Automating Datacenter Operations Using Machine Learning

Cloud computing is a broad term that covers everything from Google* applications to rack-based servers. In the enterprise space, it is driving improved data center efficiency, the result of sharing resources, like computing, networking and storage. At the heart of this approach is infrastructure convergence, which enables IT to more rapidly reallocate equipment to meet fluctuating and unpredict...

Organizations opt to reduce costs by contracting their day-to-day computing needs to service providers who offer large-scale data centers and cloud computing services. Like other computing commodities, data centers provide paid services that require careful pricing. Using a Stackelberg game formulation, we present a demand-based pricing model for maximizing revenue of data center providers that...

To be able to satisfy the customized requirements for monitoring equipments and personalized monitoring interfaces, datacenter computer room monitoring system systematically provides a mass customization mechanism to give a quick response while reducing the manufacturing cost and meeting the users’ needs. For this reason, we combine the theory of mass customization with the customization method...

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Only little is publicly known about traffic in noneducational data centers. Recent studies made some knowledge available, which gives us the opportunity to create more realistic traffic models for data center research. We used this knowledge to create the first publicly available traffic generator that produces realistic traffic between hosts in data centers of arbitrary size. We characterize t...

In this paper, we present a measurement based characterization of the Ultra Wideband (UWB) channel in a data center environment. We find that although a modified Saleh-Valenzuela model characterizes the UWB channel, some of the model parameters such as delay spread and log normal shadowing are unique to the data center environment.

The approach of Business Intelligence (BI) as a support function for management decisions is established in practice and theory. BI can not just be considered as a simple sequence of isolated single projects. Its coordination requires permanent efforts to keep the BI function and the business organization in alignment. In the context of the present empirical study, BI organizations have been an...