Strategic Planning, Datacenter Design, Construction Planning, and Operations:

The first and foremost important step is to plan for every aspect of the datacenter right from strategy till operation and management. Following points should be taken into consideration:

•   Overview of the datacenter
•   Strategic planning which include motivation, need and identify stakeholder
•   Plan for energy requirement and sustainability in datacenters
•   Plan for hosting.
•   Site selection and consideration like dimension, future expansion etc.
•   Consideration for modular datacenters which include its design, deployment, and other considerations
•   Datacenter financial analysis: ROI (Return on investment) and TCO (Total cost of ownership)

Following should be properly planned and executed:

Following should be properly planned and executed:

•   Architecture design: datacenter rack floor plan and facility layout design
•   Mechanical design in datacenters
•   Electrical design in datacenters
•   Fire protection and life safety design in datacenters
•   Structural design in datacenters: Natural disaster resilience
•   Datacenter telecommunications cabling
•   Dependability engineering for datacenter infrastructures
•   Particulate and gaseous contamination in datacenters
•   Computational fluid dynamics applications in datacenters
•   Environmental control of datacenters

Data Center Technology:

Following technology should be taken into consideration for high efficient datacenter:

•   Virtualization, Cloud, SDN, and SDDC in datacenters
•   Green microprocessor and server
•   Energy efficiency requirements in IT equipment
•   Technological decision: Raised floor versus overhead cooling in datacenters
•   Free cooling technologies in datacenters
•   Rack-level cooling and cold plate cooling
•   Uninterruptible power supply system
•   Using direct current network in datacenters
•   Rack PDU for green datacenters
•   Renewable and clean energy for datacenters
•   Smart grid for responsive datacenters

Datacenter operations and management:

Once datacenter is construction it is very important to have an automated, cost efficient operation and management.

•   Datacenter benchmark metrics definition and measurement
•   Datacenter infrastructure management
•   Computerized maintenance management system in datacenters

Disaster recovery and business continuity

•   Datacenter disaster recovery and high availability