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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 11, 2018
Filed:
Sep. 27, 2016
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Dustin W. Demetriou, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);
Vidhya Shankar Venkatesan, Bangalore, IN;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A system, method and computer program product for optimizing total cost of ownership (TCO) of a piece of IT equipment, e.g., a hard drive or server, using predictive analytics. The data center environment monitors and measures a number of environment variables, including temperature, Relative Humidity, and corrosion. For each piece of hardware, several pieces of data are assigned, including a criticality measure, an operational cost (function of environment), a static replacement cost, and a downtime cost (function of time). For each piece of hardware, if it has not yet failed, the system predicts a time-to-failure using the environment variables. If predicted time-to-failure exceeds an expected reference life criteria, real time TCO analytics is performed to minimize data center energy usage and/or maximize operational cost-efficiency.