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

Cloud computing is today's most emphasized Information and Communications Technology
(ICT) paradigm that is directly or indirectly used by almost every online user. However, such …

Power efficiency is one of the main issues that will drive the design of data centers,
especially of those devoted to provide Cloud computing services. In virtualized data centers …

Data centres are powerful ICT facilities which constantly evolve in size, complexity, and
power consumption. At the same time users' and operators' requirements become more and …

Multi-/many-core systems are envisioned to satisfy the ever-increasing performance
requirements of complex applications in various domains such as embedded and high …

The success of Cloud computing, where computing power is treated as a utility, has resulted
in the creation of many large data centers that are very expensive to build and operate. In …

This overview gravitates on research achievements that have recently emerged from the
confluence between Big Data technologies and bio-inspired computation. A manifold of …

The concept of virtualization forms the heart of systems like the Cloud and Grid. Efficiency of
systems that employ virtualization greatly depends on the efficiency of the technique used to …

Cloud computing has seen rapid growth in the last decade, as a result of this there is an
increasing concern about the energy requirement of cloud data centres. One approach to …

Geographically distributed data centers (DCs) offer promising business opportunities to both
big companies that own several sites and multi-owner inter-cloud infrastructures. In these …