Data Center Pulse: An exclusive group of global datacenter owners, operators and users. The goal of this community is to track the pulse of the industry and influence the future of the datacenter through discussion and debate.

Episode 15 - The Stack

In this episode, Dean Nelson talks with Jeremy Rodriguez, the Co-Chair of the Data Center Pulse Technical Advisory Board (TAB), about the development of the Stack Framework. The Stack is an output of the DCP Summit in February, 2009. It is a common and holistic way to look at the all layers of the datacenter stack, their dependencies on each other and their impact on the overall datacenter efficiency. The ultimate goal is for DCP users to define and adopt a standard way of defining and measuring all components of the datacenter. The development work is underway with a target of adoption by January 1, 2010.

Data Center Pulse Rapid Growth Reaches 1,000 Member Milestone



PRESS RELEASE

UNION CITY, CA, June 26, 2009 – Data Center Pulse Inc. (DCP), a newly formed datacenter industry organization, today announced that it has enrolled its 1,000th member. This major milestone has been reached in just under 9 months, bringing the DCP community into 45 countries representing over 600 companies in virtually every market segment both public and private.

“We knew that there was a gap in the industry, but we were surprised at how quickly the membership grew”, says Dean Nelson, co-founder and Chairman of DCP. “Our goal was simple; to create a place that datacenter industry operators could gather to share ideas on best practices and ultimately influence the industry. With the myriad of pressures we are all facing; rising costs, density increases, complexity and new ecological scrutiny; we knew that a collaborative community could prove to be very beneficial.”

Data Center Pulse Inc. is an exclusive group of datacenter owners and operators influencing the industry through end users. DCP was formed September 13, 2008 on LinkedIn and in just nine short months they have attracted members ranging from some of the most innovative startups to many of the largest companies in the world.

DCP Members must participate, or be responsible for, one or more of the following within their own company: Data Center Strategy, Architecture/Design, Operations, Efficiency, Sustainability or Use. DCP does not allow members with primary jobs in sales, marketing, PR, consulting or business development.

The DCP members are the individuals that evaluate, recommend and purchase the products and services for the datacenter. They represent billions of dollars of annual purchases that drive the IT economy. They are the datacenter customers.

About Data Center Pulse: Data Center Pulse (DCP) is a growing, non-profit, datacenter industry organization founded on the principles of sharing best practices amongst its exclusive membership. Founded in late 2008, DCP has quickly become an industry nexus for the explosive datacenter industry’s operators and influencers. DCP’s mission is to align end users to share information thereby influencing the industry by defining, adopting and driving energy efficiency and best practices. The DCP members are the individuals that evaluate, recommend and purchase the products and services for the datacenter. They represent billions of dollars of annual purchases that drive the IT economy.

     End-Users can join DCP HERE
     Non End-Users can join DCP Industry HERE



Apply for Energy Efficient Information & Communication Technology Solicitation

The U.S. Department of Energy Industrial Technologies Program has issued a new funding opportunity announcement (FOA) titled “Energy Efficient Information and Communication Technology,” which is supported with funds appropriated by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. The purpose of this solicitation is to encourage research, development, and demonstration (RD&D) of energy efficient information and communications technology (ICT) systems throughout the United States. The deadline for this opportunity is July 21, 2009, 11:59 PM EDT, so don’t delay!

This FOA seeks to develop new technologies to dramatically improve energy efficiency in ICT with an emphasis on new technologies that can be commercialized within the next 3 to 5 years, and to demonstrate through field testing highly energy efficient, emerging technologies that are ready for or are in the initial stage of commercial introduction. Approximately $50 million will be awarded to projects under this announcement, and all funds are expected to be expended within a 2-year period from the date of award.  

There are three broad areas of interest:

  • Concept Definition Studies for Energy Efficient Information and Communication Technology
  • Information and Communications Technologies R&D for Energy Efficiency
  • Demonstration and Field Testing of Highly Efficient and Emerging Technologies for Data Center or Telecommunication Use.

Applications for this FOA should be submitted through FedConnect. Visit ITP’s Solicitations Web page for detailed information about the application process.

For additional Recovery Act funding opportunities, visit EERE’s American Recovery & Reinvestment Act Web site and DOE’s Recovery and Reinvestment Web site.

National Data Center Power Reduction Incentive Program



FINAL PROPOSAL

     Proposal to the United States Secretary of Energy, Dr. Steven Chu  

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

Problem Statement

Upwards of 2% of our nation’s power is consumed by our nation’s data centers, computer rooms, and engineering spaces. The EPA estimates that annual growth in data center energy consumption is roughly 16%. Proven energy efficiency solutions exist for data centers that dramatically improve efficiency of power usage. However, adoption rate is abysmal. Solutions have existed for over 5 years, but are not adopted due to risk aversion, misunderstanding or lack of corporate prioritization. Decisions are based on a limited knowledge of the long term ROI potential. A small percentage of utility districts offer energy reduction rebate programs.These programs are unable to make significant headway in getting businesses to change their energy use habits due to the lack of a common national framework.

Opportunity Statement

The potential for data center energy efficiency improvement is as much as 80%. This target is too significant to ignore. With appropriate funding and focus we can reduce our nation’s power consumption over the next three years by upwards of 1% and in so doing also limit or even halt our long-term energy consumption growth. As corporations engage this program they will purchase capital assets, make capital improvements to their facilities, and push vendor companies to develop new more efficient solutions. Through this program we can improve the economy, strengthen our “green tech” industries and reduce our dependence on foreign energy.

Proposal

Data Center Pulse, an organization of independent, vendor neutral, national and global data center owners is proposing the creation of a partnership with the US Federal Government. Through this partnership a national standardized power efficiency rebate program related to data centers and other compute related facilities would be created. The program development and leadership would come from Data Center Pulse, with rebate funding support from a combination of the federal government and utilities.

There is no better time than the present for the U.S. Government to take a leadership role in combination with Data Center Pulse to support a nationwide compute infrastructure power efficiency improvement program in cooperation with utilities, utility districts, and business. With Data Center Pulse providing program leadership and management you have the strength of nearly 1,000 data center owners and operators with years of experience and expertise in this space providing a sounding board and “feet on the street” for the entire community of users and partners to leverage. By leveraging the Data Center Pulse end-user community, program development and execution can be accelerated and end-user adoption dramatically increased.


FEEDBACK

     feedback@datacenterpulse.org



Episode 14 - Chill Off 2 Knuerr CoolTherm

In this episode Dean Nelson interviews Heiko Ebermann, the Global Product Manager of Thermal Systems with Kneurr. Their CoolTherm product is the first to be tested in the chill off 2. It is a contained water cooled rack up to 35kW in 37U.

Data Center Pulse Global Summit, California 2009 - RESULTS



February 17-19, 2009 - Santa Clara, CA


DCP OVERVIEW

Data Center Pulse is non-profit global organization of experienced individuals who face similar challenges and share common interests around the purchase and consumption of products and services in the data center. We are independent, neutral, unified voice creating common themes that organize the thoughts, challenges and needs of the end-user community to influence the Data Center & IT industries. We are the Data Center customers.


SUMMIT OVERVIEW

The goal of this summit was to engage the global community to discuss, debate and rapidly report the top interest areas of the membership. The membership selected the topics of Alignment, Certification, Cloud Computing, Emerging Cooling Technologies, Power and Metrics. The interaction incorporated face-to-face in California, and on-line globally with localized final content review in the Netherlands and India. The presentations below were presented to the industry just 36 hours after the summit working sessions. For more details on the summit, see this DCP Blog Entry


TRACK RESULTS

     [ pdf | video: (part1) (part2) ]   Top 10
     [ pdf | video: (part1) (part2) ]   Data Center Metrics
     [ pdf | video: (part1) (part2) ]   Data Center Certification
     [ pdf | video ]   The Power Trip
     [ pdf | video ]   Fanless Server
     [ pdf | video ]   Cloud Computing
     [ pdf | video ]   Alignment


TOP 10 SUMMARY

       1. Align Industry Organizations - Global Consortium
       2. Data Center Certification Standard
       3. Standard Data Center Stack
       4. Update or Dump the Tier Levels
       5. More Products Enabling Modularity
       6. Simple Top Level Efficiency Metric
       7. End to End IT/Facilities Measurement
       8. Standard Conductive Cooling Interface
       9. 480/277V Power Supplies
       10. Independent Data Center Repository

FEEDBACK

     feedback@datacenterpulse.com


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