There is growing incentive to reduce the power consumed by large-scale data centers that
host online services such as banking, retail commerce, and gaming. Virtualization is a …

Power consumption and cooling overheads are becoming increasingly significant for large
scale machines, affecting overall costs and the ability to extend resource capacities and …

We investigate optimal resource allocation and power management in virtualized data
centers with time-varying workloads and heterogeneous applications. Prior work in this area …

Both power and performance are important concerns for enterprise data centers. While
various management strategies have been developed to effectively reduce server power …

Cloud computing allows business customers to scale up and down their resource usage
based on needs. Many of the touted gains in the cloud model come from resource …

Resource allocation strategies in virtualized data centers have received considerable
attention recently as they can have substantial impact on the energy efficiency of a data …

Today's data centers face two critical challenges. First, various customers need to be
assured by meeting their required service-level agreements such as response time and …

Worldwide interest in the delivery of computing and storage capacity as a service continues
to grow at a rapid pace. The complexities of such cloud computing centers require advanced …

Data centers contain IT, power and cooling infrastructures, each of which is typically
managed independently. In this paper, we propose a holistic approach that couples the …

The reduction of energy consumption in large-scale datacenters is being accomplished
through an extensive use of virtualization, which enables the consolidation of multiple …