| Description |
1 online resource (242 p.) |
| Contents |
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acronyms & Symbols -- Foreword by Tom Glover -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Aboutthe Authors -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 What Drives the Need and the Various Types of Data Centres -- Data Demand versus Compute Efficiency -- Workload Placement -- The Core Components of a Data Centre -- Types of Data Centres -- Entreprise Data Centre -- Colocation -- Public Cloud -- Urban or Edge -- Chapter 3 Site Selection -- Climate -- Access Roads and Airports -- Air Quality -- Likelihood of Natural Disasters -- Ground Conditions |
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Communications Infrastructure -- Latency -- Proximity to Subsea Cable Landing Sites -- Density of Fibre Telecommunication Networks Near the Data Centre -- Geopolitical Risks, Laws, and Regulations -- Availability and Cost of Electrical Power -- Natural Resources -- Airport Flight Paths -- Electromagnetic Interference -- Taxes, Regulations, and Incentives -- Incentives -- Know the Stakeholders -- Expect the Unexpected -- Traditional Due Diligence -- Retrofitting Commercial Buildings for Data Centres -- Clusters -- Qualitative Analysis -- Quantitative Analysis |
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Chapter 4 IT Operations and the Evolution of the Data Centre -- Beginning of IT Infrastructure -- Bringing Enterprise IT to Maturity -- IT Applications as Standalone Products - The Digital Economy -- Second Iteration of the Internet -- Key Ingredients for Digital Products -- Difference Between Enterprise IT Infrastructure and Hosting Infrastructure -- Commoditisation of IT Infrastructure -- Virtualisation: Servers and Data Centres as Generators for Digital Resources -- Software-as-a-Service: Digital Natives Entering the Enterprise |
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Great Outsourcing of Enterprise IT and the Growth of the Colocation Model -- When Digital Products Scale - or the Invention of Hyperscale -- A Change in Architecture - The Rise of Cloud Infrastructure -- Origin of a Market for Digital Resources -- When Cloud Infrastructure Became Cloud Services -- When Microsoft and Google Joined the Party -- Kubernetes and the Next Layer of Abstraction -- How Traditional Hosting Companies Have Been Left Behind -- How the New Paradigm of Cloud Infrastructure Is Changing How Data Centres Are Built |
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Central Role of Connectivity in the Future of Data Centre Architectures -- Problem of an Old IT Philosophy -- Chapter 5 Overview of Infrastructure -- Power -- Cooling -- BMS -- Fire -- Security -- Chapter 6 Building a Data Centre: Stakeholders, Design, Construction, and Commissioning -- Stakeholders and Project Stages -- Pre-project -- Pre-design -- Design -- Bricks and Mortar versus Modular Build -- Procurement -- Construction -- Commissioning -- Handover (see also Chapter 7) -- Operation -- Chapter 7 Operational Issues -- Handover -- Legacy Facilities -- Operations Team -- Uptime and Failures |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
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Maintenance Processes and Procedures |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Flucker, Sophia
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| ISBN |
9781119898825 |
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111989882X |
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1119898846 |
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9781119898849 |
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