Incentivizing self-capping to increase cloud utilization
Mohammad Shahrad, Cristian Klein, Liang Zheng, Mung Chiang, Erik Elmroth, David Wentzlaff · 2017
Cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) providers continually seek higher resource utilization to better amortize capital costs. Higher utilization not only can enable higher profit for IaaS providers but also provides a mechanism to raise energy efficiency; therefore creating greener cloud services. Unfortunately, achieving high utilization is difficult mainly due to infrastructure providers needing to maintain spare capacity to service demand fluctuations.