FRAMEWORKC FOR SELECTING DATA CENTER Committee members: Dr. Edward Chow (Advisor) Dr. Jia Rao Dr. Kristen Walcott-Justice Master Project Proposal Ahmed Alharthi 1/30/2014 Spring 2014
Introduction Problem Description Related Work Research Plan Methodologies and technology Deliverables 1/30/2014 Spring 2014 Outline
Introduction 1/30/2014 Spring 2014 Location Analyze regions in Africa and the Middle East Elements in deciding the best location to build a data center Risk Factors Amazon EC2
1/30/2014 Spring 2014 Amazon EC2 Global Infrastructure
Problem Description Lack of sufficient research and information regarding Africa and the Middle East. Globalization movement Customers satisfaction Latency and power consumption 1/30/2014 Spring 2014
Europe / Middle East / Africa
1/30/2014 Spring 2014 Europe / Middle East / Africa
Best Example “ Colorado” John Rath” Datacenterlinks” Blackswanzine.com “ 250 articles” Power requirements, location requirements, and safety. Linda K. Nozick,, Mark A. Turnquist TSuzuki, Atsuo, and Zvi Drezner. "Thep-center location problem in an area." Location science 4.1 (1996): Qiu, Lili, Venkata N. Padmanabhan, and Geoffrey M. Voelker. "On the placement of web server replicas." INFOCOM Twentieth Annual Joint Conference of the IEEE Computer and Communications Societies. Proceedings. IEEE. Vol. 3. IEEE, Khan, Samee Ullah, Anthony A. Maciejewski, and Howard Jay Siegel. "Robust CDN replica placement techniques." Parallel & Distributed Processing, IPDPS IEEE International Symposium on. IEEE, /30/2014 Spring 2014 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. 1/30/2014 Spring 2014 Research Plan
1/30/2014 Spring 2014 Marine cables
Collecting data from the departments and government agencies. Collecting data from previous research done within these countries. Internet. Analyzing and evolution these data 1/30/2014 Spring 2014 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 1/30/2014 Spring 2014