Who is the CIO of the Future?
The Strategic CIO
While most CIOs agree that their role will change in the next five years, less than a third see themselves as developers of business strategy or drivers of their companys competitive future today, according to a new study by Emerson Network Power. Nearly half characterize themselves as IT service providers and cost centers to the business leaders in their organization.
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Topics: Data Center, data center design, data center infrastructure management, PUE, Green Technology, cloud strategy, CIO
11 March 2013 by DatacenterDynamics FOCUS
The Green Grid has launched a new metric to help data center operators and organizations measure how electronic equipment is managed once it reaches end-of-current-use.
The Electronics Disposal Efficiency (EDE) metric is the first universal metric launched by The Green Grid to help end-users of information and communications technologies (ICT) measure their success in the responsible management of outdated equipment.
EDE is a simple metric that helps organizations calculate and measure their progress in improving equipment disposal processes over time, The Green Grid said.
Discarded Electronics and Electrical Equipment (EEE) entering the waste stream is known globally as e-waste or Waste Electronics and Electrical Equipment (WEEE). Examples of WEEE include computers, mobile devices, home entertainment products, toys, and even goods such as refrigerators and stoves.
The definition and monitoring of WEEE worldwide has evolved over the last decade, which has prompted The Green Grid to identify the need to combine the expertise of other organizations who define standards and requirements for e-waste management with its own members knowledge and understanding of the e-waste management challenges facing the ICT community.
The Green Grid said the result is the creation of a metric that quantifies how well a corporate consumer of ICT EEE responsibly manages e-waste.
The Green Grid isnt trying to redefine any domain-specific terminology in the WEEE arena, Kathrin Winkler, EMC representative and Board Member of The Green Grid, said.
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DVL Shines The Spotlight On Data Centers For Using Less Watts
Topics: Emerson Network Power, reduce cost, Data Center, Green IT, data center design, data center energy, data center infrastructure management, PUE, Containment, Green Technology, energy, Energy Star, cloud strategy
There's a maxim in the data center business that you can't manage what you can't measure, and eBay has come up with the mother of all measurement systems for calculating data center efficiency.
The online auction giant has devised a methodology that looks at the cost of its IT operations in dollars, kilowatt hours and carbon emissions, and ties those costs back to a single performance metric -- in eBay's case, the number of buy and sell transactions its customers make at eBay.com.
The result is a set of data that provides the equivalent of a "miles per gallon" metric for data centers, which organizations can use as a baseline to improve on over time, said Dean Nelson, head of eBay's Global Foundation Services, which manages its data centers worldwide.
"EBay is a single system, it's the sum of a million parts, and we needed a way to measure and convey the efficiency of this system," he said Tuesday at the Green Grid Forum, a data center efficiency conference in Santa Clara, California.
Topics: Emerson Network Power, data center infrastructure, Data Center, Green IT, data center design, data center energy, data center infrastructure management, PUE, Containment, Green Technology
Emerson Webcast: "Outside the Box"
Trends in Data Center Modularity
Wednesday, October 10, 2012 | 4 PM Eastern
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As demand for high-availability, rapid-deployment IT infrastructure continues to increase with the proliferation of on demand I T services and mission-critical applications, modular data center solutions have emerged as a favorable option for businesses that need to add data capacity and capability quickly offering users a turn-key solution that is not only portable but flexible and scalable.
Explore emerging market demands for modular data center solutions and how these approaches are being used to achieve cost effective just-in-time growth, serve as satellite data center extensions or become stand-alone solutions. Then see how modular approaches are being applied to power and cooling to extend the efficiencies a modular approach can offer.
Topics: data center infrastructure, Data Center, data center design, data center energy, private cloud, data center infrastructure management, PUE
Don Beaty has built some of the worlds most efficient data centers. Between 2004 and 2011, Beaty has been resonsible for crafting recommendations on data center cooling for the leading industry group for heating and cooling professionals. Those dual roles have provided Beaty with a unique vantage point on the evolution of new strategies to cool servers implementing cutting-edge techniques for the industrys leading innovator as his day job, while working to develop standards and recommendations that can work for a broad spectrum of data center operators.
Allowable vs. Recommended ASHRAE Guidelines - Design Your Data Center
The majority of data centers have multiple generations of technology, some type of spinning disc, some type of tape storage and maybe even some mainframe systems. These data centers can still be extremely energy efficient, but are not going to see the extremes of the ASHRAE design guidelines. They are the data centers that should probably stay with the ASHRAE recommended guidelines. Below is an example of the recommended versus allowable ASHRAE Guidelines. Please note that the recommended temperature guidelines didnt change in 2011, only the allowable.
Temperature
2004 20C to 25C - Recommended
2008 18C to 27C - Recommended
2011 5C to 40C - Allowable
Humidity
2004 40 to 55% - Recommended
2008 35 to 60% - Recommended
2011 20 to 80% - Recommended
One thing we are seeing more and more of today is confusion over what temperature and humidity parameters data centers should be designed for. Most of the discussion seems to assume that there is a monolithic block of data centers that can all be designed the same way. Nothing could be further from the truth.
Topics: Data Center, kW per rack, data center energy, PUE, electrical distribution, reduce downtime, data center outages, 7x24 exchange
