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Capturing benefits
Published in Katherine L. Yates, Corey J. A. Bradshaw, Offshore Energy and Marine Spatial Planning, 2018
Tara Hooper, Matthew Ashley, Melanie Austen
Co-location brings the potential for cost savings for both sectors in terms of shared infrastructure costs, operations and maintenance activities, and environmental impact assessment and monitoring (Buck et al., 2004, 2010; Krause et al., 2011). Griffin et al. (2015) suggest that shared operations and maintenance activities could result in substantial savings (of millions of Euros) for both industries, although the extent to which these could be realised depends on how much the shared activities result in the increased use of existing capacity (i.e., filling downtime of vessels and personnel) compared to the need for new investment to accommodate new activities. Also, any incidents of damage as a result of one industry’s activities impacting on the other will be costly, and so there is a need to offset the costs of additional insurance against the benefits of co-location (Griffin et al., 2015).
Lean in design
Published in Lincoln H. Forbes, Syed M. Ahmed, Lean Project Delivery and Integrated Practices in Modern Construction, 2020
Lincoln H. Forbes, Syed M. Ahmed
Whereas construction sequences are more defined, design is unclear, and there is hidden waste in many design activities. Deliverables are established for the design team, but lead designers work with others to sort out activities and the sequence needed. Phone calls and checks are made to ensure that follow up is done. The approach is one of facilitation rather than applying pressure. Co-location helps because of the personal contact and communication that it provides.
The Cloud
Published in Preston de Guise, Data Protection, 2020
Consider now the approach that many businesses take toward disaster recovery. There will either be a dedicated disaster recovery datacenter for the business, or there will be rented rack space in a co-location facility with equipment maintained for the purposes of facilitating a disaster recovery operation.
A green proactive orchestration architecture for cloud resources
Published in International Journal of Computers and Applications, 2019
Srikantaiah et al. [21] presented an energy-efficient heuristic approach to perform workload consolidation of multi-tiered web applications in a cloud environment. The authors discussed consolidation as a modified multi-dimensional bin-packing problem of allocating and migrating workloads to achieve energy optimal operation. However, this work assumed homogenous environment which is not the case in the cloud. Also, this work focused only on CPU and disk resources and neglected many other issues that affect consolidation, including application affinity, server and workload behavior, security restrictions that required co-location of certain application components. Furthermore, this work did not provide an explicit mechanism for amending resources provisioning to cope with the frequent work load fluctuations which considered a salient feature at web applications.