Join Me August 16 in a Webinar about Data and DCIM | Tek-Tips ...

Come and join me August 16 for a panel discussion of ?Do More Data Make DCIM More Effective in Designing and Managing Data Centers??

Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) has been given a lot of attention in the past few years. I think we are moving from ?What is DCIM?? to ?How do we deploy it?? DCIM provides a lot of different functions, covering a wide range of areas in designing and operating data centers. There is no agreement on terminology or standards yet, but the functions may include inventory, change control, capacity management, simulation, and monitoring/reporting. And maybe more.

Let me take a different view here. Yes, functions are important, but functions require data available from a data center. In general, DCIM collects data associated with the infrastructure, i.e., power consumption, temperature, pressure, humidity, fan speed, and other data. What?s missing is logical and virtual data. Although facilities equipment for HVAC and power delivery have both physical and logical parts, they are basically very similar in nature. IT equipment, like servers, has two distinct parts: physical (hardware) and logical (software). DCIM has taken both facilities and IT equipment in designing and operating a data center. Moving ahead, we may want to consider how we can make DCIM even more effective. This is shown in the following figure.

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Before virtualization and cloud computing, each application had a dedicated physical server and did not move away from the designated server, regardless of its utilization. As each application is virtualized and tied to a virtual server in the form of virtual machine (VM) and multiple VMs are placed on a single physical server, each VM may be created, killed, or moved from one physical server to another in real time. This is done to reflect application utilization. If an application is not used much, it may be stopped or killed. If enough VMs are removed from one physical server, it may no longer be necessary to run that physical server, and it can be shut down or put to sleep. If the physical server?s utilization is down, so is the cooling and power requirement for it. Facilities equipment for this may need dynamic adjustments in real time. So we need more tight integration of the virtual and physical sides of a data center for effective operation.

I will be moderating a panel on this issue, brought by BrightTalk at 9 a.m. (PDT) on August 16,

DCIM: Managing the Facilities and IT of the Data Center ? Panel Session

We have a terrific set of panelists, listed below. Please join me in the discussion

Panelists:

? Peter Gilbert, VP, Energy & Sustainability Solutions Strategy, CA Technologies

? Derek Schwartz, Deputy, IT Operations & Maintenance NIEHS at SRA International & Executive Director and Founder of The Green Data Center Alliance

? Robert Haggerty, Mission Critical Operations

About Zen Kishimoto

Dr. Zen Kishimoto is in charge of Green IT at Alta Terra. His broad technology background and diverse functional roles at individual-contributor and executive levels in large corporations and start-ups is a strong basis for conducting research in the greening of IT. Both strategic and tactical insights based on these experiences are necessary to make IT and its related technologies greener, since both a holistic and component-level view are necessary. This is specifically so in his first area of concentration?data centers?in which a large number of software, computer hardware, and networking components as well as facility elements are interrelated and configured in a complex manner. For over 25 years, Zen was involved in various technology areas as a user and a vendor, including software development methodologies/process/tools, Open Source Software (OSS), Internet/Network security, embedded software/systems, networking, Web, VoIP and to name a few. Based on exposure to those multiple technology areas, he can take a view from the perspectives of a user and a vendor of each technology as necessary. After working for Fortune 100 companies, Zen has been a successful entrepreneur and software business consultant specializing in product management, turning technologies to viable business and covering each phase of product management. This includes market research, technology assessment, project management, technical marketing, promotion, product launch, business development and sales. In addition, he produced numerous research papers for his clients in the areas of software and telecommunication as a consultant. In addition, Zen, originally from Japan, has a web of business contacts and relationships in Japan and is keen on the green IT/Technology market outside of the US, bridging language, culture and business practice for his clients. As greening of IT and its related technologies require a global view, he can give appropriate advices and comments not confined to the US domestic view but global ones for his clients. Finally, before joining Alta Terra, he has played CTO, COO and other executive roles in Silicon Valley startups, including Cardsoft. Earlier he served as functional general manager and Senior Director at NEC Technologies, where he started the Internet business unit. He has held technical positions at NEC, Hewlett Packard and GTE. He is also the principal of IP Devices, a software business and market research consultancy specializing in IT infrastructure.

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