ISO/IEC CD TS 8236-1

Information technology — Provisioning, forecasting and management — Part 1: Data Centre IT Equipment

Scope

Standardized method of optimizing IT provisioning within data centres by utilizing KPI’s that enable the development of IT profiles for individual systems or platforms. The combination of the system and platform KPI’s are used to establish an IT provisioning profile, establishing standard forecasting methods to optimize data centre resource effectiveness.
In-Scope:
- Method for benchmarking and trending IT provisioning
- Capability assessment/indicators of IT equipment over infrastructure life-cycle including preparatory, commissioning, expansion/contraction and/or retirement of IT equipment
Excluded:
- IT equipment energy efficiency for servers (covered by ISO/IEC JTC 1 / SC 39 / WG 1 / 30134-4)
- IT equipment utilization for servers (covered by ISO/IEC JTC 1 / SC 39 / WG 1 / 30134-5)
- Application platform energy effectiveness (covered by ISO/IEC JTC 1 / SC 39 / WG 1 / 23544)
- Data Centre facilities and infrastructures (covered by ISO/IEC JTC1 / SC39 / WG 3 / 22237.x)