The First Well-structured Green Data Centre Trainings in Hong Kong

Get ready to become a data centre energy specialist and prepare for an international data centre award in energy efficiency - CEEDA

Today, many organizations are looking for new ways of doing more with less, reducing IT budgets or curtailing the incidental costs associated with data center expansions. And data center managers need to focus on creating efficient operating environments to augment the life of existing data centers. Data center efficiencies can be attained through increasing compute densities, creating cold aisle containment systems or more effective use of outside air, but the key component over time is to have an easily understood metric to gauge data center efficiency, and how much improvement is taking place.

StrategicMedia Asia (SMA) provides any data centre and IT professionals with top level understanding of best practices in energy efficient data centre management from a series of 3 accredited certificate courses and training seminars (below) which focus on international green standard, financial and regulatory, facilities management, hardware management and software / system networks of Data Centre.

 Data Centre Facility and Infrastructure Engineering

The section is fundamental for executive and data centre owners, managers and operators to enrich their basic knowledge beyond the industry jargons and terminology. We provide a general introduction of the critical infrastructure system that supports typical Data Centres and environments. It also prepares you to fully understand the main components that facilitate Data Centre design & build, operation and management.

Green IT

The training provides a fundamental qualification for ICT engineers who are involved in creating sustainable and energy efficient data centre or exploiting the role of IT in helping deliver sustainable ICT operation and more efficient business practices to other areas of the organization. It also introduces different Green Standards such as ISO 14000 Series (Energy Measurement), Energy Star and PUE / DCiE (From The Green Grid).

Energy and Cost Management in Data Centre

This section explicitly deals with an organization's strategy as it relates to the effective use of energy by software, ICT systems and support infrastructure (mechanical and electrical systems) within the data centre. It will impart an understanding of the use and cost of energy in data centres with an appreciation of the contributing factors, awareness of best practices at a high-level and strategies to control and manage energy consumption and cost in data centres. Key area include:

Cost & Energy Monitoring and Reporting in Data Centre

How to Manage Energy and Cost

Interdisciplinary Teams’ Interactions and Communications

Energy Management and Energy Performance Efficiency

Efficiency Metrics

Metering

Reporting Energy and Carbon e.g. for CRC

Reporting Cost - The challenge of per cost accounting

The Roles for -

Estate Management, Facilities Management, Data Centre Manager,

IT Management, IT Analysts, Business Management

EU Code of Conduct in Data Centre

The training will impart an understanding of the purpose of the EU Code of Conduct and how to apply the Code's best practices at a high-level as well as helping you to develop a common language around energy efficiency. Key area include:

The reason of implementing best practice in the Code of Conduct

The bodies who use the EU Code of Conduct

Energy Measurement and Metrics

Best Practice - Interactions and Interdependencies

Best Practice - In detail

- Data Centre Utilization, Management and Planning

- IT Equipment and Services

- Cooling

- Data Centre Power Equipment

- Other Data Centre Equipment

- Data Centre Building

- Monitoring

- Practices to become minimum expected

- Items under consideration

Green Data Centre Remians Hot in next 5 to 10 years

Companies are beginning to focus more on implementing systems that will reduce their energy expenses and carbon emissions, according to a study by Pike Research.


Enterprises’ investment in environmentally-friendly data centre systems will grow sharply over the next ten years, rising to represent 28 percent of the total data centre market.

In a change from the past, companies are now focused on implementing systems that will reduce their energy expenses and carbon emissions. As a result, global revenues associated with green data centre technologies will grow from $7.5bn (£4.3bn) to $41.4bn by 2015. That increase is partly due to greater awareness of the financial benefits of greater efficiency and Corporate Images (CSR, Corporate Social Responsibility).

The cost of energy has seldom been a concern for IT departments in the past and there was little incentive to invest in energy efficiency improvements. However as data centre energy costs become more visible, the financial benefits of moving to a green mode of operation are being recognised by CEOs, CFOs and CIOs.


Green Transformation


The change is part of a broader shift in data centre technology, which is seeing the growing use of adaptable technologies such as virtualisation. This change is also shifting the way data centres are designed and the relationship between IT and business sides of organisations.

Power and cooling, still, are key issues and make up the largest proportion of the green data centre market segment, making up 46 percent of the segment’s revenues by 2015, according to the study. The second-largest category will be energy-efficient IT equipment, accounting for 41 percent of the market segment, and monitoring and management equipment for Auditing, with 14 percent, according to the “Green Data Centres” report.

Adopted from www.eweekeurope.co.uk