A free 1-day seminar

Want to know what changes you can implement today to make your data center more energy efficient now? Find out at our Data Center Energy Efficiency seminar where you'll get the surprising list of enhancements for servers, storage and the infrastructure that can help you decrease power consumption quickly while laying the foundation for a more efficient overall data center.

Gain FREE admission to the Data Center Energy Efficiency seminar on June 17, 2008 in Washington D.C.

For this seminar, we've brought together renowned data center facilities expert Ken Brill and IT guru Joe Clabby to show you ways to can decrease data center energy consumption TODAY without major new hardware investments and how to continuously improve energy efficiency to get to a more efficient architecture.

Attend and discover how to reduce energy costs and:

• Set achievable energy reduction goals
• Measure data center energy consumption piece by piece
• Get more out of the hardware you already have
• Deploy more energy efficient hardware
• Reduce infrastructure overhead

Register for this seminar now!

Don't miss this opportunity - registration is free, which means attendance is limited. Reserve your seat today by completing our quick online registration form or call Chris King at 508-621-5594.

What you learn:

Session 1: Revolutionizing Data Center Efficiency  

With the recent and projected growth of data centers, in number and size, companies are facing multiple challenges as they continue to keep up with ever-changing developments in the realm of energy efficiency. Ken Brill, Founder and Executive Director of The Uptime Institute, sets the day in motion with a compelling presentation on best practices for planning, managing and deploying a data center environment that will assist in a solution to double future IT energy efficiency. Ken also provides insightful and analytical responses to the following questions:

• What are the significant challenges data center enterprises will face now and in the future?
• What are the primary drivers of poor efficiency?
• How can companies improve efficiency and solve the challenges of rising spend and GHG emissions?

Session 2: Strategies for Reducing Data Center Costs

Reducing data center costs is always a top priority, and is undoubtedly the most challenging task when dealing with continuous technology upgrades and requirements. In our second session, speaker Ken Brill, Founder and Executive Director of The Uptime Institute explores several strategies for reducing data center costs. Ken will discuss the impact of IT reliability decisions on energy consumption to simplify your cost concerns and help you set achievable energy reduction goals. Topics covered in this session include:

• Determining organizational “greenness” maturity within your data center
• Building a process for improving your data center costs
• Best practices for measuring the progress of your green data center

Session 3: Deploying Energy Efficiency Hardware in Your Data Center

Looking for assistance with deploying your new energy efficient hardware in your data center? Joe Clabby, from Clabby Analytics examines how much more you can afford to spend for energy efficiency based on local utility costs, data center tier level, remaining data center capacity and other important factors. Joe also explores the following:

• How to make life cycle energy consumption part of your hardware procurement
• Quantitative vs. qualitative evaluation approaches

Session 4: Best Practices for Data Center Hardware Utilization

Many factors come into play when assessing a strategy for how to best utilize your data center’s existing hardware. Though complex and demanding to manage, virtualizing your data center hardware can actually be beneficial to you both financially and as part of your disaster recovery plan. Speaker Joe Clabby discusses the advantages and pitfalls to virtualizing and consolidating your data center hardware, including the following tips:

• Saving energy by identifying and killing comatose hardware
• How to enable power save features

Don't miss out! Attendance is free, apply now by registering online or call Chris King at 508-621-5594 to reserve your seat today.

Also at this seminar:

Dimension Data Solution Session

Dimension Data is a large specialist IT Infrastructure company and a member of the Green Grid.  In this session, Marc Duvoisin discusses the pros and cons of virtualization as a means to reduce your carbon footprint.

• How can I cool what I can’t see? 
• What’s a thermal footprint and how does virtualization affect it? 
• Are you ready to manage mini-mainframes?

Marc Duvoisin discusses executing a balanced approach to Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency.  The current state measurements look at first at reducing data center power and cooling load requirements and second at improving the datacenter power and cooling infrastructure.  The recommendation is always to virtualize some of your environment.  The true question is how much do I virtualize and how do I maintain consistent business application performance through the change and after the deployment.  Marc also looks at what organizations find after they virtualize their environment and describes how you can avoid some of the pitfalls that others have found.

Join Marc and Dimension Data for this presentation and for the Dimension Data cocktail reception following the formal program.

About Marc Duvoisin:

Marc Duvoisin is the National Practice Director for Dimension Data’s North American Data Center and Storage Solutions practice.  Dimension Data, a specialist IT infrastructure services and solutions provider with expertise in data centers, networking, and security, has been successfully building and supporting server and storage solutions since 1993.  Dimension Data focuses on helping their clients with consolidation, continuity and compliance challenges.  Marc received his BSE in Biomedical Engineering from Tulane University and has a Masters in Industrial Engineering from University of Central Florida.  He is a published author and former NASA engineer.

Who should attend:

This seminar is designed for IT managers and IT practitioners looking for ways to better manage data center energy costs and consumption.

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