During his latest and greatest presentation, Mark took us through Global Data Center Trends. Today we will highlight the first 10 of those trends:

The “2016 and Beyond” Data Center Enterprise Trends Being Observed Globally

1) Data center enterprise solutions are trending more to comprehensive “hybrid” solutions encompassing: – Cloud Computing (external and internal) – Co-location – Data center maintained facilities
2) “Non-critical” data center applications/data migrates to cloud/3rd party providers.

3) Significant focus on “data breaches” and the corresponding liability: – Where is data stored? – Who is liable? – What are the “liability” terms?

4) Impacts of government/regulatory agency laws associated with liability of data: – Healthcare – Banking/Finance – Retail – University – Non-Profit – Classified/Top Secret – Research – Military – Automotive/Electronics/Driverless Vehicles – Tax Returns/Social Security

5) Government/judiciary access to the “iPhones”.

6) Continued pressure on enterprise data centers to reduce “CAPEX” and optimize “OPEX”.

7) “Just in time” data processing expansion that minimizes delivery to enterprise.

8) Energy efficiency – DCIM

9) Deployment of high performance computing.

10)Mergers

Next week we will release the trends 11-22 outline in Part I of Mark’s presentation. To view the complete presentation, sign up for our White Papers/Presentations!

We gave you 1 – 10 of the Global Data Center Enterprise Trends being observed in 2016, now here is #11 – 22 on Mark Evanko’s list from his latest AFCOM presentation:

11)Data center consolidation

12)Growing: The focus of risk to the enterprise/brand.

13)Continued focus on “short term” financials.

14)Board/trustee increased involvement in the data center enterprise solution.

• Liability

15)A scalable/flexible/modular data center enterprise solution.

16)A heightened awareness:

• Data center downtime
• Data security breaches
• Liability
• Brand impacts

17)Communication/data transfer:

• Immediate
• Voice
• Data
• Learning

18)Current 2016+ (Uptime Institute 2016 Survey)

• 71%: Estimated percentage of all IT assets currently sitting in enterprise data centers.
• 20%: Estimated percentage of all IT assets currently sitting in colocation data centers.
• 9%: Estimated percentage of all IT assets currently deployed in cloud.

19)Synchronous data replication of critical systems.

20)“Internal” OPEX costs (30 year) of data center enterprise solutions.

21)The use of “all” with data analytics.

22)Enterprise analysis of “hybrid” data center solutions.

Here we give you thought leadership at its best. We would like to begin to breakdown the 16 Elements Considered in the Data Center Hybrid Solutions as outlined in Mark Evanko’s latest presentation. To view the full presentation, sign up Presentations / White Papers

1) Facility Infrastructure

A. Architectural

B. Civil

C. Electrical

D. Fire Protection (EPO Code Change) – Update NEC/NFPA vs. Factory Mutual

E. Mechanical – CFD Models

F. Security

G. Site

H. Structural

I. Geographic Regional Considerations… i.e. southwest hurricanes, west earthquakes, etc.

2) Energy Efficiency

A. ASHRAE 9.9 – Higher Inlet Temperatures  80° F  90° F  t of 20-25° F

B. Containment  Hot Aisle  Cold Aisle  Impact to people

C. DCIM

 Gartner “Magic Quadrant”  Per data centre (UK)

a. Reduction in costs b. Integration c. Valuable insights d. Increased productivity e. Environmental benefits

D. CFD Models  Why  Updates

E. Submerged Data Center Solutions  Microsoft

F. Outside Air to Cool Data Centers

G. Virtualization of Servers

H. LEED – New Data Center Guidelines  Written to save “dollars” and be more green  Office of Management and Budget to create a strategy  DOE and EPA to study server and data center efficiency trends  New “data center energy practitioner program”  New “metrics”  Data center LEED guidelines – New – LEED v4 – October 2014 US Green Building Council (USGBC)

I. Unity (close to) Power Factors on UPS Systems

(I’m thinking Mark likes to list items up to the letter “I”) 🙂

In festive holiday spirit we’d like to share with all of you, 12 Days of Mark Evanko’isms! 12 Days of personal attributes, quotes and one liners from our one of a kind Principal, Mark Evanko!

Day 1: Today we would like to highlight the term in which Mark introduces himself in meetings, conferences, presentations etc: “Mark Evanko, a Paranoid Schizophrenic Conservative Engineer”

Day 2: Mark Evanko is a gentleman and does not use profanity. Here are some of our favorites: “We’re gonna be in deep sneakers!”
“He’s a Cone Head.”
“Tell him to go jump in a lake!”

Day 3 – how Mark expresses the chaos and uncertainty of the day to day:

You were promised big savings versus what it cost previously to host your own workloads. Now, you get your first bill. Any surprises?

How to accurately model expected Cloud Capacity & Network Bandwidth Fee’s & Charges

VAiLPLEX provides an ability to visually model the required target capacity (CPU, memory, disk, etc) and the network utilization required for both the preparation for the move (server/data replication, etc) as well as the workloads that will converse back to the original site until the completion of the move series. If a very chatty workload will be split across sites, the impact of this to the end-user (latency) as well as the network bandwidth capacity this will require must be understood.

For more information please email BRUNS-PAK at jporr@bruns-pak.com, or call 937-205-0792 for more information on how you can leverage VAiLPLEX to programmatically control and visually manage complex workloads and inter-relationships to prepare for data center transitions, consolidations, DR validation, Cloud migrations or daily operational IT infrastructure management.

Great read that we’d like to share!

by Mark Vanderbeek on January 9, 2017

The “Last Mile” refers to the last, local legs of communication that connect the user to the Internet. For universities and large businesses, this is the responsibility of the IT department. For most enterprises, dependency on the Internet has soared in recent history. Email has become the primary form of communication. Desk phones are almost all VoIP now. Instant Messaging, video conferencing, and desktop sharing have become indispensable tools.

The Cloud has further intensified this trend, with SaaS applications commonly being used for Sales, HR, ERP, File Sharing, Learning Management Systems, Marketing, Service Desk and an ever expanding list of other critical services……View full article here:

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/hardening-last-mile-evan-h-jafa

Are you really secure?

2016-2017 Cyber Crime Costs are now projected to reach $2 Trillion per year

• Cyber Security Bill for 2015: $75 billion spent, $300 billion lost
• Three years ago, the The Wall Street Journal estimated that the cost of cyber crime in the U.S. was approximately $100 billion. The estimate disputed other reports which pegged the numbers by as much as ten times higher – Forbes
• ‘Crime wave’ is an understatement when you consider the costs that businesses are suffering as a result of cyber crime. ‘Epidemic’ is more like it.
• Cyber crime may be the single, greatest threat to every company in the world.
• Grant Thornton, a global accounting advisory firm, has just released the results of their global survey on cyber security attacks. The total estimated cost of cyber security attacks over the past 12 months, in American dollars, is $315 billion. The findings are based on a survey of 2,500 international business leaders in 35 economies. Regionally, cyber security attacks cost Asia Pacific businesses $81bn in the past 12 months, while firms in the EU ($62bn) and North America ($61bn) are also counting the significant cost of attacks.

• Close any IT & operational gaps where information leaks and compliance issues originate.
• Proactively address threats from the outside – in, and more importantly, from the inside – out
• Get detailed Analysis of Traffic Patterns and Device Activities
• Identify Rogue applications
• Protect electronic intellectual property
• Detect statistical Anomalies
• Assess and manage Enterprise Vulnerabilities
• Stop Ransomware
• Block internal access to and from non-business countries

Good Afternoon! One of BRUNS-PAK’s goals is to share our Thought Leadership with our Clients and Potential Clients first and our industry. We can all agree that its important to understand where we are at in order to begin to plan where we need to go. One of our favorite resources is this simple Data Center Reliability Level Scale; a table that will help you pinpoint where your facility’s Data Center ranks. We are glad to provide you this starting point:

https://www.bruns-pak.com/resources/data-center-reliability-levels/

 This is a summary of BRUNS-PAK’s Reliability Scale. A more detailed breakdown of the architectual, electrical, mechanical, fire suppression, and security elements within the BRUNS-PAK 1-10 Scale is addressed in BRUNS-PAK’s initial consulting engagements.

Hello! If you missed Mark Evanko present “Data Center Enterprise Transformation 2017” @AFCOM Data Center World or if you need a refresher, you are in luck! Over that next few weeks we will break down the parts of Mark’s presentation and share!

Below is the Intro and Agenda of the presentation.

Learn about the continued transformation of data center “solutions” in the year 2017 and beyond!

The presentation:

1) Defines the elements of the data center transformation.

2) Identifies the underlying factors of the cause of transformation.

3) Summarizes how risk and total cost of ownership impact the final decision.

AGENDA
I. The 2017 and Beyond Data Center Transformation

II. The Eighteen (18) Elements of the Comprehensive Data Center Solution

III. Evolving 2017 “Factors” Impacting the Data Center Transformation

IV. The Decision Process of Total Cost of Ownership vs. Risk (Short Term…Long Term)

V. Commentaries/Examples of 2016/2017

VI. Closing – Summary – Recap

Check back in for Part I, coming soon!

PART 1: The 2017 and Beyond Data Center Transformation

1) Data center “business as usual” continues to transform in 2017 at an accelerated pace
2) Enterprise data center solutions look for the most:

• Flexible/expandable/scalable data center
• Maximum risk aversion
• Continuous compliance
• Cost effectiveness
• Leveraging of the technology tools available and emerging
• Minimization of personnel
• Being best in class in a vendor neutral delivery
• Zero (goal) downtime
• *Financial/liability recovery to the enterprise

3) Types of data being directly categorized and mapped to compliance/security:

• Type I, II, III, and IV  Production vs. test vs. development vs. DR

4) Dominating theme of 2017 and beyond:

• Data security: Who maintains IT? Who is liable?
• Compliance
• Financial impacts
• Cybersecurity

5) Why would board members, trustees, and/or government be concerned:

• Gross negligence
• SLA’s vs. recovery
• Brand impact
• Fiduciary responsibility
• Recent (2016/2017) class action lawsuits

6) The role of 3rd party providers/partners:

• Technical expertise/proficiency
• Financial stability
• Damages to be paid from a potential “event” – see contracts

7) Data breaches dominating 2016/2017 and beyond

8) The total cost of ownership opex vs. capex discussion

• Trends 2017

9) Current 2016+ (Uptime Institute 2016 Survey):

• 71%: Estimated percentage of all IT assets currently sitting in enterprise data centers
• 20%: Estimated percentage of all IT assets currently sitting in colocation data centers (and growing)
• 9%: Estimated percentage of all IT assets currently deployed in cloud

10)Transformative industries and their impacts:

• Education remote
• “Driverless” vehicles a) Personal b) Commercial
• Banking
• Food and delivery
• Merchandise (brick and mortar)
• Video conferencing vs. travel

I. How do the “eighteen elements” combine to optimize the data center enterprise solution? – Total cost of ownership – Risk – Scalability – “Critical vs. non-critical” application data – Best Practices
II. The dominating theme of #10 – Communications/Network, #11 – Server Level Agreement, #16 – Legal Repercussions, #17 – Cybersecurity, and #18 – Compliance

1.Facility Infrastructure

• A. Architectural
• B. Civil
• C. Electrical
• D. Fire Protection (EPO Code Change) – Update NEC/NFPA vs. Factory Mutual
• E. Mechanical – CFD Models
• F. Security
• G. Site
• H. Structural
• I. Geographic Regional Considerations… i.e. southwest hurricanes, west earthquakes, etc.

2. Energy Efficiency

• A. ASHRAE 9.9 – Higher Inlet Temperatures  80° F  90° F  t of 20-25° F
• B. Containment  Hot Aisle  Cold Aisle  Impact to people
• C. DCIM  Gartner “Magic Quadrant”  Per data centre (UK) a. Reduction in costs b. Integration c. Valuable insights d. Increased productivity e. Environmental benefits 14Twitter:
• D. CFD Models  Why  Updates
• E. Submerged Data Center Solutions  Microsoft
• F. Outside Air to Cool Data Centers
• G. Virtualization of Servers
• H. LEED – New Data Center Guidelines  Written to save “dollars” and be more green  Office of Management and Budget to create a strategy  DOE and EPA to study server and data center efficiency trends  New “data center energy practitioner program”  New “metrics”  Data center LEED guidelines – New – LEED v4 – October 2014 US Green Building Council (USGBC)
• I. Unity (close to) Power Factors on UPS Systems

3) Computer Hardware

• A. Higher Efficiency
• B. High Performance Computing (HPC) Continues to Dominate
• C. New Flash Storage
• D. Water Cooled to the Chip in 2016 and Beyond
• E. 52” Deep by 30” Rack!!!
• F. Non-Uniform Cabinet Distribution
• G. “Submerged” systems in cooling

How do the “eighteen elements” combine to optimize the data center enterprise solution? – Total cost of ownership – Risk – Scalability – “Critical vs. non-critical” application data – Best Practices

4) Cloud

A. Managed services

B. Internal vs. external

C. Migration to the cloud

D. Migration Back?

E. Moves/adds/changes

F. Trouble shooting

G. True “partner” of equal financial stability

H. Downtime: Who Pays?

I. Security Breach: Who Pays?

J. Terms and conditions (Legal Beagles!!!) 2016+ in motion

K. Production vs. Test/Development
L. Applications Conducive to Cloud – General Common Platform – Candidacy

M. Where is My Data? Who Manages? Do You Care?

N. “New” 2016/2017 United States Legislation – “Company” Liability for Data

O. Speed to delivery of applications

P. The 2016 / 2017 contract language for cloud contracts

Q. Critical vs. non-critical data R. Moves/adds/changes S. Amazon, Microsoft, Google, etc. If Interruption – What is Impact?

5) Disaster Recovery

A. Downtime Tolerance – critical  None to 2 days

B. Synchronous Data Replication  Impact to Data Center Facility Infrastructures  Hardware, Software, Network, and Personnel Consideration

C. “100 Mile” Disaster Recovery vs. Multiple “Regional” Recovery Centers

D. Testing

E. Testing of Disaster Recovery Plan

F. Government Regulations for Uptime

6) Co-Location

A. Leased data center constructed space

B. Capex schedule of delivery minimized

C. ROI – see total cost of ownership – 4+?

D. Other tenants? – Impact of security – Dominating 2016/2017

E. Downtime: Who pays? – Dominating 2016/2017

F. Security Breach: Who pays? – Dominating 2016/2017

G. Terms and conditions (Legal Beagles 2016/2017!!!)

H. “New” 2015 United States Legislation – Progressing – Class Action Lawsuits

I. Financial strength of service providers – see Cushman Wakefield survey of “economics” 2016 report – DANGER!

J. Moves/add/changes

K. New 2015/2016/2017 “Internal” Self Funded Co-location “Lease” Data Center Solutions