Data Center Consolidation: A Step towards Infrastructure Clouds

  • Authors:
  • Markus Winter

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Technical and Business Information Systems, VLBA Lab, Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany 39016 and Hosting Infrastructure Management, SAP AG, St. Leon-Rot, Ge ...

  • Venue:
  • CloudCom '09 Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Cloud Computing
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

Application service providers face enormous challenges and rising costs in managing and operating a growing number of heterogeneous system and computing landscapes. Limitations of traditional computing environments force IT decision-makers to reorganize computing resources within the data center, as continuous growth leads to an inefficient utilization of the underlying hardware infrastructure. This paper discusses a way for infrastructure providers to improve data center operations based on the findings of a case study on resource utilization of very large business applications and presents an outlook beyond server consolidation endeavors, transforming corporate data centers into compute clouds.