High Scalability - High Scalability - It's a VM Wasteland - A Near Optimal Packing of VMs to Machines Reduces TCO by 22%

Thursday, March 7, 2013 at 9:31AM In Algorithm Design for Performance Aware VM Consolidation we learn some shocking facts (gambling in Casablanca?): Average server utilization in many data centers is low, estimated between 5% and 15%. This is wasteful because an idle server often consumes more than 50% of peak power.

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