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editor’s note
The Intelligent data centre In the past few years, the data centre has gone through a number of ‘iterations’ – most memorably, the Dynamic data centre and the Green data centre. Right now, we might be heading towards the Cloud data centre, but I’d like to suggest a possible alternative soubriquet: the Intelligent data centre.
Chatting to a diverse range of exhibitors at the recent Data Centre World event, I was struck by how, no matter what products and/or services they were displaying, nearly all of them were offering intelligence to the data centre operative – whether from a facilities or IT background.
Data centre monitoring is not a new discipline, but it seems that we are about to move from, if you like, phase one – just monitoring; to phase two and intelligent monitoring – so we can actually work out the data centre energy cost, say, of each database transaction. In other words, we’re moving from the general – “Did you know, Mr Data Centre Manager, that your facility consumes xxxx of power at a cost of xxxxxxxxxxxxxx to the business?” – which can often solicit the response: “And?”; to the specific, as outlined in the database example above, and, I suspect, much more likely to have all parties much more aware of data centre operating costs – “If I run that database query for you, it’ll cost you x”.
Achieving such a level of data centre operating granularity (any chance of DCOG taking its place alongside DCIM?!!) is eminently achievable. Data centre managers just need to be aware that, in an ideal world, the monitoring function will be implemented as the data centre is built (so all the hardware will be equipped with the necessary sensors, the lighting, for example, will be leading edge intelligent etc.). Okay, so most data centre managers already have a ‘chaotic’, live environment, but that’s still no excuse not to ensure that intelligence is brought into the data centre. Short term pain, for massive, long term gain.
Phil Alsop Editor
contents
What’s Hot 04 World news 08 Data Centre Alliance update 14 The Analyst 16 Outsourcing, Hosting & Co-location 2012 16 Managed Services Convention 17 Datacentre Transformation Conference 18 Green skills for the green economy
Facilities 36 Mission critical power protection 42 As green as the valleys of Wales
ICT 26 Making the network cost-efficient 28 Managing migrations and consolidations 38 The changing world of the network 40 The changing role of the CIO
Cloud 22 Cloud Services for global businesses 30 Fashionable Infrastructure-as-a-service 32 Recovery-as-a-service and the Cloud 44 A question of perspectives
In the Spotlight 46 Adam Winkelmann, Emulex
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