirements and compliance. It also offers a better way for meeting customers and employees sustainability demands [3]. Figure 1 Confluence of three constituent parts [4] 3. Power usage effectiveness (PUE) Ii is one of the most common metric used when talking about green computing, is a measure of how much energy is used by the a datacenter and how