The growing global demand for services offered by data centers (DCs) has increased their
total power consumption and carbon emissions. Recent figures revealed that DCs account …

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

As computing infrastructure expands, resource management in a large, heterogeneous, and
distributed environment becomes a challenging task. In a cloud environment, with …

The increase in energy consumption is the most critical problem worldwide. The growth and
development of complex data-intensive applications have promulgated the creation of huge …

Energy efficiency has grown into a latest exploration area of virtualized cloud computing
paradigm. The increase in the number and the size of the cloud data centers has …

Cloud resource provisioning is a challenging job that may be compromised due to
unavailability of the expected resources. Quality of Service (QoS) requirements of workloads …

One of the primary functions of a cloud service provider is to allocate cloud resources to
users upon request. Requests arrive in real-time and resource placement decisions must be …

Effective management of ICT (information and communications technology) and cooling is
critical in modern data centres for high energy efficiency. This survey paper gives an …

Due to the growth of the internet and internet-based software applications, cloud data center
demand has increased. Cloud data centers have thousands of servers that are 24× 7 …

Cloud computing has become an essential part of the global digital economy due to its
extensibility, flexibility and reduced costs of operations. Nowadays, data centers (DCs) …