Data Center Handbook: Plan, Design, Build, and Operations of a Smart Data Center

by Hwaiyu Geng (Editor)

Overview

DATA CENTER HANDBOOK

Written by 59 experts and reviewed by a seasoned technical advisory board, the Data Center Handbook is a thoroughly revised, one-stop resource that clearly explains the fundamentals, advanced technologies, and best practices used in planning, designing, building and operating a mission-critical, energy-efficient, sustainable data center. This handbook, in its second edition, covers anatomy, ecosystem and taxonomy of data centers that enable the Internet of Things and artificial intelligent ecosystems and encompass the following:

SECTION 1: DATA CENTER OVERVIEW AND STRATEGIC PLANNING

• Megatrends, the IoT, artificial intelligence, 5G network, cloud and edge computing
• Strategic planning forces, location plan, and capacity planning
• Green design & construction guidelines and best practices
• Energy demand, conservation, and sustainability strategies
• Data center financial analysis & risk management

SECTION 2: DATA CENTER TECHNOLOGIES

• Software-defined environment
• Computing, storage, network resource management
• Wireless sensor networks in data centers
• ASHRAE data center guidelines
• Data center telecommunication cabling, BICSI and TIA 942
• Rack-level and server-level cooling
• Corrosion and contamination control
• Energy saving technologies and server design
• Microgrid and data centers

SECTION 3: DATA CENTER DESIGN & CONSTRUCTION

• Data center site selection
• Architecture design: rack floor plan and facility layout
• Mechanical design and cooling technologies
• Electrical design and UPS
• Fire protection
• Structural design
• Reliability engineering
• Computational fluid dynamics
• Project management

SECTION 4: DATA CENTER OPERATIONS TECHNOLOGIES

• Benchmarking metrics and assessment
• Data center infrastructure management
• Data center air management
• Disaster recovery and business continuity management

The Data Center Handbook: Plan, Design, Build, and Operations of a Smart Data Center belongs on the bookshelves of any professionals who work in, with, or around a data center.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781119597506
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	05/04/2021
Edition description:	2nd ed.
Pages:	752
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 10.90(h) x 1.40(d)

About the Author

Hwaiyu Geng P.E. (Palo Alto, California, USA) is the founder and managing director at AmicaResearch.org promoting green planning, designing, building and operating of high-tech projects. He has over four decades of planning, engineering and management experience having worked with Westinghouse, Applied Materials, Hewlett Packard, Intel and Juniper Networks. He is a frequent speaker at international conferences. Mr. Geng, a patent holder, is also the editor/author of the IoT and Data Analytics Handbook, Manufacturing Engineering Handbook (2nd edition), and Semiconductor Manufacturing Handbook (2nd edition).

Table of Contents

ABOUT THE EDITOR/AUTHOR ix

TAB MEMBERS xi

CONTRIBUTORS xiii

FOREWORDS xv

PREFACES xxi

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS xxv

PART I DATA CENTER OVERVIEW AND STRATEGIC PLANNING
(Chapter 1 - 7, Pages 1 - 127)

PART II DATA CENTER TECHNOLOGIES
(Chapter 8 - 21, Pages 143 - 359)

PART III DATA CENTER DESIGN & CONSTRUCTION
(Chapter 22 - 31, Pages 367 - 611)

PART IV DATA CENTER OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT
(Chapter 32 - 37, Pages 617 - 675)