Manuel Mora – författare

This edited volume covers essential and recent development in the engineering and management of data centers.  Data centers are complex systems requiring ongoing support, and their high value for keeping business continuity operations is crucial. The book presents core topics on the planning, design, implementation, operation and control, and sustainability of a data center from a didactical and practitioner viewpoint. Chapters include:

·         Foundations of data centers: Key Concepts and Taxonomies

·         ITSDM: A Methodology for IT Services Design

·         Managing Risks on Data Centers through Dashboards

·         Risk Analysis in Data Center Disaster Recovery Plans

·         Best practices in Data Center Management  Case: KIO Networks

·         QoS in NaaS (Network as a  Service) using Software Defined Networking

·         Energetic Data Centre Design Considering Energy Efficiency Improvements During Operation

·         Demand-side Flexibility and Supply-side  Management: The Use Case of Data Centers and Energy Utilities

·         DevOps: Foundations and its Utilization in Data Centers

·         Sustainable and Resilient Network Infrastructure Design for Cloud Data Centres

·         Application Software in Cloud-Ready Data Centers

This book bridges the gap between academia and the industry, offering essential reading for practitioners in data centers, researchers in the area, and faculty teaching related courses on data centers. The book can be used as a complementary text for traditional courses on Computer Networks, as well as  innovative courses on IT Architecture, IT Service Management, IT Operations, and Data Centers.

Intelligent Decision-Making Support Systems (i-DMSS) are specialized IT-based systems that support some or several phases of the individual, team, organizational or inter-organizational decision making process by deploying some or several intelligent mechanisms.

This book pursues the following academic aims: (i) generate a compendium of quality theoretical and applied contributions in Intelligent Decision-Making Support Systems (i-DMSS) for engineering and management IT-based service systems (ITSS); (ii)  diffuse scarce knowledge about foundations, architectures and effective and efficient methods and strategies for successfully planning, designing, building, operating, and evaluating i-DMSS for ITSS, and (iii) create an awareness of, and a bridge between ITSS and i-DMSS academicians and practitioners in the current complex and dynamic engineering and management ITSS organizational.

The book presents a collection of 11 chapters referring to relevant topics for both IT service systems and i-DMSS including: problems of selection of IT service providers, optimization of supply chain systems, IT governance decisions, clinical decision support, dynamic user-interface adaptation, re-engineering of processes, and generic decision problems. Advanced IT technologies used in some chapters are:  fuzzy multi-criteria mechanisms, semantic processing, data mining processing, and rough sets. Other chapters report traditional DSS mechanisms but used or suggested to be used in innovative mode for IT service engineering and management tasks.