Cost reduction for servicing a client through excess network performance

A virtual machine manager (VMM) to use excess network performance to reduce cost of servicing a client, the VMM comprising:

• a virtualized network connection configured to receive data to be processed from one or more virtual machines within a datacenter;
• a throttle module configured to:
• receive a total allowable delay information associated with processing the data based on a performance specification;
• and
• determine a delay budget based on assessing the data to be processed based on the total allowable delay information;
• and
• a data reduction module, implemented as a transportable infrastructure task at one of an edge layer and a local machine of a datacenter network, configured to:
• receive the data to be processed and the delay budget from the throttle module;
• and
• reduce an amount of the data to be processed while slowing the processing of the data within the delay budget by one or more of data deduplication and data compression.

A computer-readable storage medium having instructions stored thereon for using to use excess network performance to reduce cost of servicing a client, the instructions comprising:

• receiving a total allowable delay information associated with processing data at a datacenter based on a performance specification;
• determining a delay budget based on assessing the data to be processed based on the total allowable delay information;
• and
• performing a data reduction process on the data to be processed while slowing the processing of the data within the delay budget, wherein the data reduction process is a transportable infrastructure task at one of an edge layer and a local machine of a datacenter network comprising one or more of data deduplication and data compression.