Data Center
Why cool is now 'hot' for IT planners:
Architecture solutions for your data center
Rising electricity prices are highlighting the power consumption of IT kit. With lifetime energy costs for some hardware approaching the purchase price, smart firms will favor cool-running models and cheaper locations.
Architecture solutions for your data center
Rising electricity prices are highlighting the power consumption of IT kit. With lifetime energy costs for some hardware approaching the purchase price, smart firms will favor cool-running models and cheaper locations.
By SPENCER DENYER, MELBOURNE UNIVERSITY
In August 2005, I joined the university to head up the Data Centers, Planning and IS Operations department with a focus and main charter on developing a long-term data center strategy.
The aim was to develop a strategic direction to bring the university’s data center environment into the 21st century. The objective was to consolidate existing data centers and computer rooms across campus into resilient and robust environments protecting the university’s key and core business systems.
In August 2005, I joined the university to head up the Data Centers, Planning and IS Operations department with a focus and main charter on developing a long-term data center strategy.
The aim was to develop a strategic direction to bring the university’s data center environment into the 21st century. The objective was to consolidate existing data centers and computer rooms across campus into resilient and robust environments protecting the university’s key and core business systems.
by Jason Blosil, IPSF Member, NetApp and David Dale, Chair of IPSF
Over the past 5 years, we have seen a huge growth in the use of Ethernet as a storage fabric. NFS deployment has expanded from its Unix file sharing and technical applications roots into large-scale enterprise applications environments, particularly those benefiting from a file system interface for application administration, and data protection offloading from the host environment. Common Internet File Systems (CIFS) and Server Message Block (SMB) deployments have expanded as windows file-sharing has become increasingly important in the typical distributed IT environment. And finally, iSCSI has seen broad adoption in SAN solutions supporting business applications – particularly in Windows, Linux and VMWare environments.
Over the past 5 years, we have seen a huge growth in the use of Ethernet as a storage fabric. NFS deployment has expanded from its Unix file sharing and technical applications roots into large-scale enterprise applications environments, particularly those benefiting from a file system interface for application administration, and data protection offloading from the host environment. Common Internet File Systems (CIFS) and Server Message Block (SMB) deployments have expanded as windows file-sharing has become increasingly important in the typical distributed IT environment. And finally, iSCSI has seen broad adoption in SAN solutions supporting business applications – particularly in Windows, Linux and VMWare environments.
With technology so pervasive, the world is getting smaller – and smarter – by the minute. Every day, the world is becoming more instrumented, interconnected and intelligent, creating new opportunities at both a societal and organizational level. By harnessing our increasingly digitized world, we can help solve intractable social problems, bring organizations closer to customers, and vastly shrink decision windows that help executives achieve competitive advantage.
How the data center double-bind changes everything
ANGUS JONES, PRODUCT MARKETING
MANAGER, HEWLETT PACKARD.
Call it the 'next-generation data center'. Call it the 'lights-out data center'. Whatever you call it, the data center has been under intense pressure to become both a model of thrift and an engine for business growth for years now. And for years, the response to these contradictory pressures has been piecemeal fi xes, many of which introduce their own issues.
ANGUS JONES, PRODUCT MARKETING
MANAGER, HEWLETT PACKARD.
Call it the 'next-generation data center'. Call it the 'lights-out data center'. Whatever you call it, the data center has been under intense pressure to become both a model of thrift and an engine for business growth for years now. And for years, the response to these contradictory pressures has been piecemeal fi xes, many of which introduce their own issues.
The Strategic Path talks with John Tuccillo, a director of The Green Grid, a global consortium dedicated to advancing energy efficiency in data centers and business computing ecosystems about the quest to improve overall data center energy efficiencies.
By Peter Johnson, National President,
Fire Protection Association, Australia
Fire within IT and communication networks poses risks that extend beyond data loss or business interruption, with major fires possessing a very real potential to cause complete business failure.
Fire Protection Association, Australia
Fire within IT and communication networks poses risks that extend beyond data loss or business interruption, with major fires possessing a very real potential to cause complete business failure.
Developments in Technology
By Barry Lee Oam, Honorary
Life Member, FPA Australia
Telecommunications installations are good examples of mission-critical facilities. And they have experienced some disastrous fires; prominent among them the 1975 fires in New York City and Asahikawa Toko, Japan; the much-discussed Hinsdale, Illinois, cable tray fire in 1988 which disrupted telephone services and the air traffic control towers at O'Hare International Airport, with service not restored to Chicago-area customers until a month after the fire; the 1993 telecommunications building fire in Jakarta, Indonesia, which cut off thousands of telephone lines in eastern Jakarta, including telephone and facsimile services to two local newspapers and a national news agency; and, of course, the 1994 Pacific Bell telephone exchange fire in Los Angeles, which interrupted 911 service in the city for 16 hours.
By Barry Lee Oam, Honorary
Life Member, FPA Australia
Telecommunications installations are good examples of mission-critical facilities. And they have experienced some disastrous fires; prominent among them the 1975 fires in New York City and Asahikawa Toko, Japan; the much-discussed Hinsdale, Illinois, cable tray fire in 1988 which disrupted telephone services and the air traffic control towers at O'Hare International Airport, with service not restored to Chicago-area customers until a month after the fire; the 1993 telecommunications building fire in Jakarta, Indonesia, which cut off thousands of telephone lines in eastern Jakarta, including telephone and facsimile services to two local newspapers and a national news agency; and, of course, the 1994 Pacific Bell telephone exchange fire in Los Angeles, which interrupted 911 service in the city for 16 hours.
As technology consolidation and virtualization demands 100% uptime, extra bandwidth and the high-density of 10GIG, we interviewed Dylan Morison, Cisco's regional head of data centers, to see how they are satisfying both the customer and technological demands of a modern data center.
Many organizations are running out of space in their data centers. Not only are data centers mission critical, but they are at or near capacity, and they run very hot and are getting hotter every day. Data center managers need to optimize their existing infrastructure in a way that will bring down costs, bring down space and cooling requirements and build an effective business case that will demonstrate a return on investment.
What is happening in the data center industry today and where to from here?
David Cowell, President of AFCOM Melbourne
As 2008 draws to a close, we data center professionals are looking towards 2009 and beyond with a sense of trepidation regarding our IT facilities. Our IT department customers are telling us that the power and floor-space requirements they will have of us will dramatically increase, possibly exponentially. The industry is talking about virtualization across network, storage and servers and a new term called cloud computing has emerged.
David Cowell, President of AFCOM Melbourne
As 2008 draws to a close, we data center professionals are looking towards 2009 and beyond with a sense of trepidation regarding our IT facilities. Our IT department customers are telling us that the power and floor-space requirements they will have of us will dramatically increase, possibly exponentially. The industry is talking about virtualization across network, storage and servers and a new term called cloud computing has emerged.
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