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DCA Review Introduction
by Simon Campbell-Whyte DCA Executive Director
DCA REVIEW Resilience & Operational Best Practice
Pan European DCA Project News (PEDCA)
By Steve Hone, DCA Operations Director.
PEDCA held its Project Coordination Committee meeting at Goethe University of Frankfurt over January 14th and 15th the evening of the 14th provided an opportunity for networking with some Frankfurt’s data centre community organised by the University.
AS WE LOOK FORWARD to the third year of the Data Centre Alliance’s existence we can draw breath on a busy 2013 for DCA members - starting with negotiations in Brussels for Project PEDCA, followed by frantic co- ordination of the grant agreement and project launch, meeting with ministers in Parliament, the New Statesman parts 1 and 2, the DCA “bootcamp” training and the launch of the DCA data centre Certifications scheme. On top of that, the DCA has been ever present at most industry conferences in Leeds, Frankfurt, Dublin, London and Amsterdam. So we begin 2014 optimistically with more members and an even greater work programme for the data centre industry.
This month Professor Ian Bitterlin of Emerson raises the issue of the link between energy efficiency and service availability, one area the industry and its stakeholders need to deal with better, the DCA Certifications aims to highlight where and how this balance has been struck, but as Ian shows you can’t always have it all without some compromises. As growth in economies seems to be restarting and confidence picks up, Louise Barth of Altus Edwin Hill, sheds some light on how to ensure data centre investors can ensure they gain all the tax benefits they are entitled to – of course it’s made never as easy as it should be, but I know from talking to Louise that many simply miss out because of either the perceived complexity or though simply not knowing.
Last but not least this month, Roger Keenan of City Lifeline reflects on the dangers of striving blindly to be masters of our technology, does not always guarantee success.
Project PEDCA is now moving towards the end of the initial phase and the initial analysis promises to make interesting reading. After the initial scoping work in September, researchers have begun working on researching existing data centre training and research provision, skills and the technology road map.
at University of East London last August, two further similar activities will be held at TU Delft and Goethe University of Frankfurt (right) the aim is to formulate a sustainable model that can be widely deployed to meet the industry’s needs involving universities, employers, training specialists and local authorities.
PEDCA is an EU commission funded foundation project for the Data Centre industry and we are calling on all industry stakeholders who would like to find out more about PEDCA. Please visit:
www.pedca.eu
In addition, this also includes looking at the various industry influences and putting it all into a regional context. The task in hand now includes bringing all the various tasks together to identify the “requirements” for the “Joint Action Plan” work to begin.
The project will also start to pilot the various ideas for further development in the field. For example, after the DCA “Boot Camp” held
DCA Committee news
THE DCA’s Energy Efficiency and Sustainability Steering Group is where members can find out about European and International standards developments and initiatives, much is happening in this areas and I would urge all members to join the group to remain informed and better still help with commenting and development.
Other committees are gearing up for activities during 2014 including Building Information Modelling, Security and Access Control, Anti- Contamination, Relocations and Migrations and DCA Certifications – any members who which to join a group simply log in at
www.data-central.org
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