[kictanet] Kenya IGF 2011 List Discussions Day 4 Cloud Computing

[Lucy Kimani]

Mwendwa,
Here is my detailed response from this morning....
In addition to Server Virtualization to reduce today’s datacenter footprint which I mentioned earlier, in order to improve operational efficiency data center computer room air handling units can be architected in a perimeter raised floor cooling approach as a cooling solution as is evidenced in the white paper by the Green Grid who have managed to prove that there is a case to be made for energy efficient data centers.
http://www.thegreengrid.org/~/media/WhitePapers/CaseStudyTheROIofCoolingSystemEnergyEfficiencyUpgrades_Final.pdf?lang=en
Also check out their paper on An Analysis of Server Virtualization Utility Incentives (2011 Technical Forum) 
http://www.thegreengrid.org/en/Global/Content/white-papers/ServerVirtualizationForUtilities
Well for those that wanted to know why Google?  I would hazard a guess that perhaps one of the considerations was the fact that Google’s Green Data Centers have implemented a variety of practices to ensure that  their data centers are running efficiently using only half the energy of a typical data center, not to mention their data protection pracices, but I am not in the know so mine is just an asumption.
http://www.google.com/corporate/datacenter/best-practices.html
LK

--- On Tue, 7/5/11, Lucy Kimani <lkimani at yahoo.com> wrote:


From: Lucy Kimani <lkimani at yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [kictanet] Kenya IGF 2011 List Discussions Day 4 Cloud Computing
To: "lordmwesh" <lordmwesh at gmail.com>
Cc: "KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions" <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>
Date: Tuesday, July 5, 2011, 7:51 AM



Mwendwa,


Today's data centers can greatly reduce their footprint by using various technologies like VMWare to reduce no of servers etc 
Traveling will more later.
Lucy 

 

On Jul 5, 2011, at 5:22 AM, lordmwesh <lordmwesh at gmail.com> wrote:




1. Is Kenya government cloud computing hosted in Kenya or it is hosted in the West?
2. How can we compete with giant server farms in US and Europe if our power costs is very high? A single server farm in the US of 450,00 servers can consume in the region of 20megawatts of power. With Kengen having a capacity of 700MW, can we cope with such huge demand? Can we even afford the cost of the power bearing in mind the huge cost!
3. Germany is moving out of nuclear energy by 2022, then they will graduate to other affordable renewable energy. Is it time for Kenya to invested in nuclear energy to reach mid level economic status? That way, we will reduce the cost of energy, while growing the economy.

Mwendwa
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