Energy Portfolio Optimization of Data Centers

Energy-Efficient Data Centers

Energy Aware Resource Management of Cloud Data Centers

Cloud Computing, the long-held dream of computing as a utility, has the potential to transform a large part of the IT industry, making software even more attractive as a service and shaping the way IT hardware is designed and purchased. Virtualization technology forms a key concept for new cloud computing architectures. The data centers are used to provide cloud services burdening a significant...

Overview of Portfolio Optimization Models

Finding the best way to optimize the portfolio after Markowitz's 1952 article has always been and will continue to be one of the concerns of activists in the investment management industry. Researchers have come up with different solutions to overcome this problem. The introduction of mathematical models and meta-heuristic models is one of the activities that has influenced portfolio optimizati...

Overview of Data Centers Energy Efficiency Evolution

Data centers are becoming one of the major consumers of energy in modern economies accounting for a measurable fraction of the total energy consumption. Furthermore, the energy consumption of data centers has a high growth rate with the energy consumption doubling about every six years. With large data centers consuming several MW of power or even 10’s of MW energy efficiency and energy consump...

Online Optimization in Internet Data Centers

Internet data centers (IDCs) perform multi-customer hosting on a virtual-ized collection of hardware resources. These systems give a new answer to website hosting by delegating all the worry of server management on the IDC provider side. These computing farms have to cope with important issues. Besides management and security considerations we find the important problem of resource allocations....