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FRAMEWORKC FOR SELECTING DATA CENTER. Master Project Proposal Ahmed Alharthi. Committee members: Dr. Edward Chow (Advisor) Dr. Jia Rao Dr. Kristen Walcott-Justice . Introduction Problem Description Related Work Research Plan Methodologies and technology Deliverables. Outline.
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FRAMEWORKC FOR SELECTING DATA CENTER Master Project Proposal Ahmed Alharthi Committee members: Dr. Edward Chow (Advisor) Dr. JiaRao Dr. Kristen Walcott-Justice
Introduction • Problem Description • Related Work • Research Plan • Methodologies and technology • Deliverables Outline
Introduction • Location • Analyze regions in Africa and the Middle East • Elements in deciding the best location to build a data center • Risk Factors • Amazon EC2
Lack of sufficient research and information regarding Africa and the Middle East. • Globalization movement • Customer satisfactions Problem Description
Best Example “ Colorado” • John Rath” Datacenterlinks” • Blackswanzine.com “ 250 articles” • Power requirements, location requirements, and safety • Linda K. Nozick, , Mark A. Turnquist [15] • The p-dispersion [16] Related Work
Two Factors : • Natural disasters • Workforce and business climate • Research will include: • Africa: Senegal, Guinea, Liberia, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Cameron, Congo, Angola, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Namibia, south Africa, Mozambique, Tanzania, Kenya, Somalia and Madagascar. • Middle East counties: Yemen, Oman, and Saudi Arabia. • Research Plan
Collecting data from the departments and government agencies. • Collecting data from previous research done within these countries. • Internet. • Analyzing and evolution these data • Methodologies and technology
Deliverables • Two written documents and a program • First : Include research about the countries listed. • Second : locations for setting up the data center for Amazon EC2 • Program to manage all the collected data