Winning company will receive “Less Watts” Award to kick off Greenbuild 2013 in Philadelphia

DVL Group, a provider of data center power, cooling and infrastructure management solutions, has pledged to assist 12 data centers achieve LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Certification and save 1,000,000 watts of electrical energy. Three companies that save the most watts will receive the Less Watts Award and DVL will donate $1,000 to the Delaware Valley Green Building Council (DVGBC) in each company’s name.

DVGBC is a chapter of the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), which set the standards for LEED building. DVL will work with each company to achieve LEED Certification, administered by the Green Building Certification Institute (GBCI). LEED Certification verifies that a building was designed and built using strategies aimed at achieving high performance in key areas of human and environmental health: sustainable site development, water savings, energy efficiency, materials selection and indoor environmental quality.

Facilities and IT personnel interested in making their data centers more efficient by participating in the Less Watts competition should attend DVL’s “Are You Prepared For What’s Next?” event at their Bristol, PA facility. The free conference takes place on May 9 and 10, offering the same seminars each day. All courses will feature IACET-authorized CEUs. The virtual Less Watts Award ceremony will kick off the annual Greenbuild International Conference and Expo.

On May 3^rd, 2012, Mayor Nutter made an announcement to celebrate the annual Greenbuild Conference, which will take place in Philadelphia from November 20-22, 2013. DVGBC is the host chapter for the three-day event. The convention will feature speakers, networking opportunities, industry showcases, LEED workshops and tours of Philadelphia’s green buildings.

DVL wants to show companies that it only takes one positive, “green-friendly” action to set the tone for data center efficiency and sustainability. Its hope for the Less Watts competition is for LEED Certification to become a priority for more organizations, and for these organizations to work with DVL to achieve this goal.

To register for either day of DVL’s “What’s Next?” event, visit www.dvlnet.com/prepared-for-whats-next-/. To learn more about how DVL merges its innovative “Strategy First” technique with quality solutions to build dynamic data centers, visit www.dvlnet.com. For more information on Greenbuild 2013 in Philadelphia, head to http://dvgbc.org/greenbuild-2013.

Trellis may refer to:

1. An architectural structure often used to support plants

2. A special kind of graph, often used in coding

3. A lattice

4. Quantization, a method of improving data compression, often used in video compression

5. An outodoor garden frame which can be used for partitioning a common area 

6. A trestle, a bridge that consists of a number of short spans

In the Data Center world - the Trellis platform represents a groundbreaking innovation from Emerson Network Power - one that bridges the gap between IT and Facilities.  Trellis helps IT and Facilities connect, communicate and control all assets within the data center.  The intelligence build into the platform allows you to execute decisions in real-time and then immedidately validate and assess the impact on your critical infrastructure.

Learn more about Data Center Infrastructure Management & Trellis at the DVL event on May 9 or 10:

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Measurable Cost Savings In The Data Center

April 17, 2012

Radisson Valley Forge

King of Prussia, PA

7:30 AM to 3:30 PM

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The Vendor Technology Forum is a first of its kind event for the Delaware Valley Chapter, with an End User only audience. End Users will see six presentations from Vendors discussing leading edge innovation that produces Measurable Cost Savings In The Data Center. Attendance is free to End Users. Attend this forum to learn what is next for cost savings in your Data Center, network with your End User peers in the industry, and interact with leading solutions providers.

DCIM is getting the IT infrastructure layer and the physical infrastructure layer to operate as one.  It's essentially virtualizing the physical infrastructure, just like what has happened to the IT infrastructure layer.  Covering this gap is very broad, so in order for that to happen you still need to draw boudaries.  What is your DCIM strategy?

The DCIM market is moving full steam ahead.  Steve Hassell, president of Emerson's DCIM division, Avocent, and Kevin Brown, VP of Data Center Global Offer at Schneider Electric, put their top DCIM questions to each other in this Data Center Infrastructure Management discussion.

Check out the questions below.

What are you hearing from CIOs as to the critical needs driving them to better manage their physical infrastructure and integrate that with the logical systems infrastructure?

How does a customer get started with a DCIM implementation?

Traditional data center design practices have involved several levels of power margins resulting in stranded capacity and lower efficiency.  How can DCIM help recapture some of that capacity without compromising availability?

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