A novel revenue optimization model to address the operation and maintenance cost of a data center

Journal of Cloud Computing

Advances, Systems and Applications

Table 4 Simulation output for DRS

Year	New server	Power and cooling	Elasticity (α)	Elasticity (β)	Max. revenue
1996	62	5	0.8000	0.1000	31.9014
1997	65	5	0.8000	0.1000	33.1305
1998	62	10	0.8000	0.1000	34.1911
1999	60	10	0.8000	0.1000	33.3059
2000	65	10	0.8000	0.1000	35.5084
2001	55	15	0.8000	0.1000	32.3519
2002	45	15	0.8000	0.1000	27.5536
2003	47	15	0.8000	0.1000	28.5291
2004	50	20	0.8000	0.1000	30.8517
2005	52	20	0.8000	0.1000	31.8351
2006	55	20	0.8000	0.1000	33.2961
2007	56	30	0.8000	0.1000	35.1773
2008	57	30	0.8000	0.1000	35.6789
2009	58	30	0.8000	0.1000	36.1788
2010	59	40	0.8000	0.1000	37.7474
2011	60	40	0.8000	0.1000	38.2584
2012	60	40	0.8000	0.1000	38.2584