Sustainable and Scalable Capacity Planning: Using Flexibility to Cope with Massive Uncertainty
Presenter: Dr. Max Henrion, Chief Executive Officer, Lumina Decision SystemsTuesday, May 18
3:20-3:50 pm, Morgan
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Data center capacity planners must grapple with major uncertainties: How rapidly will demand increase for computing cycles, storage, and bandwidth? Will server performance continue to improve according to Moore's Law? Each of these uncertainties affects our sizing decisions; the number of servers, cooling and power capacity, and even the building footprint. The best way to cope with such uncertainty is to preserve flexibility as far as possible. We will show how flexible, capacity planning strategies can reduce TCO and lifecycle energy use in the face of large uncertainties, using Lumina's Analytica Datacenter Capacity Planning Tool (ADCAPT), on a range of typical data center scenarios.