Chapter 14

Cloud-based approach in data centers

Abstract

Data centers play an important role in modern information technology (IT) infrastructures. A data center is a home to the computational power, storage, and applications necessary to support an enterprise. Data centers process billions of Internet transactions every day. Nowadays, data centers are the beating hearts of the companies they serve. Large data centers with thousands of servers have been deployed by renowned information and communications technology organizations, like IBM, Microsoft, Amazon, Yahoo, eBay, and Google, to provide cloud computing services. The phenomenal increase in the size and number of data centers and the resultant increase in operational cost has stimulated research ...

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