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 …

Big data applications have become increasingly popular with the appearance of cloud
computing and green computing. Therefore, internet service providers (ISPs) need to build …

Cloud computing offers utility-oriented IT services to users worldwide. Based on a pay-as-
you-go model, it enables hosting of pervasive applications from consumer, scientific, and …

Rapid growth of the demand for computational power by scientific, business and web-
applications has led to the creation of large-scale data centers consuming enormous …

Traditionally, the development of computing systems has been focused on performance
improvements driven by the demand of applications from consumer, scientific, and business …

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 …

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

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

Internet hosting centers serve multiple service sites from a common hardware base. This
paper presents the design and implementation of an architecture for resource management …

Trends towards consolidation and higher-density computing configurations make the
problem of heat management one of the critical challenges in emerging data centers …