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Business Innovators Series Webcasts

2010 Live Webcasts
To 30kW and Beyond: High-Density Infrastructure Strategies that Improve Efficiencies and Cut Costs Wednesday, August 18, 2010 – 4:00 P.M. Eastern Standard Time / 1:00 P.M. Pacific *REGISTER NOW* Instead of building data centers out, like a city with a growing population supported by sprawling suburbs, data center designers and managers are increasingly finding that it is more efficient to build up and replace the sprawl with higher density racks. Today’s data centers capacities are skyrocketing as newer, denser servers are deployed, but in addition to capitalizing on faster, smarter and smaller computing technologies, organizations can also realize significant cost and space savings by deploying high-density power and cooling infrastructures to support these systems. Discover how high density cooling, aisle confirmation and power distribution architectures can help reduce facility space, energy costs and IT budgets.
On-Demand Webcasts

Critical Systems Monitoring: Innovative Strategies for Effective Infrastructure Management Today’s data center supports more critical, interdependent devices and IT systems in higher density environments than ever before. This fact has increased the complexity of data center operations – and created the need for more sophisticated and automated approaches to IT infrastructure management. Gaining control of the infrastructure environment leads to an optimized data center that improves availability and energy efficiency, extends equipment life, proactively manages the inventory and capacity of the IT operation, increases the effectiveness of staff and decreases the consumption of resources. Join us, to discover the latest infrastructure management strategies for improving IT infrastructure performance and uptime. Efficiency without Compromise: Optimizing Data Center Infrastructure to Reduce Cost and Deliver High Availability Energy efficiency has emerged as a data center manager’s top concern, but true data center efficiency is not limited to lower energy consumption – it encompasses efficiency of all aspects of design, operation and management. Discover four areas of opportunity for cutting data center design and deployment time, reducing operating costs and enhancing management and planning success, all while maintaining—or improving—data center availability. This session will examine how organizations can capitalize on infrastructure management, eco availability, high density and flexible capacity strategies to balance uptime and efficiency. Integrating Optimized Economizers in Your Data Center Design to Leverage the Advantages of "Free Cooling" Integrating economizers into data center cooling architectures can be an effective approach to improving efficiency. However, designs need to consider humidity, contamination, system reliability, and controls to ensure that data center availability is not compromised. This webcast presentation will provide an understanding of the costs, benefits and best practices associated with implementing air-side and water-side economizers in specific climates. In addition, project examples will be provided that illustrate best practices in integrating economizer systems into data center precision cooling designs. Measuring Data Center Efficiency: Tools to Demonstrate the Benefits and ROI of Enhanced Energy Efficiency This webcast will give you a simple tool to demonstrate the ROI and performance-enhancing potential of data center efficiency improvements. It will review a holistic, prioritized roadmap for reducing data center energy consumption, and then reveal a proxy metric that takes an important step toward a universally accepted measure for data center output – an “MPG” for data centers. Learn how IT and data center managers can use an efficiency metric to improve and benchmark data center energy efficiency in a holistic way, pinpointing energy saving strategies with the most impact and potentially increasing data center efficiency by 3.6 times. Strategies for Finding and Unlocking Hidden Power Capacity in your Data Center Infrastructure Sizing data center power systems can feel like buying shoes for a fast-growing teenager. Fortunately, data center power systems are proving to be surprisingly adaptable. This webcast will help you determine how much “flex” exists within your data center power infrastructure and show you how to assess and unlock the hidden capacity in your power systems. Whether you’re evaluating your current facility’s ability to can carry you into the future, or planning a new facility, this session will give you new insight into sizing - and growing - power capacity. Designing for Density: The Latest Cooling Strategies for High-Density Environments The American Society of Mechanical Engineers predicts that by 2011, computer and communications rack heat loads will reach 30 kW with heat load densities of more than 500 W/ft2– five times today’s typical overall heat load density. This webcast will explore new and evolving strategies – such as cold-aisle containment -- for designing a scalable, energy-efficient cooling infrastructure capable of meeting the high-density cooling challenges of today while preparing for the extreme densities of tomorrow. Attendees will also learn how a leading provider of data center solutions designs and maintains a sophisticated, energy-efficient cooling infrastructure to support mission-critical applications. Virtual Data Center Tour: Inside Emerson’s State-of-the-Art Data Center Be the first to see inside Emerson’s brand new 35,000-square-foot, energy optimized data center. Learn the latest strategies for creating an energy-efficient, highly available and concurrently maintainable physical infrastructure containing industry-leading features. The data center contains an AC power infrastructure offering three layers of redundancy; high-density precision cooling systems capable of cooling capacities upwards of 300 W per square foot; infrastructure management and monitoring technologies that enable remote management of the entire facility; and energy-saving features predicted to provide an energy savings of 30 percent compared to a traditional data center. Maximizing IT Performance and Efficiency with High-Density Cooling Rack densities of more than 20 kW have gone from prediction to a reality at the same time energy costs are taking a bite out of IT budgets. Energy-efficient, high-density cooling can deliver more computing performance with reduced energy use. Simplify your IT environment, achieve greater power efficiency and reclaim more capacity and space – in critical spaces of all sizes.