Dynamic Management Techniques for Increasing Energy Efficiency within a Data Center

In ours days data centers provide the global community an indispensable service: nearly unlimited access to almost any kind of information we can imagine by supporting most Internet services such as: Web hosting and E-commerce services. Because of their capacity and their work, data centers have various impacts on the environment, but those related with the electricity use are by far the most important. In this paper, we present several power and energy management techniques for data centers and we will focus our attention on techniques that are explicitly tailored to servers and their workloads.Comment: 5 pages, 3 figure