Data Center Handbook

Data Center Handbook provides the fundamentals, technologies, and best practices in designing, constructing and managing mission critical, energy efficient data centers. * The most comprehensive single source guide ever published in this field, with 36 chapters and over 350 illustrations written by 50 world class authors * Offers disaster management techniques and lessons learned from 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan, and 2012 Superstorm Sandy * Discusses international standards and requirements, with contributions from experts in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, France, Sweden, Japan, Korea, and China

Table of Contents

Part I Data Center Overview and Strategic Planing
Chapter 1 Data Centers—Strategic Planning, Design, Construction, and Operations
Chapter 2 Energy and Sustainability in Data Centers
Chapter 3 Hosting or Colocation Data Centers:
Chapter 4 Modular Data Centers: Design, Deployment, and Other Considerations
Chapter 5 Data Center Site Search and Selection
Chapter 6 Data Center Financial Analysis, ROI and TCO
Chapter 7 Overview of Data Centers in China
Chapter 8 Overview of Data Centers in Korea

Part II Data Center Design and Construction
Chapter 9 Architecture Design: Data Center Rack Floor Plan and Facility Layout Design
Chapter 10 Mechanical Design in Data Centers
Chapter 11 Electrical Design in Data Centers
Chapter 12 Fire Protection and Life Safety Design in Data Centers
Chapter 13 Structural Design in Data Centers: Natural Disaster Resilience
Chapter 14 Data Center Telecommunications Cabling
Chapter 15 Dependability Engineering for Data Center Infrastructures
Chapter 16 Particulate and Gaseous Contamination in Data Centers
Chapter 17 Computational Fluid Dynamics Applications in Data Centers
Chapter 18 Environmental Control of Data Centers
Chapter 19 Data Center Project Management and Commissioning

Part III Data Center Technology
Chapter 20 Virtualization, Cloud, SDN, and SDDC in Data Centers
Chapter 21 Green Microprocessor and Server Design
Chapter 22 Energy Efficiency Requirements in Information Technology Equipment Design
Chapter 23 Raised Floor versus Overhead Cooling in Data Centers
Chapter 24 Hot Aisle versus Cold Aisle Containment
Chapter 25 Free Cooling Technologies in Data Centers
Chapter 26 Rack-Level Cooling and Cold Plate Cooling
Chapter 27 Uninterruptible Power Supply System
Chapter 28 Using Direct Current Network in Data Centers
Chapter 29 Rack PDU for Green Data Centers
Chapter 30 Renewable and Clean Energy for Data Centers
Chapter 31 Smart Grid-Responsive Data Centers

Part IV Data Center Operations and Management
Chapter 32 Data Center Benchmark Metrics
Chapter 33 Data Center Infrastructure Management
Chapter 34 Computerized Maintenance Management System in Data Centers

Part V Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity
Chapter 35 Data Center Disaster Recovery and High Availability
Chapter 36 Lessons Learned from Natural Disasters and Preparedness of Data Centers