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

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 …

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 …

Nowadays corporate data centers leverage virtualization technology to cut operational and
management costs. Virtualization allows splitting and assigning physical servers to virtual …

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 …

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

Nowadays, one of the most important goals of data center management is to maximize their
profit by minimizing power consumption and service-level agreement violations of hosted …

Data centers, as resource providers, are expected to deliver on performance guarantees
while optimizing resource utilization to reduce cost. Virtualization techniques provide 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 …

It is challenging to reduce resource over-provisioning for enterprise applications while
maintaining service level objectives (SLOs) due to their time-varying and stochastic …