About
Energy and associated infrasturcture costs of data centres, HPC clusters and server rooms can often be 50% or more of the total operating costs, and a significant proportion of lifetime captial costs. In practice, however, many of these costs are hidden from decision-makers because they fall outside central IT budgets and/or because they are concealed within broader cost categories.
Decisions about moving to cloud or shared services rather than internal provision can therefore be distorted. This free workshop will address these topics through a common morning session and separate afternoon breakouts on data centre operations and data centre and IT costing efficiency.
The event will reflect both European and North American experiences including:
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The US National Renewable Energy Laboratory whose new research support facility is carbon neutral
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The work of the University of York in costing its data centre and related IT services
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A new server room at the University of Cambridge's Department of Engineering which uses innovative technology to return energy cost savings to the department.
Programme
Monday 17 June
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Registration and refreshments
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Understanding data centre energy and infrastructure costs to enable more robust IT decisions and drive improvement
Lessons from e-InfraNet and Jisc activities.
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Rob Bristow
Programme manager
Professor Peter James
Director, SusteIT
Martin Bennett
Emeritus Reader in financial management, University of Gloucestershire
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(TBC) Using infrastructure-as-a-service to create a 'virtual data centre' at the University for the Creative Arts (UCA)
Paul Hopkins
Principal, HE-shared services, current interim IT director, University of Manchester and former interim IT director, UCA.
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US Experience: NREL’s Green and Cost Transparent Data Centre and HPC Facilities
Otto van Geet
Principal Engineer, US National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, Colorado.
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Lunch and networking
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Breakout sessions
Breakout 1: Full Costing of Data Centres and IT Services
(TBC): Costing IT Services at the University of York - Heidi Fraser Krauss, IT Director
Janet’s Approach to IT Costs: The X-Ray Tool and Other Services - Dan Perry or Pramod Philip, Janet tbc
Breakout 2: Best Practice Data Centre Innovations
Energy efficient server rooms at the University of Cambridge - David Green, Superintendent, Engineering Workshop
Second presentation tbc
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Refreshments
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Small Group/Plenary Discussion
Sharing experience and discussing opportunities, barriers (especially lack of cost visibility) and how to make progress
Who should attend
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Finance professionals
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IT professionals
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Energy/environmental professionals
Contact
For more information contact Rob Bristow (<a href="mailto:r.bristow@jisc.ac.uk">r.bristow@jisc.ac.uk</a>)