[LINK] AGIMO details Federal Government data centre needs

[Antony Barry]

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> From: rik at cloud.kawaja.net
> Date: 30 June 2010 7:01:09 PM AEST
> To: "Bernard Robertson-Dunn" <brd at iimetro.com.au>, link at mailman1.anu.edu.au
> Subject: Re: [LINK] AGIMO details Federal Government data centre needs
> Reply-To: rik at cloud.kawaja.net
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> 
> I've not looked at this particular RFT, but a significant proportion of data centre environmental impact relates to power infrastructure (phase balancing, AC/DC conversions, UPS, voltage conversions, distribution, etc) and cooling/humidity management efficiency.  There are also variances based on the source of the power, e.g. on-site tri-gen vs. public coal-based generation.
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> All of this before you put one piece of computing, storage or network infrastructure in place.
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> regards,
> rik. 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bernard Robertson-Dunn <brd at iimetro.com.au>
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> Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2010 17:54:10 
> To: <link at mailman1.anu.edu.au>
> Subject: Re: [LINK] AGIMO details Federal Government data centre needs
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> On 30/06/2010 3:26 PM, Tom Worthington wrote:
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>> Unfortunately the draft includes no requirements for sustainable (Green)
>> IT performance.
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> It's not unfortunate, it's deliberate. That's because the RFT applies 
> only to data centre facilties, not what's inside data centres.
> 
> Section 1.3 is quite specific on this point:
> "For the purposes of this SoR, government data centre sites are defined 
> as purpose built, permanent, shared enterprise facilities that can house 
> the full range of ICT equipment currently used or that will be used by 
> Agencies. The SoR is applicable to any space that provides electricity, 
> cooling, fire suppression and/or security to data centre ICT such as 
> servers, networks and data storage."
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> Most of your comments are relevant to "the full range of ICT equipment 
> currently used or that will be used by Agencies", not to the RFT for 
> facilities - a building with power supplied to the wall.
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> Regards
> brd
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> Bernard Robertson-Dunn
> Canberra Australia
> email:	 brd at iimetro.com.au
> website: www.drbrd.com
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