This document discusses resource management in cloud computing and strategies for improving energy efficiency. It describes different resource types, including physical and logical resources. It then discusses how resource management controls access to cloud capabilities. The document outlines how data center power consumption is growing rapidly and motivating the need for green computing approaches. These include power-aware and thermal-aware scheduling of virtual machines, optimized data center design, and minimizing the size of virtual machine images to reduce energy usage. The overall summary advocates an integrated green cloud framework combining various efficiency techniques.
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