Profit-Aware Server Allocation for Green Internet Services

In recent years large investments have been made to build data centers, or server farms, purpose-built facilities providing storage and computing services within and across organizational boundaries. A typical server farm may contain thousands of servers, which require large amounts of power to operate and to keep cool, not to mention the hidden costs associated […]

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Maximizing Cloud Providers Revenues via Energy Aware Allocation Policies

Cloud providers, like Amazon, offer their data centers’ computational and storage capacities for lease to paying customers. High electricity consumption, associated with running a data center, not only reflects on its carbon footprint, but also increases the costs of running the data center itself. In “Maximizing Cloud Providers Revenues via Energy Aware Allocation Policies” we address […]

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