ISO/IEC TS 8236-1:2025
(Main)Information technology — Provisioning, forecasting and management — Part 1: Data centre IT equipment
Information technology — Provisioning, forecasting and management — Part 1: Data centre IT equipment
This document specifies a standardized method of optimizing IT provisioning within data centres by utilizing KPIs that enable the development of IT profiles for individual systems or platforms. The combination of the system and platform KPIs are used to establish an IT provisioning profile, establishing standard forecasting methods to optimize data centre resource effectiveness. This document: a) defines a method for identifying benchmarks and trends in IT provisioning; b) provides capability assessment/indicators of IT equipment over infrastructure life cycle, including preparatory, commissioning, expansion/contraction and/or retirement of IT equipment; c) provides a framework to establish IT provisioning forecast; d) provides a framework for IT provisioning output to be used as input to facility provisioning of space, power and cooling capacity requirements (see ISO/IEC TS 8236-2).
Technologies de l'information — Approvisionnement, prévision et gestion — Partie 1: Équipement informatique des centres de traitement de données
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ISO/IEC TS 8236-1
First edition
Information technology —
2025-09
Provisioning, forecasting and
management —
Part 1:
Data centre IT equipment
Technologies de l'information — Approvisionnement, prévision et
gestion —
Partie 1: Équipement informatique des centres de traitement de
données
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Contents Page
Foreword .iv
Introduction .v
1 Scope . 1
2 Normative references . 1
3 Terms, definitions, abbreviated terms and symbols . 1
3.1 Terms and definitions .1
3.2 Abbreviated terms .2
3.3 Symbols .3
4 Data centre IT provisioning . 4
4.1 Introduction .4
4.2 IT provisioning trends .4
4.3 IT provisioning forecast .5
4.3.1 General .5
4.3.2 IT provisioning for public cloud services .7
4.3.3 IT provisioning for data centre services .7
4.4 New data centre projects .7
4.5 Liquid cooled IT platforms .7
4.6 IT Platforms.8
4.6.1 General .8
4.6.2 Compute .8
4.6.3 Storage .9
4.6.4 Network .11
5 Data centre IT provisioning for technology refresh example .12
5.1 General . 12
5.2 Analyse available RUs . . 13
5.3 Analyse available power .14
6 Reporting of DCitP . . 14
7 Integration of DCitP with DCfP .15
8 Application of DCitP to forecast IT CAPEX and OPEX .16
8.1 General .16
8.2 In-house data centre CAPEX and OPEX .17
8.3 Colocation data centre services and OPEX .19
8.4 Managed data centre services CAPEX and OPEX .19
8.5 Public cloud services OPEX .21
Annex A (informative) Data centre IT provisioning example .23
Annex B (informative) Data centre IT provisioning for technology refresh example.53
Bibliography .55
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Foreword
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Introduction
The global economy is increasingly more reliant on information and communication technologies and the
associated generation, transmission, compute and storage of digital data. All markets have experienced
growth in the digital data for social, educational, medical and business sectors. There are a wide variety of
data centres within private enterprise, shared/collocation and cloud service providers that meet the growing
demands of the digital data. The growth of this digital data will continue at a rapid pace with the development
of devices within the “Internet of Things” category, artificial intelligence applications and the increased
ability to generate and transmit data while mobile with the deployment of 5G technology. With the transition
from air-cooled information technology (IT) equipment to liquid-cooling IT equipment technologies, with
the advent of processors with higher thermal design power (TDP) characteristics, resulting in higher power
densities, it is also important to coordinate IT air-cooled vs liquid-cooled provisioning plans with facility
provisioning plans.
Compute and storage technologies and requirements continue to change rapidly. This creates challenges for
IT professionals who are responsible for planning for the provisioning compute and storage systems, and
the networks interconnecting the systems. Data centre IT systems and platform ecosystems typically have
lifecycles of 3 to 5 years. However, using traditional methods, IT provisioning planners are challenged to
identify provisioning requirements beyond even 1 year. This results in significant challenges for data centre
facility provisioning planners who are responsible for identifying requirements for data centre facility
systems that have life cycles of 10 to 25 years.
Data centre IT personnel responsible for provisioning IT systems are often unfamiliar with how the IT
systems impact facility planning. They are also often unfamiliar with the abundance of information that is
available to them that can help them to develop a holistic, long-term plan for provisioning data centres. This
has resulted in reactive provisioning. This has also impeded data centre facilities personnel responsible
for planning power, cooling and space provisioning. The data centre facilities personnel have little or no
knowledge of IT requirements or advanced notice of facility system capacities required to support IT
systems that are to be deployed within the data centre.
With this background, growth of digital data is inevitable, and the reactive planning status quo will result
in greater frustration for both the IT and facilities provisioning planners. There is therefore a need for a
method to benchmark and trend IT provisioning using standard indicators, processes, and reporting.
A data centre provisioning key performance indicator (KPI) will provide a method to profile future IT
system requirements over the life of the infrastructure. This method is based on the data centre’s current
IT applications and equipment platform, their expansion or contraction trends, and the impact of future
changes in technology network, compute and storage processing density and efficiency. This will help guide
designers and planners to optimize the cap
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