The Life Cycle of a Data Center

Your data center is alive.

It is a living, breathing, and sometimes even growing entity that constantly must adapt to change. The length of its life depends on use, design, build, and operation.

Equipment will be replaced, changed, and may be modified to best equip your specific data center’s individual specification to balance the total cost of ownership with risk and redundancy measures.

Just as with a human being, the individual care and love you show your data center can lengthen the life of your partnership.

This, best utilizing and tailoring your data center to extend its life cycle, is addressed by Morrison Hershfield Critical Facilities Practice Lead, Steven Shapiro, in his upcoming Data Center World presentation, “The Life Cycle of a Data Center”.

“Life cycle cost, sometimes referred to as return on investment, at its simplest level, is the study of an infrastructure system or component for the data center that takes into account all of these issues to develop a clear and concise means to decide which systems or components to choose that will provide the lowest life cycle cost for the facility,” Shapiro explained.

“The lowest life cycle cost, or the shortest return on investment, is the best investment that can be made for the data center. These studies do not take into account the preferences of the operations staff, or the ease of operation or maintenance unless that ease directly translates into dollars and cents.”

Systems that may be subject to these types of evaluations range from general building construction to each of the mechanical electrical, fire protection and plumbing system in the facility.

By the end of this presentation the attendees will understand the life of the most expensive facility in their portfolio, their data center.

Key questions that will be addressed, and key problems that will be solved in this session are:

Steven Shapiro will be presenting “The Life Cycle of a Data Center” Thursday, March 17^th from 10:45 – 11:45am in the ‘Tradewinds AB’ room at Data Center World.

Shapiro will also be presenting “EPMS – What is it, do I need it, isn’t it DCIM?” exploring the value an EPMS system provides when utilized within the data center for operations and forensic applications Tuesday, March 15^th from 1:00 – 2:00pm in the ‘Islander Ballroom D’ at Data Center World.

Join Steven Shapiro and 1,300 of your peers at Data Center World Global 2016, March 14-18, in Las Vegas, NV, for a real-world, “get it done” approach to converging efficiency, resiliency and agility for data center leadership in the digital enterprise. More details on the Data Center World website.

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