Data centers are critical, energy-hungry infrastructures that run large-scale Internet-based
services. Energy consumption models are pivotal in designing and optimizing energy …

Resource management in a cloud environment is a hard problem, due to: the scale of
modern data centers; the heterogeneity of resource types and their interdependencies; the …

As computation continues to move into the cloud, the computing platform of interest no
longer resembles a pizza box or a refrigerator, but a warehouse full of computers. These …

Cloud computing data centers are becoming increasingly popular for the provisioning of
computing resources. The cost and operating expenses of data centers have skyrocketed …

Power consumption imposes a significant cost for data centers implementing cloud services,
yet much of that power is used to maintain excess service capacity during periods of low …

Workload placement on servers has been traditionally driven by mainly performance
objectives. In this work, we investigate the design, implementation, and evaluation of a …

Server consolidation using virtualization technology has become increasingly important for
improving data center efficiency. It enables one physical server to host multiple independent …

Energy consumption in hosting Internet services is becoming a pressing issue as these
services scale up. Dynamic server provisioning techniques are effective in turning off …

Power delivery, electricity consumption, and heat management are becoming key
challenges in data center environments. Several past solutions have individually evaluated …

Energy expenditure has become a significant fraction of data center operating costs.
Recently," geographical load balancing" has been suggested to reduce energy cost by …