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 watcher
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-Watcher takes advantage of CEP and ML algorithms/metaheuristics to improve physical resources usage through better VM placement. Watcher can improve your cloud optimization by reducing energy footprint and increasing profits.
+OpenStack Watcher provides a flexible and scalable resource optimization service for multi-tenant OpenStack-based clouds.
+Watcher provides a complete optimization loop—including everything from a metrics receiver, complex event processor and profiler,
+optimization processor and an action plan applier. This provides a robust framework to realize a wide range of cloud optimization goals,
+including the reduction of data center operating costs, increased system performance via intelligent virtual machine migration, increased energy efficiency—and more!
 
 * Free software: Apache license
 * Wiki: http://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Watcher