Net@EDU CCI Focus Group: Business Models for Data Centers

The purpose of this focus group is to explain to higher education administration leaders what are the consequences for not having a sustainable cyberinfrastructure (CI)/data center model for recovering costs and sharing data center resources. Many campuses have data centers that are inadequate for the rapidly increasing demands being placed on them. Lower costs for hardware, hotter electronics, and greater densities for rack mounted servers, especially in "cluster" configurations, combined with the increase in computing demands have led to a demand for more data center spaces. Data centers that are capable of supporting current and predicted heat and power demands are expensive facilities to build and maintain. Justifying investments in this area may be difficult.

The focus group recently completed a white paper, "Campus Cyberinfrastructure and Data Centers" [available online soon], providing recommendations on how CIOs can develop business models and proposals, in terms of Cyberinfrastructure, for the development in the next generation of data centers and how to approach a data center project.

Contacts

Paul Killey, Focus Group Chair
Executive Director of IT, CoE
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
Guy Almes
Director, Academy for Advanced Telecommunications & Learning Technologies
Texas A&M University
Jim Pepin
Chief Technology Officer
Clemson University
Dallas Thornton
IT Director, San Diego Supercomputer Center
University of California, San Diego

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