—Server virtualization opens up a range of new possibilities for autonomic datacenter management, through the availability of new automation mechanisms that can be exploited to c...
Malgorzata Steinder, Ian Whalley, David Carrera, I...
In cluster-based storage systems, the metadata server cluster must be able to adaptively distribute responsibility for metadata to maintain high system performance and long-term l...
In this paper we address the problem of managing heterogeneous workloads in a virtualized data center. We consider two different workloads: transactional applications and long-ru...
David Carrera, Malgorzata Steinder, Ian Whalley, J...
In this paper we introduce a new approach to the consolidation strategy of a data center that allows an important reduction in the amount of active nodes required to process a het...
Jordi Torres, David Carrera, Kevin Hogan, Ricard G...
It has recently become clear that power management is of critical importance in modern enterprise computing environments. The traditional drive for higher performance has influenc...