...The Cost Center That Paid Its Way Eric Palmer is the head of Camden Robotics marketing communications department. He was asked by the CEO, Tom O’Reilly, to turn his department from a cost center into a profit center. Eric has a full team of professionals, some of which are very expensive but he doesn’t end up losing any of them. He simply has to start making a profit or Tom O’Reilly may cut costs in the marketing communications department. Eric starts off great. There are a few customers that are angry, like Andrea Torres, who called to ask why she received a bill for $75,000? And another complaint came from Amanda Black, whose client is Walston Scientific, a competitor of Pandemix. Pandemix received help from Eric on some marketing materials. Walston Scientific wasn’t too pleased. However, Eric is starting to make money, so Tom is pleased and feels like he is mentoring Eric. Everyone was angry about Eric’s approach except Tom. No one could understand why Tom couldn’t see that this idea just wasn’t working. A meeting came up and that’s when Tom finally saw some things he didn’t like. The accounting department gave Tom some numbers and it showed that Eric had undercharged a customer. Numerous complaints had reached Tom by that time so this was the last straw. He decided to have a meeting with Eric to discuss some of these issues. In the meeting Tom brought up some of his reservations. Eric seemed to brush over them and tell him what a great job he was doing. He...
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...dialysis center should not suffer all the cost. Moving the dialysis center makes more sense because they can increase their revenue if they could take on more patients. The Outpatient Clinic increased their capacity thus should pay the costs of this consumption of the usage of 25% increase. Question 2 Yes. they should be charged the actual cost of the new facility because they are using the new facility. They were spending $300,000 allocating 20,000 square feet. Now they are spending $100,000 extra for an entire building. The outpatient clinic assumed the additional cost for the expansion of space they will be using as well. All departments’ costs would increase since the dialysis center is out of the building and not sharing the indirect costs for the facility use and other general indirect costs. Question 3 No, this only designates the money for the building and facility itself others costs. This is not including inflation, depreciation, insurance, and other fees. There are also advantages of the new building which includes the parking structure and easy access ability, newer equipment and facility therefore less maintenance required. Even though the building has a useful life over 20 years. On the 21st year it will be mortgage free however there still be other general indirect costs that makes up $270,000 of costs as well, these costs will only increase due to inflation and cost increase. Question 4 The revenue the pharmacy is making from the dialysis center is 100%...
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...Outsourcing IT Services for Data Center Consolidation | Applied Research Project | | IS535 | | 6/10/2011 | | Executive Summary Outsourcing IT Services for Data Center Consolidation California Natural Resource Agency’s Best Option for the Consolidation Project into Department of Water Resources Tier III-Equivalent Data Center The Department of Water Resources for the state of California is responsible for managing “the water resources of California in cooperation with other agencies, to benefit the State's people, and to protect, restore, and enhance the natural and human environments.” (http://www.water.ca.gov/about/mission.cfm) In late 2009 the Department of Water Resources (DWR) launched a multi-million dollar project to build a modernized IT infrastructure that is to house several of the California Natural Resources Agency’s (CNRA) commissions and conservatories. This project would make DWR a certified tier III data center. There are only four tier III data centers currently operating in California. The project was broken into two phases; the first was the build-out of the IT infrastructure, and the second phase is the migration and consolidation of the various agencies computer rooms and data centers. The first phase was completed in early 2011 and consisted of: * Better performance. New servers boost performance of key business solutions and applications by up to four times while enabling system engineers to keep computer intensive...
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...CAse Study REPORT PUE DATA CENTER EFFICIENCY MEASUREMENT Introduction One of the metrics used for measuring datacenter efficiency is Power Usage Effectiveness, or PUE. PUE compares the power consumption for the entire facility with the power consumed by the core IT components—servers, storage and network equipment. This ratio illustrates how effectively the power being consumed translates into net compute capacity. Mathematically, the calculation is straightforward: For example, if one watt is being consumed by the servers and one watt is being consumed for the supporting cooling, power back up and other administrative use, the ratio would be 2.0—which is where most datacenters operate. The theoretical ideal PUE is 1.0, where the only energy consumed is for computation. The value of this metric is that it focuses on the non-value added use of power, which in a datacenter is anything that doesn’t compute or store information. PUE = Total Facility Power/ IT Equipment Power Below is an Example to calculate the PUE: Having a facility that uses 100,000 kW of total power of which 80,000 kW is used to power your IT equipment, would generate a PUE of 1.25. The 100,000 kW of total facility power divided by the 80,000 kW of IT power Total Facility Power is defined to be “power as measured at the utility meter”. IT Equipment Power is defined as “the load associated with all of the IT equipment”...
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...Order processing Order processing is a key element of Order fulfillment. Order processing operations or facilities are commonly called "distribution centers". "Order processing" is the term generally used to describe the process or the work flow associated with the picking, packing and delivery of the packed item(s) to a shipping carrier. The specific "order fulfillment process" or the operational procedures of distribution centers are determined by many factors. Each distribution center has its own unique requirements or priorities. There is no "one size fits all" process that universally provides the most efficient operation. Some of the factors that determine the specific process flow of a distribution center are: * The nature of the shipped product - shipping eggs and shipping shirts can require differing fulfillment processes * The nature of the orders - the number of differing items and quantities of each item in orders * The nature of the shipping packaging - cases, totes, envelopes, pallets can create process variations * Shipping costs - consolidation of orders, shipping pre-sort can change processing operations * Availability and cost and productivity of workforce - can create trade-off decisions in automation and manual processing operations * Timeliness of shipment windows - when shipments need to be completed based on carriers can create processing variations * Availability of capital expenditure dollars - influence on manual verses automated...
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...connect the driver with the truck. GPS built into the unit to help drivers locate delivery and pickup locations. Color screen for customer to read shipping documents. 2. Write out the steps a package takes from pick-up by a UPS driver to delivery including the role of DIAD, the UPS Data Center, and the UPS Package Center. • Smart label created • Information sent to processing center • Information processed—stored, address corrected • Information matched to dispatch plan • Package is sorted • Another label is printed specifying delivery truck and position on truck • Geo software used to continuously update dispatch plans for trucks based on current load • Information is displayed on the DIAD IV identifying drop off order, position on truck • At delivery, package scanned. Information sent wirelessly to processing center • Customers sign on the dotted line on the DIAD IV. • Main processing centers store complete track of package for customer tracking 3. What role does wireless communication play in the UPS systems? DIAD IV is wirelessly connected to the main processing centers and the package centers. Generally UPS trucks contain a transceiver to work with the local driver's DIAD...
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...social problems does data center power consumption cause? Data center power consumption economically affects businesses and environmentally affects society. Operating costs for data centers is very expensive. In the article, "Ubiquitous Green Computing Techniques for High Demand Applications in Smart Environments," the total operating costs, concerning electricity, of all data centers within the U.S. alone exceeded 7 billion dollars in 2010 (Ayala, J., Moya, J., Risco-Martín, J., Sanchez, C., Zapater, M. 2012). The article then explains that data centers consumed 61 billion kilowatt-hours in 2006;the Environmental Protection Agency provided this statistic to the US Congress in a report from 2007 (Ayala, J., Moya, J., Risco-Martín, J., Sanchez, C., Zapater, M. 2012). With this amount of energy being consumed by data centers, it is a cause for concern; consequently, data centers have an impact on the cost of business and negatively impact the environment via carbon footprint. As the carbon footprint grows, there is a need to realign the way businesses looks at managing their data centers. Several companies including Cisco, Dell, Google, HP, IBM, and Intel have announced efforts to reduce the environmental footprint of their product offerings (Chang et al., 2012). Large technology companies are starting to understand that being environmentally friendly is good for the wallet and good public relations. Understanding how to manage and build better data centers with a green foot print...
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...inexpensive, efficient and rapid cluster deployment. Table of Contents What is Bitcoin Mining? ..................................................................................................................... 3 Industrial-Scale Bitcoin Mining of Today ............................................................................................ 3 Example #1: Cointerra TerraMiner IV Mining Cluster ...................................................................... 4 Example #2: ASICMiner Gen3 - Most Efficient Next-Gen Cluster..................................................... 4 Challenges of Industrial Mining .......................................................................................................... 5 Data Center Mining ........................................................................................................................ 5 Purpose Built Large-Scale Mining Facilities ................................................................................... 6 KnC Miner 10MW Facility 14,500m² (156,000 sq ft) .................................................................. 6 MegaBigPower 1.4MW Mine 1900m² (20,000 sq ft) .................................................................. 6 ASICMiner 500kW Immersion Cooling 30m² (300 sq ft).............................................................. 7 250kW IceDrill Mine ....................................................................................................................
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...Seacoast Science Center (SSC) Class Preparation Questions/Activities Perform a General/Marco Environmental Analysis as it relates to SSC. P-The New Hampshire Parks Department and IBM give grant money annually to the Seacoast science Center. E-As the internet grows and the amount of money will spend on luxury activities dwindles , the Seacoast science center must deal with declining numbers of museum goers. S-Science related attractions have recently been declining in interest amongst the general population as sports and ambiguous entertainment grow . T-A lot of research has been done and seems to be plateauing , plus there is only so much money that states and lenders will give to update technology that only analyzes science not just progression in it. E-The science center seems to not be leaving that big of a carbon footprint. L-The increasing sea level is beginning to remove some of the nearby beach from the center’s property. Not many regulations have been put on the science center. Perform a Porter’s 5 Forces Industry Analysis as it relates to SSC. (Note: The amount of information you have about the different forces varies tremendously. Also, many not-for-profits like SSC have two customer groups, as Visitors and Donors can both be considered customers. Take this into account as you do your analysis.) Threat of New Entrants: (Low) The seacoast Science center is specific to the region of new hampshire. Anything within a 50 mile radius...
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...Is green computing good for business? As more computing powers are required more electricity is needed. The table below shows the annual cost of electricity for data center servers Year 2000 Year 2007 US $1.3 billion $2.7 billion World Wide $ 3.2 billion $ 7.2 billion Gartner group consultants believe that energy bills, which traditionally account for 10 percent of information technology budgets, could soon account for more than 50 percent. The heat generated from computer rooms is causing equipment to fail. Companies spend as much money to cool the rooms as they spend to power it. Some big companies are facing their power consumption issues looking into environment and saving money. Google, Microsoft, and HSBC are all building data centers that will take advantage of hydroelectric power. For example one Microsoft data center deploys sensors that measure nearly all power consumption, recycles water used in cooling, and use internally-developed power management software. PCs typically stay on more than twice the amount of time they are actually being used each day. One reports claims a 10,000 PCs will cost $165,000 annually in electricity bills if these machines are left on all night. It is believe that about $1.7 billion is wasted each year. Few companies developed PC power management software that locks power settings and automatically powers PCs up right before employees arrive at work. For example one school cut the time its PCs were on from 21 hours to 10...
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...1.How would you describe the goal(s) of the company as a whole? Is this, or are these, the same as the goal(s) of the company’s marketing organization and the company’s 25 managers of manufacturing plants? Explain. Ans. The main objective of the company is to increase profitability and achieve high growth. The company is striving hard to achieve cost effectiveness and achieve high level of quality. Now, the goals of the company’s marketing organization and company’s 25 managers of manufacturing plant are different. The marketing division is treated as a “Revenue Centre” so the goal of the company’s marketing organization is to maximize revenue and sell what is produced. They are evaluated on the basis of meeting the set sale unit and sales dollar targets. Also, they are responsible for making demand forecasts which are used to decide the production levels of each plant. Whereas, the manufacturing plant have the goal to just meet the budget figure and fulfill the quota allocated to each plant. Since they are considered as an expense center and there is no immediate monetary reward to compensate for increase in responsibilities or requirements, they are not concerned to achieve higher efficiency and thus, want to exceed the targets. 2.Evaluate the current management planning and control system for the manufacturing plants and the marketing departments. What are the strengths and weaknesses? Ans. By 1989, the company was one of the world’s largest cloth manufacturer. Following...
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...important place to start when considering how to reduce data center power consumption? What value of PUE should data center managers strive for? Is the total amount of energy that is used by a computer data center facility and to the energy delivered to any computing equipment. By applying this, not just you make actual savings but you make a positive environmental impact. By following up with the total amount of energy that being consumed you will have more control of how much is spent and how to reduce the consumption by applying new methods. 2. Describe the five methods recommended by Google for reducing power consumption. 1. Measure pie 2. Manage airflow 3. Adjust Thermostat 4. Utilize Free Cooling 5. Optimize Power Distribution 3. How much of the world’s global greenhouse gases are the result of computing? List several factors that will tend to retard or accelerate data center power consumption both globally and in the United States. The total amount of global greenhouse gases is 2%. Factors that can accelerate the global greenhouse gases: * Cloud computing * Advancements in IT * Audio and Video streaming Factors that can reduce the global greenhouse gases: * Create a virtual rather than an actual version of something also known 1as virtualization. * Air management * Distributing data center worldwide * The use of chillers 4. Where do you suspect that data-center power consumption will be greatest: developing and emerging...
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...Experience Infrastructure (VXI) Reference Architecture October 5, 2010 What You Will Learn Enterprise IT departments are pressured to control costs, improve manageability, enhance security, and speed-up the deployment of new capabilities while supporting a consistent user experience across diverse endpoints. Desktop virtualization (DV) has become a popular solution for addressing these needs. With hosted DV, the end-user’s desktop experience (operating system, applications, and associated data) is abstracted from the physical endpoint and centralized. The user’s desktop image is hosted as a virtual machine on a data center server. Users can access hosted virtual desktops from anywhere through DV appliances, smart phones, tablet computers, laptop and desktop computers, and other clients. Organizations deploying DV face many challenges, as the DV technologies potentially affect the entire IT infrastructure. To address these challenges, Cisco has developed Cisco® Virtualization Experience Infrastructure (VXI), a comprehensive architecture for desktop virtualization. Cisco VXI, which uses three existing Cisco architectures, includes designs for virtualized data centers, virtualization-aware borderless networks, and virtualized workspaces, and the critical services needed to support these architectures. Cisco VXI reduces the total cost of ownership (TCO), streamlines operations, simplifies management, and positions organizations for growth. This document describes the major elements...
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...Title | CEO | Phone number | 339-505-2600 | Fax number | 339-505-2501 | E-mail address | bobsmith@smithserv.com | Solution group | Under Investigation | Solution offering | Data Center | Project name or title | Present potential vendor choice | Customer Profile Industry | Marketing | Annual revenue | $2 Billion | Contact name | Renee Bonds | Title | CIO | Phone number | 832-505-2600 | Fax number | 832-505-2501 | E-mail address | reneebonds@hotmail.com | Analysis Analysis prepared for Smith’s Information Services, Inc. Company Profile Smith’s Information Services, Inc. is among the leaders in data collection of consumer information. Headquartered in Lexington, Massachusetts – Smith’s has as impeccable record in providing the stabilization of consumer data. * Annual Sales: $2 billion * Primary Line of Business: Sales in Consumer Information * * Management Directory: * Bob Smith: Chief Executive Officer * Renee Bonds: Chief Information Officer * Business Situation (Purpose) Bob Smith, the CEO of Smith’s Information Services, Inc., is gathering information in hopes to secure an outside option for a new data center. This would be due to the midst of a corporate overhead reduction program at Smith’s. As a result the rising costs of operations and...
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...is selling branded products at low cost with large volume by improving their operation management system, utilize their buying power to lower the price from their vendors. The second strategy is to use “saturation” strategy for store expansion and further expansion to worldwide. The third strategy is Wal-Mart’s commitment to customers; always provide excellent service to their customers to make their customers always feel that Wal-Mart is very accountable and friendly. The fourth strategy is respect for the individuals, which Wal-Mart treads their employees well and push them to excel in what they do to increase employees’ loyalty and dedication. 1-2. What is the basis on which Wal-Mart builds its competitive advantage? Answer: The fundamental basis is lowering the cost as much as possible. Wal-Mart has implemented the world most effective operation management system to reduce its cost on operation management, such like: 1. Reducing warehouse storage cost by utilizing RFID technologies, just-in-time method. 2. Reducing products distributions cost by carefully select the distribution center locations and store locations, and building up self owned world largest tracking networks. 3. Increase the efficiency of communication and information sharing by building up satellite communication channels and real-time information system, which allow the information to be shared between the company’s wide network stores, distribution centers and suppliers. With Wal-Mart huge...
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