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Certified Data Centre Environmental Sustainability Specialist (CDESS)

Certified Data Centre Environmental Sustainability Specialist (CDESS)

By Nexus Human

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Highlights

  • Delivered Online

  • 6 days

  • All levels

Description

Duration

5 Days

30 CPD hours

This course is intended for

The primary audience for this course is any IT, facilities or data centre professional who works in and around the data centre and has the responsibility to achieve and improve efficiency and environmental sustainability, whilst maintaining the availability and manageability of the data centre.

Overview

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

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.

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 Effiðciency 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 R?s 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

Dates

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About The Provider

Nexus Human

Nexus Human, established over 20 years ago, stands as a pillar of excellence in the realm of IT and Business Skills Training and education in Ireland and the UK....

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