Power and redundancy management policies are applied individually to the tiers of redundant servers of an application service such that power is reduced while maintaining a high level of system availability. Servers which are determined to be relatively inactive are moved to a free pool. Certain servers...http://www.google.de/patents/US20040107273?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US20040107273 - Automated power control policies based on application-specific redundancy characteristics