Data centers in public, private, and hybrid cloud settings make it possible to provision virtual
machines (VMs) with unprecedented flexibility. However, purchasing, operating, and …

Cloud computing is the most prominent computing paradigm in the present era of
information technology. However, data centers needed for hosting cloud services demand …

To improve resource utilization and energy efficiency, cloud data centers use virtual
machine (VM) consolidation to consolidate VMs to fewer physical machines (PMs) through …

At the virtualized data centers, services are presented by active virtual machines (VMs) in
physical machines (PMs). The manner in which VMs are mapped to PMs affects the …

In a data center, virtual machine consolidation has been proposed to improve the resource
utilization and energy efficiency. An effective and efficient virtual machine consolidation …

The energy efficiency of cloud computing has recently attracted a great deal of attention. As
a result of raised expectations, cloud providers such as Amazon and Microsoft have started …

Abstract Efficient Virtual Machines (VMs) consolidation, as one of the primary methods for
balancing between guaranteeing Quality of Service (QoS) and saving energy, is critical for …

Finding the best way to map virtual machines (VMs) to physical machines (PMs) in a cloud
data center is an important optimization problem, with significant impact on costs …

Abstract In Cloud Computing (CC), the cost for computation and energy is less by current
cloud data centers because it exploits virtualization for an effective resource management …

This article presents a virtual machine placement technique aimed at minimizing power
usage in heterogeneous cloud data centers. In this study, an innovative model for …