Patrick J. Ogao

Work place: Faculty of Engineering Science and Technology, Technical University of Kenya, Kenya

E-mail: ogaopj@gmail.com

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Research Interests: Computer systems and computational processes, Computer Graphics and Visualization, Information Systems, Geographic Information System, Social Information Systems

Biography

Patrick J. Ogao is an Associate Professor of visualization and geoinformatics. He earned a PhD from Utrecht University, where he studied visual exploratory environments and techniques for knowledge discovery in large multi-dimensional, time-varying spatial data sets and an MSc from ITC, University of Twente, Enschede, in The Netherlands. He has had previous appointments in Computer Science Departments of University of Groningen, The Netherlands, Makerere University, Uganda, and Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology in Kenya. His research areas are in Information Systems and Information Visualization and consults regionally in Information Systems Development and geospatial sciences.

Author Articles
Autonomous Virtual Machine Sizing and Resource Usage Prediction for Efficient Resource Utilization in Multi-Tenant Public Cloud

By Derdus M. Kenga Vincent O. Omwenga Patrick J. Ogao

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijitcs.2019.05.02, Pub. Date: 8 May 2019

In recent years, the use of cloud computing has increased exponentially to satisfy computing needs in both big and small organizations. However, the high amounts of power consumed by cloud data centres have raised concern. A major cause of power wastage in cloud computing is inefficient utilization of computing resources. In Infrastructure as a Service, the inefficiency is caused when users request for more resources for virtual machines than is required. In this paper, we propose a technique for automatic virtual machine sizing and resource usage prediction using neural networks, for multi-tenant Infrastructure as a Service cloud service model. The proposed technique aims at reducing energy wastage in data centres by efficient resource utilization. An evaluation of our technique on CloudSim Plus cloud simulator and WEKA shows that effective VM sizing not only achieves energy savings but also reduces the cost of using cloud services from a customer perspective.

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