CORR
2011
Springer
13 years 2 months ago
2011
Springer
Since the electricity bill of a data center constitutes a significant portion of its overall operational costs, reducing this has become important. We investigate cost reduction o...
GCC
2009
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
2009
Springer
Emerging Cloud computing infrastructures provide computing resources on demand based on postpaid principles. For example, the RESERVOIR project develops an infrastructure capable o...
OTM
2010
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
2010
Springer
The current trend of increasingly larger Web-based applications makes scalability the key challenge when developing, deploying, and maintaining data centers. At the same time, the ...
GLOBECOM
2010
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
2010
IEEE
Cloud computing data centers are becoming increasingly popular for the provisioning of computing resources. The cost and operating expenses of data centers have skyrocketed with th...
NETWORK
2008
13 years 11 months ago
2008
In this paper, we explore services and capabilities that can be enabled by the localization of various "assets" in a data center or IT environment. We also describe the u...
CORR
2010
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
2010
Springer
Cloud computing represents a shift away from computing as a product that is purchased, to computing as a service that is delivered to consumers over the internet from large-scale ...
SIGCOMM
2010
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
2010
ACM
Building distributed applications for data centers is hard. CamCube explores whether replacing the traditional switchbased network with a directly connected topology makes it easi...
CONEXT
2009
ACM
14 years 2 days ago
2009
ACM
Motivated by increased concern over energy consumption in modern data centers, we propose a new, distributed computing platform called Nano Data Centers (NaDa). NaDa uses ISP-cont...
CIDR
2009
14 years 2 days ago
2009
Energy costs are quickly rising in large-scale data centers and are soon projected to overtake the cost of hardware. As a result, data center operators have recently started turni...
CCGRID
2010
IEEE
14 years 2 days ago
2010
IEEE
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 amounts of el...