Data Center Track

The Data Center Track at NANOG 65 will build on a number of important data center themes. We will open with a presentation by Josh Rabina, Co-President of Sentinel Data Centers, entitled “Overbuilt & Overbought?: Current Trends in Data Center Provisioning”, who will explore the concepts of low vs. high resiliency deployments and stranded density. The main points of the presentation will include: 1. Low resiliency deployments - Exploring options for combined high and low density deployments and how low resiliency specification can lead to wildly variant performance levels. The data center industry should begin to focus more acutely on “mean time to repair” (MTTR) on a component by component level and adjust low resiliency designs accordingly. Examples will be provided of different reference designs, all “N”, but with very different MTTR implications. 2. Stranded density - How overprovisioning has been among the single largest cost factors impacting the industry (likely greater than the individual impact of rental pricing, power cost, PUE, etc.). How does a provider avoid over provisioning, while maintaining flexibility and managing existing stranded density? The presentation will be followed by a panel discussion around the presented topics exploring the advantages and disadvantages to customers. Participants on this panel will include Todd Schreiber, Director of Data Center Strategy, Architecture, and Software at Bloomberg LP, Jason van Gaal, CEO of ROOT Data Center, and Don Beaty, Founder of DLB Associates. Finally, we will have a series of four (4) 15 minute lightning talks as follows: Michel Chartier, Kelvin-Emtech - “Minimizing Environmental and Geo Risks in Site Selection” Jason van Gaal, ROOT Data Center - “Achieving Data Center Efficiency: A Practical Approach” Marc Pare, CloudOps - “Current State of Cloud in Canada” Gabe Cole, RTE Group - “Open-IX Data Center Standards - Future Initiatives” - See more at: https://www.nanog.org/meetings/nanog65/agenda#sthash.ece91w7j.dpuf

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