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This FREE event is open to End Users ONLY

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.

Is DCIM the monitoring, collection and analysis of real-time, continuous, accurate information from an intelligent infrastructure that allows for immediate action, designed to keep the data center in an optimal state of balance between availability, efficiency and capacity?   Is it a framework for operating the data center?

What are your thoughts?

DVL and Emerson Network Power hosted a Data Center Infrastructure Management Seminar at the Microsoft Technology Center on Friday (2/24/12) - we had a great turnout and discussion. If you missed the seminar, click here to check out the presentation.

IT and facilities organizations have invested heavily in technology resources (people, processes, and tools) to manage the data center infrastructure, they have failed to achieve the promise and potential due to critical gaps between their data center facilities and IT infrastructure components. A new perspective on managing the critical infrastructure gaps is emerging that recognizes:

• The importance of 'real-time' data to understand the true capacity of available infrastructure
• The criticality of interdependencies between logical and physical layers
• The need for holistic management capabilities and visibility of IT and facilities infrastructures
• The need for more powerful management tools that offer a rich, visual view of the infrastructure and can guide design and change management 

>> Check out the FOUR TRENDS Driving the Future of Data Center Infrastructure Design and Management.

One thing we are seeing more and more of today is confusion over what temperature and humidity parameters data centers should be designed for.  Most of the discussion seems to assume that there is a monolithic block of data centers that can all be designed the same way.  Nothing could be further from the truth. 

Most of the data centers in existence today have a mixture of technologies and systems that all have varying environmental requirements.  We typically refer to these as mixed use data centers.  Unlike an E-Bay, Google, Microsoft or Apple data center, there is not rack after rack of the same equipment, all with similar operating requirements.  That is a very small, but highly publicized part of the market.  Everyone loves to write about the latest designs from Yahoo, Google, Apple, Etc, but they are not representative of the larger data center market as a whole. 

I know these data centers don’t get the publicity of the designs that push the envelope, but they are much more representative of the data center market as a whole.  We certainly do our share of cutting edge designs, but the majority of our clients are looking for ways to add capacity and increase the efficiency of their “traditionally designed” data centers.  This may include air and water side economizers and/or more efficient UPS systems and distribution.   The designs vary significantly, but the one thing these data centers have in common is that they all have equipment requirements that would preclude some of the modern designs that have little to no temperature and humidity control.

Published on 30th January 2012 by Ron Hughes-Data Center Dynamics

Every 3 to 4 months, DVL hosts a small Data Center Users' Forum.  The mission of the DCUF is to provide a commercial free forum where members collaborate on relevant mission-critical issues, new technologies, customer testimonials, and best practices affecting reliability, availability, and lowest cost of operation.

Last Friday, the DCUF, which includes IT and facilities professionals from multiple industry types, discussed various topics including:  Data Center Infrastructure Management, metering and trending, bridging the gap between IT and Facilities, outsourcing vs. keeping everything in-house, industry power trends, passive RFID asset technology, containment, power outage/root cause analysis.

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