The smart city concept represents a compelling platform for IT-enabled service innovation. It offers a view of the city where service providers use information technologies to engage with citizens to create more effective urban organizations and systems that can improve the quality of life. The emerging Internet of Things (IoT) model is foundational to the development of smart cities. Integrated cloud-oriented architecture of networks, software, sensors, human interfaces, and data analytics are essential for value creation. IoT smartconnected products and the services they provision will become essential for the future development of smart cities. This paper will explore the smart city concept and propose a strategy development model for the implementation of IoT systems in a smart city context.

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Power efficiency is a major concern in operating cloud data centers. It affects operational costs and return on investment, with a profound impact on the environment. Current data center operating environments, such as management consoles and cloud control software, tend to optimize for performance and service level agreements and ignore power implications when evaluating workload scheduling choices. We believe that power should be elevated to the firstorder consideration in data-center management and that operators should be provided with insights and controls necessary to achieve that purpose.In this paper we describe several foundational techniques for group-level power management that result in significant power savings in large data centers with run-time load allocation capability, such as clouds and virtualized data centers. We cover VM migration to save power, server pooling or platooning to balance power savings with startup times so as not to impair performance, and discuss power characteristics of servers that affect both the limits and the opportunities for power savings.

This paper discusses service-orientation concepts applied to infrastructure orchestration and management. It discusses the concept of serviceoriented infrastructure (SOI) and illustrates examples of end-to-end infrastructure services including services provisioned at the bare-metal hardware level. This paper demonstrates the potential to make platform as a service (PaaS) and its value to the IT infrastructure management.

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