New World Data Center Environment: Facilities for High-Density Computing

New World Data Center EnvironmentFacilities for high-density computing Today's data centers are embarking down a path in However, the impact to other data center facility which "old world" business, technology, and facility operations and infrastructure systems can be metrics are being pushed aside in order to provide catastrophic if all the facility and technology unparalleled service delivery capabilities, processes, infrastructure elements are not considered and methodologies. The expectations derived from "holistically," which drives you to ask yourself the today's high-density technology deployments are question "Do I really want to do that?"driving service delivery models to extremes with very high service delivery capabilities adopted as baseline With today's high-density data center designs and requirements within today's stringent business models. deployments being completely based around business Part of the "revolution" that is driving today's data and technology metrics and models, the days of center modeling to unprecedented high performance designing data centers based on the facility alone and efficiency levels is the fact that computer are over. Those requirements are dictating leaner processing advances with regard to high-performance operational budgets that are, in turn, causing careful and smaller footprints have truly countered each consideration in the areas of hugely expensive data other. Processing performance has continued to grow center real estate. The trend has always been to exponentially, with size and footprint continuing operate within the company's technology and data to diminish to levels that are now causing huge center means, with the trend always being to reduce issues within the areas of facility environmental the number of data centers and overall raised floor infrastructures. Today's high-density deployments are space with strict cost containment controls in place. pushing the environmental envelope to astounding Today's high-density technology deployments allow levels so as to require engineers to perform baseline organizations to finally see the light so to speak with infrastructure calculations based on watts per rack/ regard to expensive raised floor deployments, but cabinet, rather than watts per square-foot as was are paying the price for not properly planning their previously the case. high-density deployments in the areas of power and cooling costs and/or catastrophic environmental Achieving today's high-density technology issues with the data center itself. deployments that involve packing large quantities of processing power into smaller white space Another key piece to today's data center puzzle areas requires deliberate and careful analysis, is the fact that virtualization and consolidation planning, design, and deployment methodologies technologies are enabling processing utilizations to in order to prevent environmental meltdowns that finally come up to full capabilities, which compounds can occur because of these high-density technology the power and cooling issues even further. Most deployments. Most data center operators are data center operators are taking advantage of struggling with exactly how to deal with today's deploying today's consolidation and virtualization high-density server technology systems, such as technologies at some level, but add the application 1U/2U rack-mount servers and blade server systems. virtualization factor into the overall environmental mix Since IT hardware manufacturers are moving and you have a real recipe for huge environmental towards the high-density blade server hardware nightmares within the data center if technology and technologies, practically everyone is struggling to facility infrastructures have not been planned as a figure out to fit these technologies into their data completely integrated and holistic solution. In order to centers and operations. To complicate this paradigm understand the overall impact of today's high-density further, application consolidation and virtualization technology deployments with respect specific to efforts are also driving processing utilization levels power and cooling dynamics further, a typical to unprecedented levels, which are simultaneously 42U rack configured with six (6) IBM blade server impacting MEP (Mechanical, Electrical, and Plumbing) chassis and fully populated with (14) servers for each architectures to astounding levels. The stru... [download for more]