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The widespread use of Web services from the last years has been increasing the energy consumed by datacenters. This is both an economical and environmental concern, and has motivated research on techniques to make server clusters more energy-efficient. This work presents simple and scalable policies to manage servers, while attending the soft real-time characteristics of the applications. The proposed...