FRAMEWORKC FOR SELECTING DATA CENTER

Committee members: Dr. Edward Chow (Advisor)

Dr. Jia Rao Dr. Kristen Walcott-Justice

Master Project Proposal

Ahmed Alharthi

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IntroductionProblem Description Related WorkResearch PlanMethodologies and technologyDeliverables

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Outline

Introduction

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•Location

•Analyze regions in Africa and the Middle East

•Elements in deciding the best location to build a data center

•Risk Factors

•Amazon EC2

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Amazon EC2 Global Infrastructure

Problem Description Lack of sufficient research and information

regarding Africa and the Middle East. Globalization movement Customers satisfactionLatency and power consumption

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Europe / Middle East / Africa

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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): 69-82. Qiu, Lili, Venkata N. Padmanabhan, and Geoffrey M. Voelker.

"On the placement of web server replicas." INFOCOM 2001. Twentieth Annual Joint Conference of the IEEE Computer and Communications Societies. Proceedings. IEEE. Vol. 3. IEEE, 2001.

Khan, Samee Ullah, Anthony A. Maciejewski, and Howard Jay Siegel. "Robust CDN replica placement techniques." Parallel & Distributed Processing, 2009. IPDPS 2009. IEEE International Symposium on. IEEE, 2009.

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Related Work

Two Factors : Natural disasters Workforce and business climateResearch 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.

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•Research Plan

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•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

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• 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 EC2Program to manage all the collected data

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