The role of workload prediction in reducing datacentre energy costs

<div><b>[Para. 1 of Summary]</b><br></div><div><br></div>It’s not a stretch to say information technology services have become near-essential in North America today. On average we now connect to more than 22 applications daily and generate two GB of data while we’re at it, says Salam Ismaeel, a PhD candidate at Ryerson in the Department of Computer Science. “More than 77 percent of today’s businesses,” he adds, “rely on the Internet and data center resources.”