Cloud3DView: An Interactive Tool for Cloud Data Center Operations

The emergence of cloud computing has promoted growing demand and rapid deployment of data centers. However, data center operations require a set of sophisticated skill-s (e.g., command-line-interface), resulting in a high opera-tional cost. In this demo, to reduce the data center opera-tional cost, we design and build a novel cloud data center management system, based on the concept of 3D gamifica-tion. In particular, we apply data visualization techniques to overlay operational status upon a data center 3D model, allowing the operators to monitor the real-time situation and control the data center from a friendly user interface. This demo highlights: (1)a data center 3D view from a First Per-son Shooter (FPS) camera, (2)a run-time presentation of vi-sualized infrastructures information. Moreover, to improve the user experience, we employ cutting-edge HCI technolo-gies from multi-touch, for remote access to Cloud3DView