Comments on: Open Sourcing Data Center Design

By: Ekin Berke ELEMAN

Ekin Berke ELEMAN — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 08:57:30 +0000

Please send me some news about DC

By: Ronja Birlew

Ronja Birlew — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 17:51:33 +0000

As someone who’s primary job function is to work closely with A&E firms to make aware the importance of having the holes (and solutions) spec’d in on the front end of a data center build, I agree that information is hard to come by. I think the information sharing is a wonderful idea so every aspect of a DC, from bypass airflow solutions to hot spots in the servers racks can be address in a best practice format. This will not only increase density, minimize OpEx, minimize CapEx and increase energy efficiency but will also push for a green environment which can offer large tax deductions as well. Isn’t that what everyone wants?

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By: Rex

Rex — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 18:35:27 +0000

Great idea!

I’ve spent the last couple of years scouring the web to borrow data center ideas from Amazon, Google, Intel, LLNL, Microsoft, PG&E, SDSC, Sun (now Oracle) and others, often with the help of DCK (Thanks!). I hope many of those organizations choose to participate in this initiative.

I also found a lot of snake oil from vendors with a vested interest in selling complex, expensive products.

I hope this initiative includes information for small data centers. Tens of thousands of smaller data centers in the USA probably add up to a lot of electricity consumption, and they aren’t going away. Small data center builders/operators could benefit from a reliable source of design information, since they usually don’t have in-house data center experts.