Vice President
Data Center Facilities
CH Design and Planning
Credit Suisse AG, Switzerland

 

 

Tuesday, 14 December 2010 (14:00-14h30), EPFL Polydôme

How to bring legacy data center infrastructure to cope with today's power , cooling and space requirements?

Today’s data center is in constant change. Applications, as well as the IT equipment and infrastructure that support them, are required to continually evolve to better meet the business needs of the bank. Therefore, the initial design of the data center is obsolete the day after the installation and commissioning is complete. The designed (static) versus actual (dynamic) nature of a data center must be considered. Also the fact that legacy IT Installations running side by side with today and tomorrow’s (yet unknown) state-of-the-art server, storage and network designs.(eg. Converged Ethernet).

I will present what Credit Suisse does with its 13'000 m2 of data center IT equipment space, to keep up with the forever changing server and cooling technologies. A practical experience, no theories. Also why energy, cooling, virtualization and lifecycle efficiency is the only way the banking data center can survive space issues. Reason for this growth are the still increasing requirements from the business for new services that usually end up in installing new servers and storage using the latest IT technologies. 

 

About the speaker:

After an apprenticeship as an electronic technician, Marcel Ledergerber joined the IT department at the Schweizerischen Kreditanstalt in 1972 where he maintained the first IBM mainframes and storage devices. In 1979, he joined Amdahl, the first and last competition to IBM mainframes, where he worked as an IT Specialist, supporting mainframes across Europe. He also worked in support centers in England and the engineering departments in Sunnyvale, California. In 2001, Marcel Ledergerber moved to Credit Suisse, and since 2003 he is responsible for the fit out of the data center infrastructure in Switzerland.