{"id":10420,"date":"2014-03-18T14:59:52","date_gmt":"2014-03-18T14:59:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudnewsdaily.com\/?p=14950"},"modified":"2014-03-18T14:59:52","modified_gmt":"2014-03-18T14:59:52","slug":"stanford-researchers-create-tool-to-triple-cloud-server-efficiency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/stanford-researchers-create-tool-to-triple-cloud-server-efficiency\/","title":{"rendered":"Stanford Researchers Create Tool to Triple Cloud Server Efficiency"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>Two Stanford engineers have created a cluster management tool that can triple server efficiency while delivering reliable service at all times, allowing data center operators to serve more customers for each dollar they invest.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13px;\">&#8220;This is a proof of concept for an approach that could change the way we manage server clusters,&#8221; said Jason Mars, a computer science professor at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Kushagra Vaid, general manager for cloud server engineering at Microsoft Corp., said that the largest data center operators have devised ways to manage their operations but that a great many smaller organizations haven&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you can double the amount of work you do with the same server footprint, it would give you the agility to grow your business fast,&#8221; said Vaid, who oversees a global operation with more than a million servers catering to more than a billion users.<\/p>\n<p>How Quasar works takes some explaining, but one key ingredient is a sophisticated algorithm that is modeled on the way companies such as Netflix and Amazon recommend movies, books and other products to their customers.\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: 13px;\">Instead of asking developers to estimate how much capacity they are likely to need, the Stanford system would start by asking what sort of performance their applications require.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Read much more detail <a href=\"http:\/\/news.stanford.edu\/news\/2014\/february\/server-cluster-management-022814.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/pixy.gif?x-id=0e4958a1-bd6f-4ab7-b13a-6cb54178c79f\" \/><\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/CloudNewsDaily\/~4\/fKo4YL_ANkw\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two Stanford engineers have created a cluster management tool that can triple server efficiency while delivering reliable service at all times, allowing data center operators to serve more customers for each dollar they invest. &ldquo;This is a proof of concept for an approach that could change the way we manage server clusters,&rdquo; said Jason Mars, [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1850,1851,73,1852,1853,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-capacity-management","category-kushagra-vaid","category-research","category-server-management","category-stanford-university","category-tools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}