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Data Center Total Cost of Ownership
Chris Crosby, Digital Realty Trust’s Senior Vice President of Corporate Development, helps with understanding the total cost of ownership calculation associated with any major data canter purchase.
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Myth-of-the-Month: PUE, Part 2
Measuring the energy efficiency of your data center is an essential operational requirement. PUE has become the industry’s de facto standard but is surrounded by a measure of uncertainty and misinformation. In the first of a three part series, Michael Manos, Digital Realty Trust’s Senior Vice President of Technical Services, will discuss the myths associated with PUE.
Myth-of-the-Month: PUE, Part 1
Measuring the energy efficiency of your data center is an essential operational requirement. PUE has become the industry’s de facto standard but is surrounded by a measure of uncertainty and misinformation. In the first of a three part series, Michael Manos, Digital Realty Trust’s Senior Vice President of Technical Services, will discuss the myths associated with PUE.
Data Centre TCO – Custom vs. Turn-Key
A complete Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) analysis for any data centre build is imperative, particularly when considering a Turn-Key versus Build-to-Suit or “Do-It-Yourself” (DIY) option. Calculating the TCO is a difficult task considering the number of components that go into any data centre build, understanding your internal cost metrics and how financial decisions are made within your executive team, and long depreciation cycles, among others.
So in this recording of Jim Smith, CTO for Digital Realty Trust presenting at the Gartner Datacentre Summit 2009 in London, we highlight the list of items to include in your TCO analysis of in sourcing versus outsourcing your next data centre build.
The Applications Driven Data Center
Normally developing anything to meet a “worst case scenario” makes perfect sense. With data centers this may not always be the case. In this video Michael Manos, Digital Realty Trust’s Senior Vice President of Technical Services, discusses why you may not always want to design to your most restrictive scenario.
Vote for Digital Realty Trust: BREEAM
This is the video submission for Information-age video awards in the Data Centre category. Jim Smith, CTO, discusses how Digital Realty Trust led the way in developing BREEAM Data Centre standard.
One of the greatest environmental impacts of a data centre is the building itself, especially if it is scratch built to purpose.
Digital Realty Trust has helped to develop the British Research Establishment Environmental Assessment Method (BREEAM) for data centres. Similar standards exist for schools, residences and even prisons, but this is the first such certification for buildings.
The BREEAM standard can now be applied to any new data centre being built to ensure the full environment impact of the building is taken into account.
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Vote for Digital Realty Trust: PUE
This is the video submission for Information-age video awards in the Green-IT category. Jim Smith, CTO, discusses the Digital Realty Trust developments in delivering real-time PUE metrics to its customers.
Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) is one of the most widely adopted metrics for measuring a data centre’s performance. Digital Realty Trust now uses the metric to not only benchmark the performance of its data centre designs, but builds it right into the data centre so customers can react and improve performance during the life of the facility. By measuring the facility’s total power usage every 15 minutes, Digital Realty Trusts data centres now allow real-time monitoring of energy efficiency.
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Myth-of-the-Month: Data Center Tiers
Very often what was once a good idea lives on after its usefulness has passed. In some instances the Tier system that defined the data center industry for years fits this description. In this video Digital Realty Trust Senior Vice President of Technical Services, Michael Manos, discusses the how the Tier system should be viewed within your data center planning.