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accurately and dynamically identify which physical servers are overutilized, and which
are underutilized from the enterprise perspective. For the most part hardware
is often ordered and deployed on the too-much-is-better-than-not-enough-resources
philosophy, meaning that many data centers are left running large quantities of servers
that are hugely underutilized. Although somewhat unavoidable with conventional server
technology, this situation unfortunately results in large-scale wastage of power, cooling,
and space. In fact many servers may often be running at extremely lo
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