Tencent Cloud Developer
Tencent Cloud Developer
Feb 7, 2017 · Cloud Computing

Six Methods for Capacity Management in Cloud Computing

Tencent’s social network division, overseeing nearly 100,000 Linux servers that power billions of daily QQ interactions, curbs rising hardware expenses by applying six capacity‑management strategies—performance balancing, memory‑density assessment, feature‑driven scaling, virtualization‑based fragmentation reduction, bottleneck‑oriented capacity planning, and selective hardware upgrades such as larger disks or GPUs—to boost utilization and lower operational costs.

Infrastructure Optimizationcapacity managementcost optimization
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Six Methods for Capacity Management in Cloud Computing
Efficient Ops
Efficient Ops
Oct 8, 2016 · Operations

How to Boost Server Resource Utilization: Strategies, Trade‑offs, and Metrics

This article explains why servers often run far below their theoretical capacity, defines the concept of highest usable resource utilization, and offers practical and advanced techniques—such as multithreading, workload consolidation, resource layering, and overselling—to improve utilization while weighing performance, cost, and reliability impacts.

Performance optimizationoperationsredundancy
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How to Boost Server Resource Utilization: Strategies, Trade‑offs, and Metrics