Transcript Data Centre Certified Technician

An overview of the Data Centre industry.
Greg Sherry
RCDD, NTS, WD, DCEP
General Director, DC Professional Development OOO,
Principal Consultant, DC–168 Ltd.
Teresa Vita
Business Development Manager, DC Professional
Development OOO
At the heart of every computer there is a very simple fact, they only understand two states,
on and off, represented by ‘1’ and ‘0’, and this is the data that we are talking about 1’s and
0’s
This switching between states is carried out by the electronic components within the
device, primarily the processor, and the switches are called transistors.
It is the advances in the number of switches or transistors a processor can manage which
has led to the huge growth in the computer industry.
From 2,300 transistors on Intel’s first processor to over 7,000,000,000 on some
processors today.
1Megabyte of Data for every 20 km travelled
1Byte = 8 bits of data or 8 x ‘1’ or ‘0’
1,000,000 x 10101010
A 747 on a transatlantic flight will create 10TB of Data
10,000,000,000 x 10101010
There are 1000 747s flying everyday
Storage
Server
Network
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Data Centres
Can require power in excess
of 200MW, that’s enough to
run a city of 500,000 people
These facilities are often more than
100,000 sq m in size
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Availability
Energy Efficiency
Reliability
Resilience
To keep these facilities operating at their
best, we need to gather data about them.
Measuring and monitoring everything that
happens in a data centre is the key to
providing the services we use.
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In todays world, just about everything we do
generates data.
That data is stored in Data Centres
We totally rely on this information, so the facilities
must be properly maintained and managed
Measuring and monitoring systems to gather
facility data is at the heart of every Data Centre
Tereza Vita
Business Development Manager
DC Professional Development