Course description
The CDESS© course is aimed at providing knowledge of the standards and guidelines related to environmental sustainability, and how to move your data centre (existing or new) to a more environmentally sustainable design and operations.
Upcoming start dates
1 start date available
Outcome / Qualification etc.
After completion of the course the participant will be able to:
- Understand the impact of data centres on the environment
- Describe the various environmental/energy management standards
- Understand the purpose and goals of the legally binding international treaties on climate change
- Implement various sustainable performance metrics and how to use them in the data centre environment
- Manage data centre environmental sustainability using international standards
- Set up the measurement, monitoring and reporting of energy usage
- Use power efficiency indicators in a variety of data centre designs
- Use best practices for energy savings in the electrical infrastructure and in the mechanical (cooling) infrastructure
- Use best practices for energy savings for the ICT equipment and data storage
- Understand the importance of water management and waste management
- Understand the different ways to use sustainable energy in the data centre
- Get practical tips and innovative ideas to make a data centre more sustainable
Training Course Content
Impact of Data Centres on the Environment
- Predictions in 2010
- Current situation
- Outlook and commitments
What is Environmental Sustainability
- The importance of sustainability
- Senior management commitment
- Environmental sustainability framework
- Sustainability policies
- Performance standards and metrics
- Information policies
- Transparency
- Awareness
- Service charging models
Environmental Management
- Environmental sustainability framework (ISO 14001)
- Standards and guidelines ISO 50001 / ISO 30134
- Measurement and categories
- Baselining
- Trend analysis
- Reporting
Power Efficiency Indicators
- Various eðfficiency indicators
- Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE)
- PUE measurement levels
- Factors affecting PUE
- Measurement points and intervals
- PUE in mixed source environments
- Measuring PUE in a mixed-use building
- PUE reporting
- Impact of PUE after optimising IT load
Electrical Energy Savings (Electrical)
- Identifying the starting point for saving energy
- Sizing of power
- DC power
- Generators
- UPS systems
- Power Factor (PF)
- Energy savings on lighting
Electrical Energy Savings (Mechanical)
- Energy savings on the cooling infrastructure
- Temperature and humidity setpoints
- Various energy eðcient cooling technologies
- Energy savings on the airflow
- Liquid cooling
- Energy reusage
- PUE, ERE/ERF and Control Volume
Electrical Energy Savings (ICT)
- Procurement
- IT equipment energy eðfficiency
- ITEEsv, SMPE, SMPO
- IT equipment utilisation
- Server virtualisation
- Open compute project
Electrical Energy Savings (Data Storage)
- Data management
- Data storage management
- Data storage equipment effiðciency
Water Management
- Water Usage Effectiveness (WUE)
- Improving WUE
- Water usage at the power generation source
- Energy Water Intensity Factor (EWIF)
Waste Management
- Waste management policies
- Life-cycle assessment (Cradle to the grave)
- 3 Rs for waste management
- Reduce
- Reuse
- Second-hand market
- Recycle
Sustainable Energy Usage
- Sustainable energy sources
- Power purchase agreements
- Energy attribute certificates
- Renewable Energy Factor (REF)
- Matching renewable energy supply and demand
- Sustainable energy storage
- Carbon trading
Automated Environmental Management Systems
- Use of AI and machine learning
- Load migration
- Data Centre Infrastructure Management (DCIM) solutions
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Level 30, Leadenhall Building, 122 Leadenhall Street
EC3V 4AB London
Nexus Human
For over 20 years Nexus Human has specialised in IT and Business Skills Training and Certification in the UK and Ireland. What makes Nexus Human different is putting people at the core of what we do. We deliver both private...
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