Data Center Economics

Presenters: Nik Simpson, Drue Reeves, Richard Jones, and Jack Santos

Duration: 3hrs 55min

Description: This workshop examines some of the key aspects in reducing costs in the data center. Data center consolidation, efficient power and cooling designs, data center staffing and planning are addressed.

Reducing costs in the data center requires looking at all operational and architectural aspects in the data center from choosing the best data center location, hardware platform selection, power delivery chain management, cooling efficiency, virtualization platform selection, capacity planning, storage efficiency and SAN integration, and personnel management. However, reducing costs within the data center should not sacrifice business continuity. Attendees will leave this workshop with knowledge and approaches toward reducing data center costs without sacrificing application availability.

Attendees will learn about:

• Why understanding data center costs is important
• The CIO perspective on data center economics
• Understanding and controlling Disaster Recovery & /Business Continuity costs
• Comparing cloud costs to data center costs
• Building a cost model for the data center