Issue 7, Dec 09/Jan 10
FOCUS CONFERENCES
Confidence continues to rise across markets, as do projections of operating costs
Projected increase in costs of datacenter operation & projected facility development 2009-2010 (costs exclude investment activity) 20 15 10
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
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5 0
-6 -5 -4 -3 -2
Datacenter Confidence Index March 2008 – October 2009
Facility growth
Projected increase in operating costs 2009-10
TORONTO
8 December Marriott Toronto Downtown Eaton Center
New Canadian government initiatives and the latest IT developments delivering improved data center performance will be addressed in our first visit to Toronto.
SPEAKERS INCLUDE: Lydia Aouani
Natural Resources Canada Office of Energy Efficiency
Jean Jerome Baudry Founder and CEO
Baudry Cybernomics Corporation The Think Green Alliance
Stephen Walker Toronto Hydro-Electric System Director of IT Infrastructure
Patrick Guran PowerStream Chief Energy Conservation Office
Chris Loken from the University of Toronto will explore best practice in implementing high-density zones, high-performance computing centers and clusters, while Todd Lemay and David Shin from Bell Canada examine the promise of cloud computing to provide improved user experience, while balancing cost and efficiency. Stephen Walker, director of IT infrastructure at Toronto Hydro-Electric, outlines the availability of cash incentives for data center improvements.
DALLAS
10 December Renaissance Dallas Richardson Hotel
An in-depth look at revising data center management and design strategy to improve performance and reduce operating costs provides the core theme for DatacenterDynamics Dallas.
SPEAKERS INCLUDE:
Chris Klingebiel Snapfish Vice president of partner solutions and new ventures
Kfir Godrich HP Critical Facilities Services, delivered by EYP MCF CTO and director
Jim Kerrigan Grubb & Ellis Company
Executive vice president and director National Data Center Group
Brian Fortenbery from the Electric Power Research Institute assesses proven UPS technologies and topologies that yield reduced energy costs, reliability and maintain power quality performance, and Jim Kerrigan from the National Data Center Group provides a market focus on data center construction in Texas. Chris Klingebiel, VP partner solutions and new ventures at Snapfish, tackles the challenge facing data center and storage administrators in managing data growth, maintaining increasing service level expectations, and keeping within a restricted budget.
ATLANTA
29 January 2010 The Westin Peachtree Plaza
New year, new conference! DatacenterDynamics kicks off 2010 with a trip to Georgia’s state capital.
The speaker lineup is being finalised, so check www.datacenterdynamics. com periodically or updates to the programme, which will include the following themes:
Energy stewardship – How to maximise performance per watt in your data center whilst balancing the requirements for availability and agility
Data center design – The latest construction techniques, including adaptive thermal management, modular building platforms, and power architectures
Automation – How to build command and control toolsets that optimise your IT and facility infrastructure end-to-end
IT – New perspectives on how cloud computing, virtualisation and service-orientated architecture will impact your facility
Managing expansion – How will investments and specifications for data centers be affected by new demands of content and data as a result of the ever-growing information superhighway?
FURTHER INFO
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