Data Center/Server Room

What's Happening

  • Virtualization as a Service (VaaS) is available to campus. Use low cost virtual servers with enterprise class hardware in secured data centers in your unit to  yield significant cost savings with numerous benefits and features. Learn more…
  • Visit the Data Center/ Server Room Best Practices to greatly reduce energy consumption.
  • Thanks to the efforts of Planet Blue, energy usage measurements will be collected in data centers to realize the potential energy and cost savings of recommended best practices.

 

In 2006, U.S. data centers exhausted 61 billion kilowatt-hours1, the carbon equivalent of 8.54 million acres of pine or fir forests2. Improving the environmental practices in the Data Center/Server Room space is expected to be one of the biggest areas of opportunity on campus.

The U-M team began by compiling university-specific benchmark data on data center and server room locations on campus in order to project potential savings. The Data Center/Server Room Team has the difficult challenge of defining best practices for all campus data centers and server rooms. The goal is to measurably reduce energy consumption by these key locations.

What we do

  • Define best practices for green IT computing centers and server rooms
  • Recommend actions units can take to accomplish energy usage reduction by data centers and server rooms
  • Promote and support green IT procurement

Jim BujakiJim Bujaki, Team lead
Bujaki, assistant director of systems & technical planning for Information and Technology Services, believes CSCI @ U-M will slow the upward curve of energy consumption in data centers and server rooms and will make a measurable impact on campus. He has spent 7 years with Information and Technology Services, after working 10 years at Accenture.

Team Members

  • Richard Ake, Information and Technology Services
  • Louis Almashy, College of Literature, Science & Arts (LSA)
  • Dave Detlefs, Information and Technology Services
  • Gus Evrard, College of Literature, Science & Arts (LSA)
  • Rene Gobeyn, Information and Technology Services
  • Steve Gold, Information and Technology Services
  • Robert Johnson, College of Literature, Science & Arts (LSA)
  • Karl Lewis, Computer Aided Engineering Network (CAEN)
  • Mark Linsenman, Information and Technology Services
  • Martin Sager, Information and Technology Services
  • Mark Scott, Digital Media Commons, Duderstadt Center
  • MaryBeth Stuenkel, Information and Technology Services
  • Jack Underwood, Medical Center IT
  • Scott Wells, Plant Operations
  • Wayne Wilson, Medical School Administration

1 Environmental Protection Agency's data center report to Congress qtd. in Information Week
2 Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies Calculator – United States Environmental Protection Agency