Overview

The Data Centre Maturity Model provides high-level guidance on the principles to embrace in order to achieve greater efficiency savings and meet sustainability requirements to achieve a “greener” operation. The Maturity Model is unique as it encompasses efficiency and sustainable improvements.

The levels range from Level 1 to Level 5 symbolizing efficiency and sustainability as a journey upon which an organisation must strategically decide to undertake and thereby invest in accordingly. Organisations should look to move through the different levels over time to improve their efficiency and environmental impact.

I would like to recognise the following individuals for their contribution to the Data Centre Maturity Model:

Steve O'Donnell - Managing Director EMEA - Enterprise Strategy Group

Nik Simpson - Senior Research Analyst - The Burton Group

David Ibarra - Project Director, Mission Critical Group - DPR Construction

Please download full model here – Data Centre Maturity Model

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Saturday 8 May 2010

Expanding the IT section

To date there has been very positive feedback on the Data Centre Efficiency Maturity Model.  I have further expanded the model to include all major energy consuming parts of a data centre.  IT energy consumption in a typical data centre tends to be 60% Servers, 25 - 30% Storage and 10-15% Network.   

I have extended the IT part of the model, which has now been split into Compute, Storage and Network.  Each area outlines a number of initiatives for an organisation to undertake in order to improve the efficiency and sustainability of their IT operation.
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