UNSW’s Oxymoron - The Green Data Centre
Sustainable data centre. Tick. Consolidation, virtualisation, switching, passive, cooling, power and green. Tick, tick, tick. Data Centre 3.0. Tick. Green data centre. Bingo!
We have heard all the buzzwords and played buzzword bingo through every vendors products and presentations. UNSW's oxymoron - the green data centre - went live in July 2010 and is arguably one of the most modern data centres in Australia. It should be - it is only 12 months old. Join us while we run through the express tour of an almost green fields deployment that challenged all facets of the data centre design, the decisions, the solutions and the lessons learnt. The end result was an efficient high density data centre to take UNSW beyond 2020.
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Greg Sawyer's Biography
Greg Sawyer is currently the Manager Communication Services at the University of New South Wales responsible for all voice, data and passive infrastructure. Apparently he also responsible for ensuring the staff work harder and smarter in 2011. In 2012 they also get to work longer. Greg has over 20 years experience in Communications with IT with UNSW and the Royal Australian Corp of Signals in the Army. Greg’s 11 years in the Army included active service with the United Nations in Cambodia enjoying the rich cultural heritage, gaining an appreciation for spicy food and learning how to speak Cambodian poorly, all while providing a Communications network in a country with no running water, power and ongoing combat. He has recently enjoyed the quiet life building a house, completing a Masters and participating in a Telecommunications tender. In his spare time he spends 4 hours per day enjoying Sydney’s public transport system. |
