[ripe-chair-discuss] RIPE Data Center Working Group
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Yousef Naimi
u3fnmir at gmail.com
Fri Aug 31 16:30:45 CEST 2018
Thanks, I'll check it out! On Thu, Aug 30, 2018 at 7:00 PM Leslie <geekgirl at gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Yousef - > > This email list is actually used for discussing how we will select a > future RIPE chair. > > Your idea for a bof sounds great - and you can submit your bof > proposal here - https://ripe77.ripe.net/submit-topic/cfp/ > > I hope to see you at RIPE77! > Leslie Carr > Programme Committee > > On Thu, Aug 30, 2018 at 5:55 AM Yousef Naimi <u3fnmir at gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Dear RIPE chair, > > > > Hello > > > > I am planning to send this to the RIPE List but thought to check with > you first. Please kindly let me know if you have any reservations or > comments. > > > > > > My name is Yousef Naimi, Data Center Manager of Asiatech (AS43754). > > > > As an engineer who has been in IT industry for over 10 years, I was > wondering why the RIPE doesn’t have a separate working group for Data > Center Management and Issues. > > > > After having a cheking how to move forward with this idea with RIPE NCC > staff at MENOG 18, I learned how the process for having a BoF works and > here is my request to have one at RIPE 77. > > > > > > At first, it may look that the Data Center WG has might overlap with > other WGs like connect, but there are lot of issues related to the data > center world that RIPE does not cover in its current WGs. > > > > Here are some examples: > > > > • Automation and SDN, we need to discuss the road towards > software-defined data centers as well as the way we incorporate automation > and AI into our operations for optimal efficiency and transparency in > real-time. How awesome that would be to share ideas about how can AI > improve uptime and efficiency in data centers? What are the various AI > applications available to improve our data system? (EPMS, DCIM, BCMs, BMS) > > > > • Data Center Architecture and emerging networks, there are lots of > organizations/teams which are working on data center policies and network > architectures in order to meet increasing demands of growing > contents/applications. Some of these orgs are as: > > > > ü http://www.datacenterdynamics.com/ > > > > ü https://tmt.knect365.com/data-center-world/ > > > > > > > > The proposed WG can compile and act as a bridge between these venues and > RIPE: > > > > • Data Center policies towards content, after all these years of > centralization and decentralization of contents all over the world, > governments are more concerned about reducing their budgets on > building/maintaining data centers by integrating and merging several data > centers into fewer ones. The project FDCCI (Federal Data Center > Consolidation Initiative) in USA and similar projects in other countries > shows how important this matter is. On the other hand, how we can identify > the early signs that offloading some of our data congestion to the edge > will be necessary? What kind of data should be taken to the edge and what > are the latest applications and use cases for edge deployments? > > > > • Data Center Services pricing, we are still in the middle of the > challenge that whether the data center owner has to charge content owners > or if the content owner has to charge the end user for using its content in > order to make the deal fair for all sides. However, we all are aware of > pricing Colocation service or dedicated server or IXP > interconnection/cross-connection services, but talking about new > cloud-based services, we have not much clear method to distinguish > costs/benefits of IaaS/SaaS/PaaS services. That would be awesome if we > could share best practices from economical point of view. > > > > > > > > So, my question is what others think about this? Should we have a BoF at > RIPE 77 in Amsterdam and explore this further? If there is support for the > BoF, then we can see how it goes and possible propose formation of a new WG. > > > > I’d appreciate if I get opinion of others on this. > > > > > > Best Regards > > Yousef Naimi > -- Yousef Naimi Network/Security Engineer CCNP R&S CCNP Security -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://lists.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/ripe-chair-discuss/attachments/20180831/eec7c7cd/attachment.html>
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