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What is a Data Center?
Google Cloud Tech
2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Amow8BJm5Go
Books
Engineering and Management of Data Centers: An IT Service Management Approach
Jorge Marx Gómez, Manuel Mora, Mahesh S. Raisinghani, Wolfgang Nebel, Rory V. O'Connor
Springer, 10-Nov-2017 - Computers - 290 pages
This edited volume covers essential and recent development in the engineering and management of data centers. Data centers are complex systems requiring ongoing support, and their high value for keeping business continuity operations is crucial. The book presents core topics on the planning, design, implementation, operation and control, and sustainability of a data center from a didactical and practitioner viewpoint. Chapters include:
· Foundations of data centers: Key Concepts and Taxonomies
· ITSDM: A Methodology for IT Services Design
· Managing Risks on Data Centers through Dashboards
· Risk Analysis in Data Center Disaster Recovery Plans
· Best practices in Data Center Management Case: KIO Networks
· QoS in NaaS (Network as a Service) using Software Defined Networking
· Optimization of Data Center Fault-Tolerance Design
· Energetic Data Centre Design Considering Energy Efficiency Improvements During Operation
· Demand-side Flexibility and Supply-side Management: The Use Case of Data Centers and Energy Utilities
· DevOps: Foundations and its Utilization in Data Centers
· Sustainable and Resilient Network Infrastructure Design for Cloud Data Centres
· Application Software in Cloud-Ready Data Centers
This book bridges the gap between academia and the industry, offering essential reading for practitioners in data centers, researchers in the area, and faculty teaching related courses on data centers. The book can be used as a complementary text for traditional courses on Computer Networks, as well as innovative courses on IT Architecture, IT Service Management, IT Operations, and Data Centers.
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-65082-1
Books by Manuel Mora
https://www.wheelers.co.nz/browse/author/1095788-manuel-mora/
Open Access
International Journal of Information Technologies and Systems Approach (IJITSA)
Editor-in-Chief: Manuel Mora (Universidad Autónoma de Aguascalientes, Mexico)
https://www.igi-global.com/journal/international-journal-information-technologies-systems/1098
03-29-2023
Joan Tafoya, Director of Data Center Global Operations, Meta
To make a data center run efficiently and reliability takes the intentional orchestration of people, process, and technology. The technology is the hardware and software systems combination. It involves millions of servers distributed across the globe, instructed by the software to synchronize the work, resulting in a seemingly instantaneous experience to the user. The software developer needs to build code that supports the business value while ensuring that the full capabilities of the hardware are exploited. Is the full capability of the hardware exploited for value creation? An industrial engineer can evaluate periodically. It is the software engineering component of industrial engineering.
Technicians and infrastructure engineers in the data center need to attend to the many servers, ensuring that failed parts are replaced, hardware is configured to optimize for power and space, and facilities such as cooling, fiber, and power are always available. Finally, the flows of work, whether digital work or physical work need to continually be refined and adjusted to the changing user preferences and environmental considerations. The skills and expertise of industrial engineering is needed throughout the data center life cycle.
In: A New Flock: Industrial and Systems Engineering Fusion
TiffanySargent, 03-29-2023
7 Ways To Cut Data Center Costs: Gartner
IT managers who have to deal with increasing computing demand while also trying to cut costs would be wise to rationalize hardware costs and adopt server-based energy management.
6/12/2009
https://www.informationweek.com/software/7-ways-to-cut-data-center-costs-gartner/d/d-id/1080448
Overall Data Center Costs
James Hamilton, 2010 September
https://perspectives.mvdirona.com/2010/09/overall-data-center-costs/
5 Ways to Reduce Data Center Operations Costs
Anthony DeSpirito January 11, 2018
Right-size equipment
Re-assess your maintenance strategy
Keep staff happy, reduce turnover
Offer site-specific training
Manage what you have today – every day
https://blog.se.com/datacenter/2018/01/11/5-ways-reduce-data-center-operations-costs/
Data Centres typically generate a lot of heat - How to reduce energy waste?
As part of ‘Project Natick’, Microsoft has also acknowledged that data centres typically generate a lot of heat,
There are a few easy and relatively cheap steps you can make today to reduce energy waste within your data centre.
July 19, 2018
Data Center TCO (total cost of ownership)
How to plan a cost-effective Data Center transformation
Sify Technologies
https://www.sifytechnologies.com/blog/how-to-plan-a-cost-effective-data-center-transformation/
Electrical Engineering Books and Technical Guides
Data Center Guides (Design, Energy Efficiency and Testing)
https://electrical-engineering-portal.com/download-center/books-and-guides/data-center
Technologies, solutions, and processes are applied to optimally serve Intel’s business through the following metrics: best-in-class quality of service (QoS), lowest unit cost, and resource utilization efficiency.
Continual improvement is done in each of these three metrics. The potential for improvement is first defined as a “Model of Record” (MOR). This term represents a data center environment with an unconstrained budget ro buy the latest and greatest technology, develop new solutions, and update or develop new processes. In this MOR environment, the lowest unit cost, best QoS, and maximum utilization are calculated. The MOR improves every year, because technology and processes improve every year. (Industrial engineers to note especially. IEs have to learn about new technologies and developments in existing technologies on a continuous basis.)
But in reality, every IT shop has a limited budget. Within that limited budget only, investments in improvement are done. This real world environment is called the “Plan of Record” (POR). Year over year, the goal is to improve the POR at a faster rate of change than the MOR changes, so that actual results get closer to the MOR every year. Intel's seemingly simple MOR/POR data center transformation strategy has created unprecedented business value: a cost savings exceeding USD 2.8 billion (over 9 years) compared to public cloud infrastructure as a service (IaaS).
A primary area of focus in data center industrial engineering is to reduce the cost of data center facilities. This includes construction costs (measured in $/KW), electricity costs, water costs, and more. Several unique ways are used to reduce construction costs. The new data centers use recycled water instead of fresh water saving money as well as contributing environment conservation
About Shesha Krishnapura
Shesha Krishnapura is an Intel Fellow and chief technology officer in the Information Technology organization at Intel Corporation. He is responsible for advancing Intel data centers for energy and rack space efficiency, high-performance computing (HPC) for electronic design automation (EDA), and optimized platforms for enterprise computing.
https://itpeernetwork.intel.com/intels-data-center-strategy-leads-to-usd-2-8-billion-in-savings/
Electrical Engineering Books and Technical Guides
Data Center Guides (Design, Energy Efficiency and Testing)
https://electrical-engineering-portal.com/download-center/books-and-guides/data-center
Intel’s Data Center Industrial Engineering - USD 2.8 Billion in Savings - Productivity and Continuous Cost Reduction Strategy
Shesha Krishnapura | September 25, 2019Technologies, solutions, and processes are applied to optimally serve Intel’s business through the following metrics: best-in-class quality of service (QoS), lowest unit cost, and resource utilization efficiency.
Continual improvement is done in each of these three metrics. The potential for improvement is first defined as a “Model of Record” (MOR). This term represents a data center environment with an unconstrained budget ro buy the latest and greatest technology, develop new solutions, and update or develop new processes. In this MOR environment, the lowest unit cost, best QoS, and maximum utilization are calculated. The MOR improves every year, because technology and processes improve every year. (Industrial engineers to note especially. IEs have to learn about new technologies and developments in existing technologies on a continuous basis.)
But in reality, every IT shop has a limited budget. Within that limited budget only, investments in improvement are done. This real world environment is called the “Plan of Record” (POR). Year over year, the goal is to improve the POR at a faster rate of change than the MOR changes, so that actual results get closer to the MOR every year. Intel's seemingly simple MOR/POR data center transformation strategy has created unprecedented business value: a cost savings exceeding USD 2.8 billion (over 9 years) compared to public cloud infrastructure as a service (IaaS).
A primary area of focus in data center industrial engineering is to reduce the cost of data center facilities. This includes construction costs (measured in $/KW), electricity costs, water costs, and more. Several unique ways are used to reduce construction costs. The new data centers use recycled water instead of fresh water saving money as well as contributing environment conservation
About Shesha Krishnapura
Shesha Krishnapura is an Intel Fellow and chief technology officer in the Information Technology organization at Intel Corporation. He is responsible for advancing Intel data centers for energy and rack space efficiency, high-performance computing (HPC) for electronic design automation (EDA), and optimized platforms for enterprise computing.
https://itpeernetwork.intel.com/intels-data-center-strategy-leads-to-usd-2-8-billion-in-savings/
About Google Data Centers
Google owns and operates data centers all over the world, helping to keep the internet humming 24/7. Learn how our relentless focus on innovation has made our data centers some of the most high-performing, secure, reliable, and efficient data centers in the world.
See what's new and browse our innovations
https://www.google.com/about/datacenters/
Google: Our data centers use much less energy than the typical data center. How we do it?
Modern Data Center Design and Architecture
January 15, 2020
https://serverlift.com/blog/modern-data-center-design-and-architecture/
Data Center - Product Industrial Engineering
About the basic method: Product Industrial Engineering for Cost Reduction - L.D. Miles
DATA CENTER CONSTRUCTION AND VALUE ENGINEERING: Value Engineering Keeps Data Center Builds Moving Forward
By Abbot Moffat and Erik Weis | Monday, September 14, 2020
Value Engineering – How to optimise Data Centre design
By Alan O'Kelly 7th February 2017
Use Best Practices to Design Data Center Facilities
by MA Bell · 2005 ·
Industrial Engineering in Data Center Design - Facilities and Processes - Case Studies
Intel’s Data Center Industrial Engineering - USD 2.8 Billion in Savings - Productivity and Continuous Cost Reduction Strategy
Shesha Krishnapura | September 25, 2019Technologies, solutions, and processes are applied to optimally serve Intel’s business through the following metrics: best-in-class quality of service (QoS), lowest unit cost, and resource utilization efficiency.
Continual improvement is done in each of these three metrics. The potential for improvement is first defined as a “Model of Record” (MOR). This term represents a data center environment with an unconstrained budget ro buy the latest and greatest technology, develop new solutions, and update or develop new processes. In this MOR environment, the lowest unit cost, best QoS, and maximum utilization are calculated. The MOR improves every year, because technology and processes improve every year. (Industrial engineers to note especially. IEs have to learn about new technologies and developments in existing technologies on a continuous basis.)
But in reality, every IT shop has a limited budget. Within that limited budget only, investments in improvement are done. This real world environment is called the “Plan of Record” (POR). Year over year, the goal is to improve the POR at a faster rate of change than the MOR changes, so that actual results get closer to the MOR every year. Intel's seemingly simple MOR/POR data center transformation strategy has created unprecedented business value: a cost savings exceeding USD 2.8 billion (over 9 years) compared to public cloud infrastructure as a service (IaaS).
A primary area of focus in data center industrial engineering is to reduce the cost of data center facilities. This includes construction costs (measured in $/KW), electricity costs, water costs, and more. Several unique ways are used to reduce construction costs. The new data centers use recycled water instead of fresh water saving money as well as contributing environment conservation
About Shesha Krishnapura
Shesha Krishnapura is an Intel Fellow and chief technology officer in the Information Technology organization at Intel Corporation. He is responsible for advancing Intel data centers for energy and rack space efficiency, high-performance computing (HPC) for electronic design automation (EDA), and optimized platforms for enterprise computing.
https://itpeernetwork.intel.com/intels-data-center-strategy-leads-to-usd-2-8-billion-in-savings/
IE in IT Companies
Intel - Industrial Engineering Activities and Jobs.
Data Center Cost - Analysis and Reduction
How Much Does it Cost to Build a Data Center?
By Mary Zhang -November 5, 2023
https://dgtlinfra.com/how-much-does-it-cost-to-build-a-data-center/
Understanding Data Center Costs and How they Compare to the Cloud
Alon Berger
Product Marketing Manager, Intel Granulate
https://granulate.io/blog/understanding-data-center-costs-and-how-they-compare-to-the-cloud/
What Are the Best Data Center Cost Reduction Methods? - Ask The Engineer
Park Place Technologies
2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whZUAf7iZhU
Data Center Cost Reduction Methods – Ask the Engineer [VIDEO]
Ask the Engineer
Jack Kauter - Head shot
JACK KAUTER Published: May 23, 2023
https://www.parkplacetechnologies.com/blog/data-center-cost-reduction-methods/
Cost, AI, and staffing are biggest concerns for data centers
Aug 06, 2024
Data center operators are grappling with rising costs, the impact of AI on capacity requirements, and persistent staffing shortages, Uptime Institute reports.
Updated 8.8.2024, 23.7.2024, 29.3.2023, 22.4.2022, 24 May 2021
Pub 29 July 2020
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