The energy consumption of data centers accounts for approximately 1% of that of the world,
the average power usage effectiveness is in the range of 1.4–1.6, and the associated carbon …

Nowadays, many organizations and individual users are employing cloud services
extensively due to their efficiency, reliability and low cost. A key aspect for cloud data centers …

Efficient VM management is very crucial for energy saving, increasing profit, and preventing
SLA violations. VM placement schemes can be classified into reactive and …

Cloud computing is being rapidly adopted for managing IT services as a notable solution
due to diverse beneficiaries such as automatically optimized resource management as well …

Cloud computing introduced a new paradigm in IT industry by providing on‐demand, elastic,
ubiquitous computing resources for users. In a virtualized cloud data center, there are a …

Data centers are the backbone of a growing number of activities in modern economies.
However, the large increase of digital content, big data, e-commerce, and Internet traffic is …

In a cloud environment, the indemnity of service level agreement (SLA) violations has an
adverse effect on the service provider. It leads to the penalty fee, credit amount, license …

To achieve energy efficiency in data centers, dynamic virtual machine (VM) consolidation as
a key technique has become increasingly important nowadays due to the significant …

Task scheduling and resource management are critical for improving system performance
and enhancing consumer satisfaction in distributed computing environments. The dynamic …

Dynamic consolidation of virtual machines (VMs) is an effective way to improve resource
utilization and power efficiency in cloud computing. For example, determining when it is best …