08.02. Kick-Off Meeting Datacenter Expert Group
On 8 February, the kick-off meeting of the new eco Data Center Expert Group will take place. Part of the initiative are two new working groups, which will be: “Sustainable IT Management”, which will concentrate on issues such as energy efficiency and sustainability in the care of IT; and the working group “IT processes,” which will focus on process and standardisation issues. Also during the kick off meeting a third, and former working group eco Datacenter, will start its new renamed as the working group Datacenter Infrastructure.
Cologne, 2.2.2011 – eco podcast about the start of the new Datacenter Expert Group at 8. Feb. 2011 in Frankfurt (german).
Data centers have become an integral part of today’s IT infrastructure and lay the ground, based on large parts of the Internet economy. For several years, our data center working group within the eco association has been incredibly important in this arena. Great attention is especially place on the working group created by the Datacenter Star Audit for certification of data centers, whereby it objectively assesses services and infrastructure, and creates market transparency. But for providers of data centers, of course, not only are technical innovations interesting, but also economic perspectives, process organisation, purchasing and sales of Internet services play an important role. eco has therefore decided to restructure this topic: On 8 February, the kick-off meeting of the newly launched Data Centre Expert Group with be held. In the framework of our working groups, eco calls two new ones into being: “Sustainable IT Management and IT processes.”
AGENDA »Working Group Data Center Infrastructure
The Working Group Data Center will be renamed in the future to ‘Working Group Data Center Infrastructure’. It focuses on the development of best-practice approaches for different types of data centers (e.g. co-location provider, web and internal data centers). The emphasis remains on an open, confidential exchange of information between the data center operators, and creating benchmarks for the industry.
The line of leadership for this working group has continued with Dr. Béla Waldhauser, managing director of Global Switch FM GmbH.
Working Group Sustainable IT Management
The management of WG Sustainable IT Management will be with Marc Schaefer of the Technical University of Berlin. In 2008/2009 he was one of three academic staff from the Technical University of Berlin, who led the study of “energy efficiency in data centers“. This resulted in contact with the eco and the idea of the concept along with the art ICT Management (TU Berlin) and the opportunity for eco members to expand. Schaefer would like to discuss in the WG not only the technical perspective of the energy efficiency activities, but upstream and downstream areas, so the ISP can sustainably align their entire value chain. Thus, the WG is not only interesting for data center operators!
The aim of the Working Group Sustainable IT management is the integration of technical and economic efficiency potential for a holistic approach to implementation and controlling of sustainability in IT organisations. The areas of procurement, production (data center operation) and sales will be brought together at the level of the processes (technical and commercial, general planning) and systems (actual service provision). The Working Group “Sustainable IT Management” forms the denominator for the other two working groups.
Schaefer has some concrete ideas he would like to hold a vote on in the first session with the participants. It is important too learn and to see where the biggest problems are. “For us as a university, the collaboration between science and the association is exciting because we can align the research directly with the people, which we should take advantage of to achieve a better understanding” he says.
Working Group IT processes
The working group “IT processes” will be led by Dr. Jörg Kümmerlen, Managing Director of secopan UG, focusing on process and standardisation issues. The aim is to develop best practice guides for medium-sized data center providers, with which they can improve their quality management. For a market presence in many industries, such as the auto industry, it is necessary that the suppliers have a certain certification in quality management features. Within the compliance and IT services customers’ demands, there is more need for control and security over personal data. “It is time that mid-sized data center providers followed suit“, explains Dr. Jörg Kümmerlen and stressed: “Only if they improve on quality management in the provision of ITS services, can they themselves, in blooming markets such as Cloud Computing and SaaS, take on the large service providers such as Amazon and Microsoft“.
The aim of the Working Group IT processes is to provide an efficient quality management system for the participants to master the basics. By working together we will be able to create templates for a wide range of issues and topics related to processes and quality management, for the medium-sized companies to set their own quality management systems efficiently and pragmatically.
Kümmerlen dealt for years with the required standards and certifications. These standards were not very complex, but it was in some cases difficult to apply them without much prior knowledge on their own processes. There are similar working procedures for the provision of services by the individual participants of the WGs in many cases, the WG should develop a common and cost-effective framework for all participants.
| 12:00 | Registration & Networking |
| 12:45 | Welcome – Presentation eco Data Center Expert Group Dipl.-Ing. Roland Broch eco eV |
| 13:00 | Data Center 3.0 – Does the data center had its day? Dr. Béla Waldhauser Head WG Data Center Infrastructure |
| 13:45 | Inaugural meeting – WG “IT processes,” Dr. Jörg Kümmerlen Head AK IT processes |
| 14:00 | Keynote Speech: Overview – Best Practices – ITIL / ISO 20000 / CMMI Dipl.-Math. Gerhard Fessler SEI certified CMMI Lead Appraiser and Instructor |
| 14:45 | Coffee Break & Networking |
| 15:15 | Inaugural meeting – WG “Sustainable IT Management Dipl.-Ing. Marc Schaefer Head WG Sustainable IT Management |
| 15:30 | Keynote Speech: Sustainable IT management in IT organisations Fabian Löser Research Associate at the Department of ICT management at the TU Berlin |
| 16:15 | Discussion topic and develop a roadmap in 2011 Dr. Béla Waldhauser, Dr. Jörg Kümmerlen, Marc Schaefer |
| 17:30 | End of event / get together |
Location:
Lindleystraße 14
60314 Frankfurt am Main
goo.gl/maps/32IV
Date:
08.02.2011
12:00 Midday
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