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Simon Campbell-Whyte, DCA Executive Director reports from Paris on the ISO/IEC standards meeting
THE ISO/IEC INTERNATIONAL working group tasked to develop standards of KPI’s (Key Performance Indicators) for Resource Efficient Data Centres met in Paris for a 3 day working group session from 28-30th October. Kindly hosted by AFNOR, the world renowned and respected French organisation for standardisation, the meeting was attended by delegates from Germany, The Netherlands, USA, Japan, Canada, China, Korea, France and UK. The group is focussed on developing a suite of KPI’s to improve the resource efficiency performance of data centres.
The working committee has two sub-groups, one of which is working on developing KPI candidates for standardisation under a series termed ISO/IEC 30134, whilst a second is assessing how the KPI’s are reported and interpreted. Several KPI candidates are already under consideration, whilst Power Utilisation Effectiveness or PUE is already progressing through its first Committee Draft.
Major steps were made in dealing with all energy sources ultilised by data centres, the measurement methodologies and the reporting periods. The standardisation of PUE will provide much needed
clarification and removal of ambiguity in the reporting of PUE and is a vital step forward for the industry.
At the meeting Simon Campbell-Whyte announced the EU commission backed Pan European DCA (PEDCA) project designed to identify the training and research requirements and develop a “Joint Action Plan” for the industry. A call was made for the experts to provide their input and participate in the project. It is essential to gain knowledge of research that was already underway or planned and to help identify research needs. The group discussed the need for cohesion and the role PEDCA can play in this. Also at the
meeting, André Rouyer, Chair of CEN/CENELEC/ETSI Coordination Group on Green Data Centres, presented a brochure that shows the current depth, breadth and status of EU Data Centre Standards. This is a valuable document to highlight where any gaps or areas duplication exist. Once a release document is available this will be disseminated via the DCA.
Please don’t miss the chance to put forward your views in shaping the future of the data centre industry by completing the PEDCA industry survey at
www.pedca.eu
Making a beeline for Big Data: How to build a business case
INTERXION’S IAN MCVEY explores how certain strategy processes can enable a culture of innovation and ultimately enable organisations to build a business case for big data.
2013 WASUNOFFICIALLY dubbed the ‘Year of Big Data’ following revelations from a study by Gartner that showed that 42 per cent of firms have already invested in big data or will do so over the rest of the year. These were promising statistics that indicated a rapid move towards the use of analytics in business – or so you’d believe.
However, research results published by Interxion last month found that despite the hype, only one in four European organisations have actually built a business case for big data. The research also revealed that companies with an IT strategy aligned with the business plan are much more likely to have explored the possibilities of big data: more than nine in ten European organisations with an IT plan closely mapped to the business plan have already explored the possibilities of this phenomenon.
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However a third of respondents agreed that their department struggles to take a proactive and long-term strategic view, and as a result most European businesses are finding it difficult to build a business case for big data. So how can businesses ensure they’re fine-tuning their strategy processes to pave the way for real big data innovation?
Sharing insights across the business In today’s world, technology is often at the centre of business innovation and nowhere is this more the case than with big data. Yet
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