- Change management (proactive risk management and assessment)
- Documentation (tracking, version control)
- Emergency preparedness and response (emergency drills, incident management)
- Energy management (need to improve performance)
- Environmental health and safety
- Financial management (faster procurement, less redundancy, accurate budget forecasts, communication with C-level management).
- Infrastructure management (IT staff and the facilities; monitoring network, cooling and space capacity)
- Maintenance management (enough spare parts stored locally)
- Performance management (monitored and rewarded, key performance indicators).
- Personnel management (roles, responsibilities)
- Quality management (standardization)
- Training
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Last week, Google hosted a conference “How Green is the Internet?” at Google’s campus in Mountain View, Calif.
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Wired published “8 Steps to Building a Modern Datacenter” highlighting features of modern data centers. Companies are trying to work hard with a consistent need for storage and computer resources. The Wired article focuses on the "what" and not the "how".
Be Modular
- There is a greater need for compatible frameworks and consoles across network, server and storage silos.
- Modular design is simple and flexible.
- Much smaller and compact single rack solutions.
- Incorporate fixed, vendor-defined ratios for computing resources and storage capacity.
- The IT hardware has also gotten much smaller while delivering the required computing power, over the last 2-3 years.
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“Major advances in our ability to capture, store, retrieve, and analyze data are changing the way people and companies make decisions,” says Kyle Weaver, portfolio manager of Fidelity Select IT Services.
Fidelity, Boston-based, a company that predominantly offers financial services, also provide modular data centers. Read Fidelity’s press release: Investing in the cloud and Big data—big opportunities?. The new data center business is called Centercore.
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Microsoft introduced Windows Azure introduces pay-by-the-minute feature” for virtual-server instances in its Windows Azure cloud. This is something that Google announced earlier.
Microsoft offers no minimum-use commitment. Google requires a minimum of 10 minutes. Developers also often do not need to spin up a VM for an entire hour.
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Study by Compass Datacenters of 150 U.S. companies with annual revenues of $250 million or more has identified factors shaping the data center strategies:
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IBM published an e-book Understanding Big Data: Analytics for Enterprise Class Hadoop and Streaming Data and here are some highlights:
- 90% of the data in the world today has been created in the last two years alone.
- 1 in 3 business leaders don’t trust the information they use to make decisions.
Every day:
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