Green IT

In a recent survey, IDC found that 84% of datacenters had issues with power, space and cooling capacity, assets and uptime that negatively impacted business operations.  This study also found that 92% of data center managers preferred an integrated DCIM approach. But, how do you make the business case to justify the investment in a DCIM solution?

In this webinar, you’ll learn how leading companies have achieved early ROI with DCIM through a combination of greater efficiency, improved availability and reduced power consumption.   You’ll also gain insights and best practices on how to convert data center efficiency metrics into meaningful analytics for operational improvement.

All data centres are looking at strategic transformation, usually, and sensibly, based on how to get more 'bangs per buck' in a volatile business climate. However, there is a growing view that, as an industry, we are in danger of digging our own grave when it comes to energy efficiency. Governments may look at registration for all participants and then for a common reporting metric. The big question is "which ones to use?" It is likely that every data centre will be under a great deal more scrutinity than is the case at the moment.

A co-ordinated approach to transformation is needed, but this is not easy in practice; some businesses see data centres in a strange way, governments are often, in effect, clueless and the proliferation of trade bodies only seems to muddy the water.

This webinar explores how the practical application of frameworks, metrics and accreditations might be used to avoid common pitfalls when implementing a Data Centre transition.

IT professionals are often running out of power at the rack, creating hot spots and not properly managing capacity. Learn how to avoid these common issues as well as different concepts for data center design.

This talk will describe the key driving forces affecting data center costs, developing and documenting detailed examples from available data, estimating costs and correcting them for inflation, and explaining the implications of the results. It also will explore some ways to improve data center efficiency, the most important and most neglected of which relate to institutional changes that can help companies reduce the total costs of computing services.

Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) has been discussed in data center conferences and media. It is a set of tools and methods to make a data center as a whole perform optimally. Simply put, DCIM deals with mechanical and electrical systems of facilities, and power and environmental information of IT equipment. No standards have been defined yet but several functional areas have been mentioned, such as Inventory, Change, Capacity, Simulation, Monitoring and Efficiency Modeling. Many vendors have emerged with various solutions that focus on one or a few areas but not on a holistic scale. So the integration of multiple tools will be necessary to satisfy the overall needs and some vendors are working together to integrate their solutions.

But equally important is how to manage IT equipment at a higher level, such as server health, and application and service status. This is the market segment known as system management. Although DCIM and system management have been developed independent to each other, it is increasingly necessary to integrate the two to manage a data center even more efficiently. The information obtained with system management functions will become crucial to control the infrastructure sides of facilities and even IT equipment.

In this panel session, we will review DCIM solutions and how they can be integrated with system management for better design and operations of data centers. We will also discuss the impact of such integration, such as management and organizational structure. But at the same time, we need to realize that the ultimate goal of having a data center is to satisfy business goals of an enterprise with IT infrastructure, such as server health and applications status. That is why it is utmost important to integrate both IT and Facilities under common management to plan, design, monitor and control. Join this panel as these thought leaders discuss how you can use DCIM to best manage the facilities and IT within your data center.

Learn how you can improve the performance and efficiency of your data centers with Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM). How do you leverage power, space and cooling optimally, to meet the needs of the business? Learn how Datotel, a provider of business solutions including private cloud computing, colocation and hosted managed services, is using DCIM to achieve improved energy management in their data center.

In this complimentary webinar, you’ll:
- Learn how the technology can help data center operators to monitor and optimize performance, to better manage capacity and to reduce costs.
- Hear how Datotel is using DCIM technology to capture and analyze detailed real-time information to achieve insight into data center energy use
- Discover where DCIM is going in the future, including how DCIM can deliver further significant benefits if it be integrated into an overall management architecture for IT service delivery
- Learn what to consider when evaluating technology solutions and to integrate DCIM with existing IT management processes.

Register below to join:
- Andy Lawrence, VP of Research for Data Center Technology, The 451 Group
- David Brown, CEO, Datotel
- Peter Gilbert, VP of Energy & Sustainability Strategy, CA Technologies

With funding decreasing every year for higher education, universities are turning to data centers to cut some of their operating expenses. Find out how Utah State University redesigned their data center with energy efficiency in mind to both lower the cost of running their infrastructure as well as understand their role in the environment.

This webinar will cover topics including:
- Understanding the fundamental problems with a data center redesign
- Developing a solution for hot isle, cold isle design
- The efficiency results from USU's redesign
- How the USU data center has impacted the educational environment

Cloud computing seems like the perfect solution for creating an efficient and eco-friendly data center -- you, personally, have no physical data center to manage or bills to pay for the facility. However, is that necessarily true? Is cloud computing a process efficient and energy efficient investment for data centers? Join this panel as industry thought leaders discuss whether you can be efficient and energy-conscious by adopting cloud computing.

This panel will answer questions such as:
- How much more efficiency does the cloud provide than physical, on-premise data centers?
- How are you measuring efficiency after moving to a cloud provider?
- What benchmarking should you do internally before deciding what's efficient or greener?
- How will the transition from traditional data center to the cloud affect how the organization runs its business?

Is your storage infrastructure as energy efficient as it can be? Learn about common industry best practices and technologies such as thin provisioning, data deduplication, compression and storage-tiering to reduce energy consumption. Understand the SNIA Emerald Specification and Program for energy metrics when selecting new storage solutions.

The 451 Research, a division of The 451 Group, is an independent technology-industry analyst company focused on the Business of Enterprise IT Innovation. Our research makes sense of swiftly moving trends in the industry creating information technologies (IT) used by large and midsized organizations. We have offices in the US and Europe.

CNet is the world's leading provider of Data Centre training and the only source of Data Centre qualifications in the world today. Our Data Centre courses are the only means of acquiring independently awarded QUALIFICATIONS that are accredited by the largest number of independent organisations of any communications training provider; these include City & Guilds, BTEC (Edexcel), and BICSI. CNet also provides specialist training in IP & Communications with a full portfolio of technically based courses.

The Data Centre Alliance is a professional, not-for-profit association open to all Data Centre operators and Data Centre industry organisations to represent the data centre industry to the business world, academia, the media, governments and the general public.