Events:

Industry experts, interactive workshops and case study presentations will be used to demonstrate the cost saving benefits of “greening” your facility. Attendees at the Green Data Center Conference are decision makers and executives from corporate, non-profit and government agencies.

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The Data Center Maturity Model (DCMM) Assessment Tool webcast took place on Thursday, January 12 at 7:00am-8:00am PST and 1:00pm-2:00pm PST. This session detailed the future of DCMM and the newly created assessment tool. The tool allows you to assess your data center and IT portfolio against the DCMM, get access to your personal DCMM equalizer, and obtain benchmarking results. The webcast is now available for download in the Library and Tools section.

2011 Archive

The Japan Members-Only Workshop took place at Schneider Electric in Tokyo, Japan on December 16, 2011.

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DatacenterDynamics Conferences is a unique series of events tailored specifically to deliver enhanced knowledge and networking opportunities to professionals that design, build and operate data centres. The events give leading experts in the field the opportunity to share their insights with the top level data centre operators in across the industry.

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During the formative meeting, key industry players discussed next steps for launching The Green Grid Beijing and identified the top candidates to take on The Green Grid leadership roles in the region. We welcome your company to get involved in these efforts and encourage you to think about taking on leadership roles.

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The Deploying and Using Containerized/Modular Data Center Facilities webcast was held on Tuesday, December 6th at 7:00-8:00am PST and 1:00-2:00pm PST. Program Manager for Cisco Containerized Data Center services, Christopher Kelley, presented this analysis on where and when containers make sense, including discussions on pros and cons of using containers, explorations on efficiency, cost tradeoffs and how PUE should be measured.

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Server Design Summit 2011 is a two-day event that brings the latest in designing for next-generation virtualized servers in the cloud computing era! From simple blades to powerful high-end systems, servers are the key to managing networked computing.

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Gartner Data Center & IT Operations Summit offers a breadth and depth of knowledge that uniquely meets the requirements of data center professionals across disciplines.

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The program is designed to promote understanding of the opportunities and pitfalls of cloud computing, trends and developments. There is a focus on applying this knowledge to improve Business-IT alignment strategy.

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The Q4 Technical Committee Summit was held on November 17-18 in Chandler, AZ. The Summit was open to participation from Board and Contributor Members of The Green Grid, and featured collaborative working sessions on a variety of topics including Eco Mode on UPSs, Equipment Recycle Metric, Productivity Proxies, and Data Center Implications Post Japan Earthquake/Tsunami.

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Attended by the strategic and financial leadership of publicly quoted and private companies engaged in the Data Center and Cloud sector, Data Centre Strategies Middle East & Awards 2011 is the premier conference for financiers, investors, private equity, venture capital, property specialists, technology owners and professional intermediaries. This year's program will hear from regional and international operators and experts who will engage in robust debate that confront the many challenges evolving in a shifting data center and cloud market. 

Harkeeret Singh of The Green Grid will be delivering a presentation related to the reduction of operating expenses through data center best practices, approaching the topic from a financial perspective rather than an environmental perspective.

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7x24 Exchange is the leading knowledge exchange for those who design, build, use and maintain mission-critical enterprise information infrastructures, aiming to improve end-to-end reliability by promoting dialogue among these groups. 7x24 Exchange Conferences include a broad variety of topics that impact End-to-End reliability in formal and informal settings.

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The program aims to address operation challenges in structuring IT strategy, and providing a space for case studies. Discussions topics include: Making data security compatible with technology, the consumerisation of IT, delivering an agile strategy for replacing legacy systems, and how IT departments can help in the process of becoming Solvency II compliant.

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The program aims to assist the Hong Kong business community in understanding international and local low-carbon practices associated with ICT application, and then planning for implementing their own low-carbon ICT initiatives. The overall goal is to reduce operational energy/resource consumption as well as associated carbon emissions. The expected audience includes managerial, technical and non-technical staff from local companies.

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The National Association of Energy Service Companies (NAESCO) 28th Annual Conference will be held on November 1-2 in San Diego, CA. NAESCO is a national trade association which has been promoting the benefits of the widespread use of energy efficiency for over 25 years. NAESCO works collaboratively with allied trade groups, policy groups and customer representatives to accelerate market development and growth.

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DatacenterDynamics Conferences is a unique series of events tailored specifically to deliver enhanced knowledge and networking opportunities to professionals that design, build and operate data centres. The events give leading experts in the field the opportunity to share their insights with the top level data centre operators in across the industry.

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The program is designed to promote understanding of the opportunities and pitfalls of cloud computing, trends and developments. There is a focus on applying this knowledge to improve Business-IT alignment strategy.

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The Green Grid webcast on Utilizing the Energy Checker SDK took place on Thursday, October 20 at 7:00am-8:00am PDT and 1:00pm-2:00pm PDT. This session covered the use of the Energy Checker SDK to instrument applications for productivity. Content will include an overview of the goals of the Energy Checker SDK, how to use Energy Checker SDK to measure data center productivity (productive work vs. power), and the relationship to The Green Grid’s efforts of the Data Center Design Guide. The webcast is now available for download in the Library and Tools section.

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Given shifting demographics, complex political economics and heightened scarcity of resources, UBS believes that innovation across sectors becomes an even greater imperative. Firms that respond to significant structural change by innovating and leveraging these changes are likely to be the most sustainable. They will likely be the ultimate winners.

With leading corporations, consultants, policy experts, analysts, strategists and economists, our panel-based discussions will focus on key questions of innovation and sustainability

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The program is designed to promote understanding of the opportunities and pitfalls of cloud computing, trends and developments. There is a focus on applying this knowledge to improve Business-IT alignment strategy.

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The Green Grid EMEA Technical Forums are a series of 1 day conferences that will take place throughout Europe and will provide attendees with EMEA centric information on data center energy efficiency and offer the chance to network with your peers in the EMEA region.

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The Green Grid EMEA Technical Forums are a series of 1 day conferences that will take place throughout Europe and will provide attendees with EMEA centric information on data center energy efficiency and offer the chance to network with your peers in the EMEA region.

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DatacenterDynamics Conferences is a unique series of events tailored specifically to deliver enhanced knowledge and networking opportunities to professionals that design, build and operate data centres. The events give leading experts in the field the opportunity to share their insights with the top level data centre operators in across the industry.

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President of GE Digital Energy Bob Gilligan gathers thought leaders from around the industry to discuss "Modernizing The Electric Grid: Enabling a More Sustainable Energy Reality". 60 leaders from across industry speak on various topics from grid modernization to the impact of Information Technology on electrical generation and distribution.

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The Green Grid board member Dan Azevedo will conduct a taped interview with an Anixter representative to be included in Anixter’s 2011 video seminar series, “ipAssured: Converged Infrastructure Solutions for Data Centers,” to be aired at special events throughout the U.S. and Canada. Anixter, a Fortune 500 company, is a leading global supplier of communications and security products, electrical and electronic wire and cable, fasteners and other small components.

Oct 4 - Vancouver, BC
Oct 6 - Calgary, AB
Oct 20 - Dallas, TX
Nov 1 - Chicago, IL
Nov 3 - Denver, CO

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DatacenterDynamics Conferences is a unique series of events tailored specifically to deliver enhanced knowledge and networking opportunities to professionals that design, build and operate data centres. The events give leading experts in the field the opportunity to share their insights with the top level data centre operators in across the industry.

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The ASHRAE Temperature and Humidity Environmental Guidelines/Recommendations webcast was held on Wednesday, September 28 at 7:00-8:00am PDT and 5:00-6:00pm PDT. Dr. Michael K. Patterson, TGG Technology and Strategy Work Group Chair and Senior Thermal Architect working in the Eco-Technology Program Office in the Digital Enterprise Group at Intel Corporation, presented this session explaining The American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) Technical Committee on Data Centers (TC 9.9) white paper on expanding the thermal design guidelines for data centers. If you have any questions, please contact TGG Administration.

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DatacenterDynamics Conferences is a unique series of events tailored specifically to deliver enhanced knowledge and networking opportunities to professionals that design, build and operate data centres. The events give leading experts in the field the opportunity to share their insights with the top level data centre operators in across the industry.

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The Green Grid board member Dan Azevedo conducted a taped interview with an Anixter representative which was included in Anixter’s 2011 video seminar series, “ipAssured: Converged Infrastructure Solutions for Data Centers." Anixter, a Fortune 500 company, is a leading global supplier of communications and security products, electrical and electronic wire and cable, fasteners and other small components.

May 24 - Atlanta, GA
June 9 - New York, NY
June 30 - Minneapolis, MN
July 14 - Seattle, WA
Aug 4 - San Francisco, CA
Aug 11 - Raleigh, NC
Sept 8 - Washington D.C.

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DatacenterDynamics Conferences is a unique series of events tailored specifically to deliver enhanced knowledge and networking opportunities to professionals that design, build and operate data centres. The events give leading experts in the field the opportunity to share their insights with the top level data centre operators in across the industry.

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The 6th Annual IKS Data Center Services Conference in Moscow on September 6, 2011 will host more than 400 data center owners and C-level executives throughout Russia. IKS is a media company specializing in IT and telecom market in Russia. They run a monthly magazine, www.iksmedia.ru industry portal and a series of data center focused events.

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The Data Center Summit will focus on a variety of topics including data center efficiency, virtualization, data center administration, infrastructure design for data center, and cloud computing.

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The Green Grid's Special Seminar for Data Center Energy Efficiency took place in Tokyo on August 25. In this three-hour seminar, key representatives from Deutsche Bank and Hitachi presented case studies about power usage in data centers after the Japan earthquake/tsunami.

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The Understanding and Engaging Utility Incentive Programs webcast was held on Tuesday, August 23 at 7:00-8:00am PDT and 5:00-6:00pm PDT. Corban Lester, TGG Utility Task Force Lead and Energy Conservation Incentive Developer for Lockheed Martin, presented this intriguing session exploring server virtualization through a utility lens. This webcast also offered an overview of elements common to most utility incentive programs that The Green Grid and its members can use to better understand the pitfalls, challenges and opportunities that come with helping utilities help end users invest in efficiency.

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The Green Grid Executive Director Mark Monroe will speak at the Samsung CIO Forum, “Data Center ROI: Energy-efficiency and Cloud Computing,” co-hosted by Dell. This one-day, invitation-only event is targeted at CIOs, CTOs and COOs from Fortune 1000 companies. The agenda will feature senior-level speakers from Samsung and Dell (including Dell GM, Forrest Norrod), as well as major high-tech companies including CSCI, Facebook, Google, Intel, Microsoft, TechAmerica, VMWare, and a special keynote from Steve Westly.

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Eiji Taguchi, Chairman of the Japan Technical Work Group, will participate in a panel discussion on countermeasure for power saving for IT including Data Centers.

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Eiji Taguchi, Chairman of the Japan Technical Work Group, will participate in a panel discussion on countermeasure for power saving for IT including Data Centers.

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Eiji Taguchi, Chairman of the Japan Technical Work Group, will participate in a panel discussion on countermeasure for power saving for IT including Data Centers.

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The Intellect Data Centers Group, made up of elite members active in the data center arena including operators such as SunGard, Telecity and Equinix, law firms, and technology suppliers, have invited Harkeeret to present The Green Grid’s Data Center Maturity Model at their monthly members-only meeting.

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The Carbon Usage Effectiveness (CUE™) and Water Usage Effectiveness (WUE™) Sustainability Metrics webcast was held on July 20 at 7-8am PDT and 4-5pm PDT. The CUE and WUE metrics enable data center operators to quickly assess the water and carbon sustainability aspects of their data centers, compare the results, and determine if any energy efficiency and/or sustainability improvements need to be made.

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The Green Data Center Conference aims to address a broad range of topics such as: Reducing Energy Consumption & Improving Efficiency, Infrastructure & Communications, Going Bigger and Greener, Benchmarking Strategies, Building a Green Data Center from the Ground Up, Retrofitting your Existing Data Center, and Virtualization & Cloud Computing. GSMI, the organizing firm, will be marketing this event to over 100,000 industry participants through a direct marketing campaign that will target Chief Information & Technology Officers, Chief Executive & Financial Officers, Data Center Facilities Managers & Engineers, among others.

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The Q3 Technical Committee Summit was held on July 14-15 in Redmond, WA. During this meeting, TGG members collaborated on current technical projects, including strategy and development plans for the CIM profile demo, IT efficiency metrics calculator, Equipment Recycle Metric formation and development, and Alignment of the CUE™ and WUE™ sustainability metrics. The Summit was open to participation from Board and Contributor Members of The Green Grid.

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The Green Grid EMEA Work Groups Face-to-Face was held on July 7 in Paris, France. During the meeting, the group discussed 2011 technical and marketing plans in Europe, provided feedback on industry tools and specifications, and continued important work currently in progress. The meeting was open to participation from Board and Contributor Members of The Green Grid.

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2011 marks the 8th year for Information Age’s The Future of the Data Centre – a conference dedicated solely to data centresand targeted at IT and business decision makers from the UK’s largest companies. Along with a presentation of the Data Centre Maturity Model, attendees will hear talk on:

• How to build a cloud, including Private clouds – the myth and the reality, Integration and interoperability, working towards IT as a service – can virtualisation improve the IT operating model?, and storage architectures for cloud computing environments
  
• Mastering data centre energy, including The Smart Data Centre – energy monitoring and control technology, modelling your data centre's energy profile and a CRC energy efficiency catch up
  

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The Hosting and Cloud Transformation Summit Europe is the premier forum for executives in the hosting, cloud computing, datacenter and Internet infrastructure sectors. Corporate leaders, industry visionaries, practitioners, financial professionals and end users come together to learn, network and map out strategies for today's rapidly changing marketplace.

David will be speaking on a panel alongside Greenpeace entitled ‘Are data centres dirty and is cloud a solution?’. The panel is based on the recent Greenpeace report ‘How Dirty Is Your Data? ,’ which has made headlines in outlets around the world for naming cloud computing companies who are not transparent about their energy consumption or make bad energy choices. The objective of the report, as well as the panel, is to debate clean energy and influence energy choices as datacenter energy use grows at 12% each year.

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The ROI of Cooling System Energy Efficiency Upgrades webcast was held on June 21 at 7-8am PDT and 4-5pm PDT. This study examines the impact of energy efficiency improvements in the data center. The results of this study will allow The Green Grid to provide set improvement metrics and ROI models intended to assist data center operators with building credible business cases for performing energy efficiency improvements

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At the 7x24 Exchange Spring Conference, Mark Monroe, the Executive Director of The Green Grid will be speaking on the economic and environmental value in business computing. The Green Grid is becoming the global authority on resource efficient data centers and business computing environments, and has developed a number of resources that help to quantify the business value of efficient ICT equipment. This session will include materials from The Green Grid's recent technical and business projects, including business case studies from member companies, new tools like The Green Grid Data Center Maturity Model, and the international importance new sustainability metrics such as Water Usage Effectiveness (WUE) and Carbon Usage Effectiveness (CUE).

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The 3rd annual TGG Forum in Japan was held on June 9, 2011 from 13:00-20:00 at the Happo-en (1-1-1 Shiroganedai, Minato-ku, Tokyo Japan). The event was open to members of The Green Grid and non members who were interested in The Green Grid activities and issues around sustainability of energy savings for data centers. The program included a keynote from The Green Grid's President, John Tuccillo, and panel discussions on "what we can do" lead by the Japan Technical Work Group. In addition, a governmental representative from the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) discussed topics on countermeasures for electric power supply. The forum closed with a reception to provide attendees with an opportunity to network with their peers and meet some of the speakers.

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Each year at Symposium the best minds in the industry meet to discuss the critical issues surrounding enterprise computing, resource and energy efficiency, data center management, availability and productivity. The event attracts stakeholders in enterprise IT, finance, executive management, data center facilities, and corporate real estate.

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The Green Grid session will introduce the latest updates on metrics for data center efficiency as well as case studies using PUE metrics for its improvement.

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Data Centres Europe is Europe’s largest and only pan regional event for the data centre industry. The conference presents original research, strategic debate, market intelligence and insight, and offers all attendees the latest in technologies, operations and management for data centres. The 7th Data Centres Europe 2011 will continue to have a special focus on enterprise customers of data centres and their evolving outsourcing needs as emerging private clouds, new technologies and market shift impact across the sector.

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The Data Center Maturity Model (DCMM) webcast was held on May 3 at 7-8am PDT and 1-2pm PDT. The webcast covered a range of issues related to designing new data centers and identifying the ongoing steps and innovations required to achieve greater energy efficiency and sustainability improvements. The webcast and presentation are available for download in the Library & Tools section of the website.

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A Technical Committee Summit was held on April 28 (8am-5pm CT) and April 29 (8am-12pm CT) in O’Fallon, MO. This Summit featured working sessions that aligned with The Green Grid’s expanded mission to become the global authority on resource efficient data centers and business computing ecosystems. The collaborative sessions covered a variety of topics including sustainability metrics and the data center environmental life cycle. This free event was open to participation from Board and Contributor Members of The Green Grid.

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The 7th Japan Members-Only Workshop took place at the NRI Tokyo office (1-6-5 Marunouchi North Building, Chiyoda-ku)from 13:00-17:00 JST on April 15, 2011. The event focused on the deliverables from the recent TGG Technical Forum that took place on March 1-2 in Santa Clara, California.

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The DatacenterDynamics Conference and Expo series aims to address the challenges faced by owners and operators of legacy structures in need of upgrading and new builds required to meet the complex combination of required service delivery, technology advances, energy efficiency, resilience and security.

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The Green Grid session includes the introduction of new metrics and case studies for improvement activities for energy efficiency using PUE.

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Data Centre World is the largest free exhibition and conference for data centre professionals in the UK examining in detail the issues surrounding the selection, outsourcing, building, and running of a data centre.

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TGG members are invited to meet with a member of the Board of Directors during the Technical Forum. This is a great opportunity for you to discuss the topics of your choice with the Board. For example, how can your company get involved, ideas for technical projects, improving member value, etc. Your 20-25 minute meeting will be scheduled on the afternoon of March 1. You can select the top 3 Board companies you would like to meet with when you register and we will do our best to accommodate your request. If you already registered for the event, please email TGG Administration to sign up for a meeting.

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Today’s sustainability, IT, and business related decisions are becoming key priorities for many companies. Organizations are proactively considering ways to improve energy efficiency while also positively impacting the bottom line. As part of this process, your company is faced with a number of questions. How can we leverage the data center as an asset while improving the balance sheet? How can we ensure our business is prepared to calculate the impact of carbon and water on the data center?

To answers these questions and learn about other industry related topics, attendees were invited to register for The Green Grid Technical Forum 2011. This year’s Forum featured an expanded focus to address metrics and decisions on related business and sustainability issues. Further, The Green Grid Technical Forum provide new technical content, training, and discussions on industry trends. The presentations from the Technical Forum are now available for download in the Library & Tools section of the Web site.

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Data Center Pulse (DCP) will be holding their third annual Data Center Pulse Summit on February 28th at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, California. This event will be held in conjunction with The Green Grid Technical Forum & Members Meeting 2011. If you are planning to attend the Technical Forum you may be eligible to participate in this exclusive end user event as well. The goal of the Data Center Pulse Summit is to create content that will be shared with the industry through presentations at The Green Grid Technical Forum as well as through the Data Center Pulse YouTube channel. More information on the track details and agenda can be found at: http://datacenterpulse.org/FocusAreas/2011Summit.

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The Department of Energy (DOE), in collaboration with The Green Grid, is proud to announce the next Data Center Energy Practitioner (DCEP) Generalist training/exam in conjunction with The Green Grid Technical Forum 2011. The DOE “Save Energy Now” program has partnered with the industry to develop a process leading to practitioners qualified to evaluate the energy status and efficiency opportunities in data centers. The DCEP Program is driven by the fact that significant knowledge, training, and skills are required to perform accurate energy assessments. Target groups for participating include employees of property management companies, engineering consulting firms, service companies, data center end users, energy agencies, colleges, and utilities.

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During this event Data Centre Central and Eastern Europe will focus on a variety of topics affecting data centre operators in the Central and Eastern Europe markets.

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The Green Grid session will introduce the latest case studies on Energy Savings for Data Centers from the 2010 Data Center Award in Japan.

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2010 Archive

The Japan Members Meeting will be held on Friday, December 17, from 1:30 – 5:30pm JT at the NEC office (Kasuga) in Tokyo. During this annual end year members meeting, the Japan Data Center Award Winners will give presentations on their best practices for Data Center energy efficiency and the Japan Work Groups will highlight 2010 achievements and 2011 activities in Japan.

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The Green Grid EMEA Technical Forums are a series of 1 day conferences that will take place throughout Europe and will provide attendees with EMEA centric information on data center energy efficiency and offer the chance to network with your peers in the EMEA region.

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DC Building Power Asia '10 will include an informal exhibition featuring equipment, materials, and literature. Hitachi, a Contributor Member of The Green Grid, will give a presentation on "Issues to Consider for Higher Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) Data Centers."

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The Green Grid EMEA Technical Forums are a series of 1 day conferences that will take place throughout Europe and will provide attendees with EMEA centric information on data center energy efficiency and offer the chance to network with your peers in the EMEA region.

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The Green Grid EMEA Technical Forums are a series of 1 day conferences that will take place throughout Europe and will provide attendees with EMEA centric information on data center energy efficiency and offer the chance to network with your peers in the EMEA region.

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DatacenterDynamics Conferences is a unique series of events tailored specifically to deliver enhanced knowledge and networking opportunities to professionals that design, build and operate data centres. The events give leading experts in the field the opportunity to share their insights with the top level datacentre operators in across EMEA.

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This free event will be hosted by Tokyo Metropolitan Government and the Nikkei Newspaper and will focus on data center efficiency and global warming.

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DatacenterDynamics Conferences is a unique series of events tailored specifically to deliver enhanced knowledge and networking opportunities to professionals that design, build and operate data centres. The events give leading experts in the field the opportunity to share their insights with the top level datacentre operators in across EMEA.

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Formed in 1989, 7x24 Exchange is the leading knowledge exchange for those who design, build, use and maintain mission-critical enterprise information infrastructures, aiming to improve end-to-end reliability by promoting dialogue among these groups.

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This event will bring together customers and providers of data centre services to analyse and debate some of the key trends currently shaping the data centre space. The event will provide insights into what is a fast changing data centre market with the impact of a global credit crunch and financial recession and the introduction of new technologies, such as virtualisation and cloud computing, presenting both customers and providers with new risks, challenges and opportunities.

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DatacenterDynamics Conferences is a unique series of events tailored specifically to deliver enhanced knowledge and networking opportunities to professionals that design, build and operate data centres. The events give leading experts in the field the opportunity to share their insights with the top level datacentre operators in across EMEA.

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Data Center Users’ Group is sponsored by Emerson Network Power and helps managers tackle challenges in running 24x7 mission-critical operations and optimizing complex infrastructures. The conference agenda is educational and non-commercial in nature. It provides an interactive technical exchange focusing on data center operational and infrastructure trends and best practices, with discussions by industry experts and peers.

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This symposium is designed as the global information center of Green IT, presenting the latest trends in Japan and offshore. The event has various lectures planned including showcasing the new development of Green IT in Japan, the global standpoint, and company approaches so that you can follow the leading-edge of Green IT.

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Energy Efficiency Roadmap, hosted by Interxion and Schneider Electric, will be the first ever seminar to bring the leading global IT energy efficiency standards organisations under one roof. It will provide a unique opportunity to gather all the information you need to check your current assumptions against current best practice and European trends, and map out your medium-term energy efficiency strategy.

For the first time, The Uptime Institute, The Green Grid, and the EC Joint Research Centre, will share a platform, painting a comprehensive picture of current and upcoming energy efficiency standards, metrics, codes of conduct, incentives, and legislation.

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The 6th Japan Members-Only Workshop is taking place at the Intel Tokyo Office on September 17, 2010. The agenda includes the EPA Data Center Assessment, PUE Metrics Case Study, and an activity update on Data Center Design Guide. As a guest speaker, METI will provide presentations on Cloud Computing and Japan’s competitive strength.

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Data Centre Expo focuses on the hardware, software, virtual and physical issues surrounding the design, building, managing a data centre. DataCentre Expo is for the IT and facility management professionals involved in the design, build and management of data centres. The conference covers the latest technologies, solutions and the exhibition showcases the leading technology suppliers.

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Data Center Summit is the first in the region to focus on data center infrastructure and regulation, featuring experts from organizations such as the Uptime Institute, The Green Grid, BICSI ICREA, and International and Data Center Consultants. More than 800 visitors and about 40 exhibitors from throughout Latin America will participate in a technical symposium that extends for two days and focuses on the most recent trends on certification, design, optimization and practices green of data centers.

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Join experts from Intel IT, The Green Grid and Data Center Pulse as they discuss their perspectives on the future of data centers – What is the current state of data centers? Where do they need to evolve? What does IT need to take into consideration when planning to support the business needs of the future? What are the problems we will face?

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The main objective of this seminar is to enhance understanding of how information communication technologies make various socioeconomic activities smarter. The seminar will also focus on the importance of green ICT and identifying the challenges that governments need to address to promote it. Finally, the seminar also aims to share the importance of benchmarking data center energy efficiency as a policy issue. This event is organized by APEC (ASIA-PACIFIC ECONOMIC COOPERATION).

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Green Enterprise World Forum is a 1 day conference on green computing and is now co-located with the 2nd Cloud Computing World Forum. The conference agenda includes: leading case studies on how to integrate green computing into working practices; finding out how Green IT can create competitive advantage and improve your bottom line; learning from the key stakeholders in the industry and networking with leading platform and service operators.

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The DatacenterDynamics Conference and Expo series addresses the challenges faced by owners and operators of legacy structures in need of upgrading, and new builds required to meet the complex combination of exponential data growth, technology advances, energy efficiency, resilience and security.

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The Green Grid hel a forum on Friday, June 25th from 1:30 – 8:00pm JT to celebrate the second anniversary of its expansion into the Japan region. During the forum, The Green Grid’s Executive Director, Larry Vertal, presented “The State of The Green Grid”, which provided an update on the organization and activities to continue to drive energy efficient IT. Key leaders of The Green Grid’s Work Groups in Japan discussed Japan activities over the past two years. In addition, governmental representatives from the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communication and the Tokyo Metropolitan Government discussed efforts to improve data center energy efficiency. The forum closed with a reception to provide attendees with an opportunity to network with their peers and meet some of the speakers.

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DatacenterDynamics Conferences is a unique series of events tailored specifically to deliver enhanced knowledge and networking opportunities to professionals that design, build and operate data centres.

DatacenterDynamics Milan will address the challenges faced by owners and operators in allocating resources to meet the demands of exponential data growth, technology advances, energy efficiency, resilience and security in a tight budgetary environment. The conference agenda will cover green IT and its effect on data centre design through to the management, monitoring, and successful upgrade of existing assets.

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The 7x24 Exchange is the leading knowledge exchange for those who design, build, operate and maintain mission critical enterprise information infrastructures. We are a not-for-profit organization seeking to promote dialog among industry professionals to address the many challenges facing owners and operators of these facilities.

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The 5th Japan Members Workshop was held on Friday, June 4 from 1:30 – 5:30pm JT at the CTC office in Tokyo. During this quarterly workshop, TGG updates were provided to Japan members to reinforce TGG activities in Japan.

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The DatacenterDynamics Conference and Expo series addresses the challenges faced by owners and operators of legacy structures in need of upgrading, and new builds required to meet the complex combination of exponential data growth, technology advances, energy efficiency, resilience and security.

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During The Green Grid EMEA Webinar, leaders of the EMEA Technical and Communications Work Groups discussed The Green Grid’s latest technical deliverables and provided an overview of the materials presented during the public portion of The Green Grid’s 2010 Technical Forum. Webinar attendees learned about opportunities to become more efficient in managing their most important computing infrastructure and identify methods that lower costs and support global sustainability initiatives. This regionally focused webinar also highlighted current legislative trends, activities and regional tools specific to EMEA. The webcast and presentation are available for download in the Library & Tools section of the Web site.

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The ISC conference is famous for its world-class debates, with industry leaders and academia tackling the most important HPC issues. Over 200 hand-picked speakers will discuss topics, such as parallel programming, many-core systems, exascale computing, GPU computing, innovative applications and many more in various Conference Sessions.

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The DatacenterDynamics Conference and Expo series addresses the challenges faced by owners and operators of legacy structures in need of upgrading, and new builds required to meet the complex combination of exponential data growth, technology advances, energy efficiency, resilience and security. The conference agenda is being developed to ensure that it reflects the particular challenges and needs of the market in Zurich

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The British Computing Society (BCS) is hosting an evening of discussion called “Measuring Up? Metrics and your Data Centre”. In the quest for metrics that describe what we do in the data centre and how effectively we do it, PUE has been adopted as the first simple metric to describe the inefficiency in getting power from the utility feed to the IT equipment. So what's next? PUE is not and cannot be the end of the story. What do we need to define and describe the "useful work" done by a data centre and what are our next steps?

Come along to this event to listen to opinions from the industry's leading figures on what they feel is the best way to proceed with the development of metrics. Members of The Green Grid receive a 50% discount on tickets which usually cost £40+VAT. For more information on the event and tickets, please visit http://www.bcs.org/server.php?show=conEvent.5136

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This event is one of the largest event featuring “green IT”, gathering power saving and environment conscious products and solutions. “Green IT EXPO professional seminar” will provide green IT latest technology trends and, communicate neutral and practical IT technologies to end users.

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Besides helping the environment, “going green” in IT can help organizations more quickly get back in the black. This event helps you choose the best, proven approaches to boosting power efficiency and cutting costs. Join Ziff Davis Enterprise editors and industry experts for this half-day virtual trade show where you will hear from IT professionals like yourself. We will discuss best practices and how to best optimize the various green IT strategies. Additionally, the speakers will talk about common problems and how to avoid them.

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From power generation through the electric outlet and into the myriad of electrical devices vital to modern life and our well-being, information and communication technologies (ICT) offer tremendous opportunities to improve our energy efficiency. In this workshop three prominent organizations – the Green Grid, the GridWise Alliance, and Digital Energy Solutions Campaign (DESC) – will discuss their and their members’ and affiliates’ complementary roles and common goals of driving forward ICT technologies to achieved a more efficient, reliable, secure, productive and environmentally responsible energy system.

The Green Grid focuses on greening data centers and business computing ecosystems. The GridWise Alliance facilitates collaboration among all stakeholders in the electric ecosystem, advocating for the adoption of innovative smart grid solutions – including information and communications technologies – that provide economic and environmental benefits for all participants in the electric grid. DESC advances the enabling role of ICT to reduce environmental impacts, improve energy security and enhance economic growth across all sectors of the economy. Representatives of these leading organizations will lead an interactive discussion on these topics and the vital role of policies to unlock the energy efficiency potential of ICT.

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Data Centres Europe is Europe’s largest and only pan regional event for the data centre industry. The conference presents original research, strategic debate, market intelligence and insight, and offers all attendees the latest in technologies, operations and management for data centres. The 6th Data Centres Europe 2010 will include a special focus on enterprise customers of data centres and their evolving outsourcing needs as emerging private clouds, new technologies and market shift impact across the sector.

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This complimentary roundtable webcast brings together leading industry bodies to discuss the keys to data center efficiency and the role associations and consortiums should play moving forward to push industry standards. The presentation will be part of a full day summit, will be interactive while live, and will be instantly recorded for on-demand viewing. You can register to attend free of charge and view the presentation using the link.

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This seminar will provide depth information about issues and challenges of direct power adoptions targeting R&D managers of consumer electronics, and new energy system mover etc. and engineers who have interests in next generation power feeding system.

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This Symposium will provide you with the tools, resources and strategies to help you create competitive advantage through your environmental initiatives, for businesses of all sizes, with a focus on scaling solutions. Join peers from across the organizational spectrum impacted by sustainability, including: product strategy and marketing, operations and facilities management, IT, legal, HR, business development, environmental health and safety, and sustainability professionals. This Symposium offers a unique opportunity to dialogue, network, exchange ideas, and learn about the challenges and solutions being embraced by leading Silicon Valley organizations.

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The Product ”Avocent” of ITFOR Inc. users seminar.

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This event will convey information about hosting services for future cloud computing era.

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Data Centre World is the largest free exhibition and conference for data centre professionals in the UK examining, in detail, the issues surrounding the selection, outsourcing, building and running of a data centre.

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The 3rd Annual Green Grid Technical Forum and Members Meeting was held on February 3-4, 2010 at the Marriott Hotel in San Jose, CA. Attendees who joined this 2-day, 3-track conference learned what other companies have done and what they could do to improve the efficiency of your data centers; discussed The Green Grid Grid’s initiatives and deliverables including the Data Center Design Guide, PUE metric, regulatory and legislative trends, efficiency tools, etc.; provided input on completed and future projects; discussed The Green Grid’s collaboration with other industry organizations and government agencies; and networked with industry colleagues! The presentations from the Technical Forum are now available for download in the Library & Tools section of the Web site.

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The Green Grid is hosting the EPA’s ENERGY STAR Servers & Storage Stakeholder Information Workshop on Tuesday, February 2 at the Marriott in San Jose, CA. Representatives from the US EPA will provide updates on recent ENERGY STAR servers and storage specification development activities.

2009 Archive

FOSE is the #1 technology event for government in the nation. FOSE has earned that distinction by bringing together the tools, methods and systems to maintain, protect and modernize the nation’s IT infrastructure for more than three decades. The challenges facing the government IT community continue to grow. The rapid pace of change brought on by new technologies and changing expectations present tremendous opportunities with the right solutions. Discover those solutions at the 34th annual FOSE.

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Energy Efficiency Kicks It up a Notch: Marshaling the New Opportunities
NAESCO’s 2009 Annual conference program focuses on the many exciting new market opportunities for providers of energy efficiency and alternative energy resources while fully acknowledging the challenges of doing business in an ailing economy.

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DatacenterDynamics Conferences is a unique series of events tailored specifically to deliver enhanced knowledge and networking opportunities to professionals that design, build and operate data centres. The events give leading experts in the field the opportunity to share their insights with the top level datacentre operators in across EMEA.

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Greener World Media, publisher of GreenBiz.com and GreenerComputing.com, and The Green Grid are collaborating to produce a web seminar on October 29th, titled Strategic Management of Data Center Efficiency. The moderator will be industry icon Joel Makower, executive editor and cofounder of Greener World Media. This online seminar will help business executives, policy-makers, technology providers and facilities managers understand the strategic importance and practical steps towards data center efficiency. The timeliness and importance of this topic, combined with the marketing power of GreenBiz.com, GreenerComputing.com and Joel Makower’s drawing power, will certainly make this a very well attended event. If you are a member of The Green Grid and are interested in purchasing a discounted sponsorship package for the event please contact Alan Robinson of Greener World Media for more information.

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The Green Grid held a series of 1-day conferences that took place throughout Europe during the month of October. This was a great opportunity to learn about The Green Grid’s initiatives in metrics, tools, training, and collaboration to measure and improve data center efficiency and network with your peers! As a benefit of membership, all-day attendance was open to members only. A networking lunch was held midday to give you a chance to meet fellow members of The Green Grid and other industry stakeholders. The morning sessions were open to the public as well.

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The Green Grid held a series of 1-day conferences that took place throughout Europe during the month of October. This was a great opportunity to learn about The Green Grid’s initiatives in metrics, tools, training, and collaboration to measure and improve data center efficiency and network with your peers! As a benefit of membership, all-day attendance was open to members only. A networking lunch was held midday to give you a chance to meet fellow members of The Green Grid and other industry stakeholders. The morning sessions were open to the public as well.

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The Green Grid held a series of 1-day conferences that took place throughout Europe during the month of October. This was a great opportunity to learn about The Green Grid’s initiatives in metrics, tools, training, and collaboration to measure and improve data center efficiency and network with your peers! As a benefit of membership, all-day attendance was open to members only. A networking lunch was held midday to give you a chance to meet fellow members of The Green Grid and other industry stakeholders. The morning sessions were open to the public as well.

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The Green Grid held a series of 1-day conferences that took place throughout Europe during the month of October. This was a great opportunity to learn about The Green Grid’s initiatives in metrics, tools, training, and collaboration to measure and improve data center efficiency and network with your peers! As a benefit of membership, all-day attendance was open to members only. A networking lunch was held midday to give you a chance to meet fellow members of The Green Grid and other industry stakeholders. The morning sessions were open to the public as well.

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SNW is the world’s largest event for IT end-users, vendors, channel partners, press and analysts involved in storage, data center, infrastructure, and business continuity. At SNW, you can choose from over 150 educational sessions and network with peers from around the globe, plus visit with top solutions providers in the world’s largest Expo devoted to storage and related technologies. This is your opportunity to quickly gather reliable, firsthand, practical knowledge you can put to work right away.

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The Green Grid, in collaboration with the NYSE Euronext will be hosting a prominent industry discussion and forum event at the NYSE Euronext facilities in New York City. Exclusive panel discussions will foster conversation around the business impact of data center energy efficiency in the U.S. and abroad. You will learn from first-hand accounts how data center efficiency is driving economic benefits for businesses of all types and sizes. To conclude this historic event, The Green Grid will end the day with the ringing of the NYSE closing bell.

Leading end users, technology vendors, government institutions and enterprise companies will be represented on the panels and as part of the networking audience. Space is limited so attendance is open to two participants from each member company of The Green Grid or NYSE Euronext. The forum will also be open to select journalists and industry analysts.

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The 3rd Japan Members Workshop will be held on Tuesday, Septeber 29 from 1:30 – 5:30pm JT at the NEC office in Tokyo. During this quarterly workshop, TGG updates will be provided to Japan members to reinforce TGG activities in Japan. After the workshop a networking dinner will be held for attendees

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We are pleased to inform you that The Green Grid will be hosting the EPA’s forthcoming ENERGY STAR Computer Servers Tier 2 Stakeholder Workshop on Friday, September 25th at Sun Microsystems in Menlo Park, CA. We encourage you to take advantage of this opportunity to join fellow members of The Green Grid and key industry stakeholders at this workshop and help shape the future direction of this important specification.

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The Green Grid will be holding a second End User Birds-of-a-Feather Workshop on September 16, 2009 at the APC by Schneider Electric office in St. Louis, MO! This workshop aims to help you better measure your data center’s efficiency and power usage and discuss obstacles with your peers. It will be held in conjunction with the Technical Committee Summit on September 16-17, 2009 so workshop attendees are invited to attend this meeting as well.

Attendance is open to IT professionals who are involved in, or beginning, a data center measurement initiative or are responsible for data center efficiency monitoring / management. Participation is open to all member companies but will be limited to one participant per company with a cap of 30 attendees total so register early!

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DatacenterDynamics Conferences is a unique series of events tailored specifically to deliver enhanced knowledge and networking opportunities to professionals that design, build and operate data centres. The events give leading experts in the field the opportunity to share their insights with the top level datacentre operators in and across EMEA.

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The online global summit will provide advice and examples of NGDC implementation, best practice considerations, and new technologies that impact the data center. Presenters will also look at the optimisation of mission-critical applications and all the technology that supports and integrates them, including storage, servers, networking and communications.

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This online webcast summit will feature presentations by IT thought leaders who will present real life examples of NGDC implementation, best practice considerations, and new technologies that impact the data center. They will also discuss the optimization of mission-critical applications and all the technology that supports and integrates them, including storage, servers, networking and communications.

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As a focal point for end-users, consultants and solution providers, the DatacenterDynamics Conference & Expo is the Bay Area's largest gathering of professionals involved in the design, build and operational management of 24/7 mission critical IT facilities. It is an unrivalled education & networking opportunity for the industry, where the regular audience is characterized by senior representatives of the of the financial, medical, media, service provider, outsourcing/managed services, and other Fortune 500 companies operating throughout the Bay Area, Silicon Valley and the Western US.

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The Green Grid is holding a forum on Wednesday, July 8th from 1:30 – 7:00pm JT to celebrate the first anniversary of its expansion into the Japan region. The agenda includes global activity updates, PUE/DCiE reporting guidelines, data center productivity, productivity proxies, future plans, etc. In addition, key representatives from the Ministry, Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) and the Green IT Promotional Council (GIPC) will discuss Green IT issues and programs.

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This event deals with comprehensive theme in the latest IT industry together with Data Center 2009, Cloud Computing World 2009, and Green IT World 2009. The event appeals two major factors; cost Reduction and Optimization for IT investment. The purpose of the event will show how to build the best data center and how to take advantage of the best data center.

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DatacenterDynamics Forum is a unique series of events tailored specifically to deliver enhanced knowledge and networking opportunities to professionals that design, build and operate data centres. The events give leading experts in the field the opportunity to share their insights with the top level datacentre operators in across EMEA.

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The 2nd Japan Members Workshop will be held on Friday, June 19th from 1:15 – 4:30pm JT at the APC office in Tokyo. During this quarterly workshop, attendees will discuss The Green Grid’s metrics, the Data Center Design Guide program, and power distribution efficiency. Also, members can partake in an APC data center tour and attend a non-TGG hosted gathering for cocktails at a nearby restaurant.

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Inspired by the term “Interoperability”, it began with showing device interoperability using frontier technology at the time. Since then Interop has always been an upfront technology event by encompassing the leading technology of the time and functioning as a place to connect the leading professionals. This year’s Interop Tokyo you can see and learn all about Cloud Computing, Green ICT, NGN, Verturization, Next Generation Wireless, Next Generation Data Center solutions and any other ICT Solution for business.

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The EMEA Members Seminar will be held on Tuesday, June 9th from 2:00 – 5:00pm BST at the Sun Microsystems office in London.  During the workshop, members will discuss The Green Grid’s latest technical projects, how to get involved in Committees and Work Groups, and collaboration with industry and government bodies.

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DatacenterDynamics Forum is a unique series of events tailored specifically to deliver enhanced knowledge and networking opportunities to professionals that design, build and operate data centres. The events give leading experts in the field the opportunity to share their insights with the top level datacentre operators in across EMEA.

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EE Global 2009, hosted by the Alliance to Save Energy, will serve as an exchange of the latest technical, commercial and policy information, and will forge partnerships and develop best practices, policies and strategies for global implementation.

As part of the conference, The Green Grid is sponsoring a workshop on April 27th from 1-4pm. This session will provide attendees with an overview of The Green Grid’s goals and objectives for developing meaningful, platform-neutral standards, measurement methods, processes and new technologies to improve the energy efficient performance of global data centers. The Green Grid will also discuss information announced at the Spring Technical Forum, including such content as The Green Grid Data Center Design Guide, Proxies for Estimating Data Center Productivity, PUE Scalability and Using Virtualization To Improve Data Center Energy Efficiency. Attendees will receive information on assessing their data center energy usage and best practices and technologies which can help to improve their energy efficiency.

Agenda:
The Green Grid Overview
The Green Grid in EMEA
Going Forward
    Collaboration: Legislation, Advisory Council
    Metrics: Effective Measurement & Reporting of PUE/DCiE; The Next Steps - Data Center Productivity
    Tools: New Tools from The Green Grid; Free Cooling Tool, PUE & Power Calculator
    Training: The Green Grid Academy

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The annual conference will in 2009 will focus on the Enterprise and its data centre needs: how to ensure highly efficient tactics and strategies for IT delivery in the near and longer term; pricing, SLAs, and benchmarking third party outsourcing as the next wave of enterprise outsourcing accelerates with the economic downturn; the impact of horizon services, SaaS and Cloud Computing; and leveraging the latest energy technologies, carbon reduction and super cooling. Highlights include a CIO panel, a special focus on managed services, annual review of market landscape based on original research and a number of workshops assessing data centre locations. The event also hosts the annual industry Awards ceremony.

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The pinnacle of DCS's data centre conference series bringing together high level FM & I.T viewpoints. Topic focused panel format presented and moderated by senior industry representatives.

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Please join Google and other members of the IT industry to discuss best practices for building and measuring data center efficiency. Saving resources such as electricity and water is not just good for the environment, it makes good business sense too. Being "green" reduces operating costs and can keep our industry competitive; it is this economic advantage that makes efficiency truly sustainable. Join us to learn more about how Google builds and designs data centers, and to share your own opinions and ideas.

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This 3rd Annual Summit moves the energy efficiency debate forward, and challenges the relationship between data center efficiency and performance. Energy efficiency programs can not only make huge operational cost savings but are also an effective way of addressing a corporation's carbon risk, especially with forthcoming UK government initiatives such as the Carbon Reduction Commitment due to affect many operators through 2010. Adding productivity metrics to the equation will further concentrate operators minds on delivering maximum performance per watt.

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Hosted by the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) and jointly sponsored by the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA), the fourth annual Alliance Partner Technical Symposium is Monday, March 16th through Friday, March 20th, 2009. Led by DMTF's VP of Alliances, Mark Carlson, this year's event will once again offer meetings focusing on technical topics and addressing the technical work of interest to each of the DMTF’s Alliance Partners.

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Data Center World is an educational resource for data center professionals, presented by AFCOM, the largest association for data center management in the world. Recognizing the challenges of running a data center efficiently and effectively, Data Center World events were launched in 1981 with the goal of providing a hands-on, educational program to enable data center professionals to better balance the three key components of running a data center: management, business and technology. Conference sessions cover  these three critical issues, with particular emphasis on mangement and technology topics. Download The Green Grid's presentation for more information.

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As a focal point for end-users, consultants and solution providers, the DatacenterDynamics Conference & Expo is New York's largest gathering of professionals involved in the design, build and operational management of 24/7 mission critical IT facilities. It is an unrivaled education and networking opportunity for the industry, where the regular audience is characterized by senior representatives of the financial sector, trading firms, service enterprises and other Fortune 500 companies operating in the New York Metropolitan area.

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SNIA works toward this goal by forming and sponsoring Technical Work Group (TWGs), producing (with our strategic partner Computerworld) the Storage Networking World Conference series, building and maintaining a vendor neutral Technology Center in Colorado Sprins, and promoting activities that expand the breadth and quality of the storage and information management market. The SNIA's ability to accomplish these goals is directly attributed to the dedication and hard work of hundreds of volunteers from our member companies.

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This conference is designed for anyone involved with 7x24 infrastructures - IT, data center, disaster recovery and network/telecommunication managers; computer technologists; facility or building managers, supervisors and engineers.

2008 Archive

The Energy Efficiency Summit East 2008 will explore the current status and future direction for energy efficiency and demand management programs, technologies and finance. The Summit targets bringing utilities and ESCOs together with emerging customer groups such as data centers to explore the opportunities for expanding the use of energy efficiency and demand response technologies. Regulatory authorities will examine how to foster the implementation of energy efficiency and demand response, while investors and technology developers will provide an overview of new technologies that reduce energy usage in residential, commercial, utility and technology sectors.

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The Management Developers Conference (MDC) educates, trains and informs software developers about the exciting and evolving technologies for developing and deploying enterprise management solutions. As such, MDC is the Industry's only developer conference dedicated to Standards Based System and Network Management Technologies including: Management Initiatives, Management Profiles, Management APIs, Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM), Common Information Model (CIM) and other standards based management technologies.

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The 2008 DatacenterDynamics conference is focused on developing ways to help datacenter professionals understand how innovative approaches to IT/engineering and management practices can help them keep their mission critical infrastructure agile, flexible and robust. DatacenterDynamics is a unique series of events tailored specifically to deliver enhanced knowledge and networking opportunities to professionals that design, build and operate data centers.

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The Labs21 conference, co-sponsored by the International Institute for Sustainable Laboratories (I2SL), the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), provides a unique forum for industry leaders and professionals to discuss the challenges and opportunities facing sustainable laboratory design, construction, and operation worldwide. This annual event brings together more than 600 architects, engineers, builders, owners, and operators as we discuss the challenges and trends in designing, constructing, and operating sustainable, high-performance facilities.

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Business leaders and IT professionals come to Interop to learn about the latest technology innovations and how best to integrate them to provide business value. It is where technology companies showcase their latest products and services, where resellers and channel professionals create business relationships, where analysts stay up-to-date on the evolving market and where the media comes to report on the latest trends and product launches.

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Not just another ‘Green IT’ conference, the Carbon Footprint Energy Efficient IT Summit will provide a unique offering to IT Directors by both asking these next-level questions of ‘how’ and ‘where’, and providing actual solutions to common challenges associated with reducing energy consumption. The Carbon Footprint Energy Efficient IT Summit 2008 will go beyond conceptual frameworks and offers instead an exceptional opportunity to develop practical guidelines on energy reduction within IT systems.

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Get the knowledge you need to make your data center more dynamic, virtual, and power-aware than ever at this conference. More than 100 sessions by industry insiders, experts, and IT innovators provide proven techniques for the topics that matter most to your enterprise. Tracks include: Applications; Virtualization; Networking Services and Data Center Optimization; Adaptive Facilities Management and Planning; Data Center Security, and Data Center Storage.

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Burton Group Catalyst Conference is for enterprise technologists and executives working to drive change within their organizations. The conference brings IT leaders together to learn about and discuss today's most significant technology topics and complex issues faced by enterprise organizations. The five-day conference explores cutting-edge ideas, current challenges as well as emerging technologies shaping today's and tomorrow's enterprise.

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Climate change, renewable resources, carbon footprint, energy consumption, water conservation, responsible investing, global supply chain and alternative fuels -- terms that once were used only by environmental activists are now considered essential to global business strategy. Forward-thinking speakers and decision makers in green business -- including experts in corporate governance, consumer electronics, building and construction, venture capital, and other fields will explore how companies can create a sustainable future, develop environmentally friendly practices, adopt green policies and deploy energy saving technologies, while still keeping their competitive edge

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7x24 Exchange is a not-for-profit organization seeking to improve end-to-end reliability by promoting dialogue between those who design, build, use and maintain mission-critical enterprise information infrastructures. The conference was founded on the assumption that often professionals involved with data center uptime issues work in isolation when dealing with technical, budget, political, and career issues. This conference is designed for anyone involved with 7x24 infrastructures - IT, data center, disaster recovery and network/telecommunication managers; computer technologists; facility or building managers, supervisors and engineers.

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An invitation-only summit, BladeSystems Insight is focused on the technologies and business processes that are transforming the data center. Over two and a half business-intensive days, a pre-qualified audience of IT and business executives from across North America will converge to hold pre-scheduled case study and one-on-one meetings with technology vendors to hear the latest research and cutting-edge content from leading analysts and to build critical collaborative relationships with peers, thought leaders and current and future vendor partners.

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The Enterprise Data Center Forum is designed for senior IT, facilities and operations executives seeking practical tools and strategies for transforming their data center to meet the needs of the changing business climate. Featuring end user case studies, IDC analysts and industry experts, this one-day interactive forum offers actionable advice for creating a denser, hotter, more consolidated, highly utilized, better designed, fully redundant and very dynamic data center. The agenda will explore the impacts of emerging technology, spiking energy costs and internet-based applications on the data center, as well as address key topics including virtualization, blades, real estate, power and cooling, staffing and business processes.

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Symposium 2008 is designed to be educational, interactive and collaborative, offering a range of sometimes controversial industry viewpoints-both strategic and operational-with an emphasis on end user experiences. The symposium is comprised of major keynote addresses, interviews of trend leaders, The 2008 Green Enterprise IT Awards, plenary and break-out sessions, panel discussions, roundtable discussions designed to explore the short-term opportunities and long-term trends of green enterprise computing and other activities.

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The IEECB conference seeks to bring together commercial buildings' investors and property managers, energy efficiency experts, equipment manufacturers, service providers (ESCOs, utilities, facilities management companies) and policy makers, with a view to exchange information, to learn from each other and to network. At the conference key representatives of leading organizations and companies, institutions and equipment industry will present the overall picture and give details of policies, recent advancements and examples of best practice.

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DCE3 will consider the elements of the ideal datacentre, with an emphasis on the use of new technology, likely legislation and environmental issues. In particular this summit will consider virtualisation, human factors and carbon accounting alongside state of the art case studies to demonstrate the practical steps the datacentre community must be familiar with as they strive to create centres fit for the twenty-first century.

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Data Center World is the premier educational resource for data center professionals. This bi-annual event was launched in 1981 with the goal of providing a hands-on, educational program to enable data center professionals to better balance the key components of running a data center including management, business and technology.

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Hosted by the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) and jointly sponsored by the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA), the third annual Alliance Partner Technical Symposium is Tuesday, March 25 through Friday, March 28, 2008. Led by DMTF's vice president of Alliances, Mark Carlson, this year's event offers meetings focused on technical topics and addressing the technical work of interest to each of the DMTF's Alliance Partners.

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The IDC Green IT Forum is designed for senior IT, technology, procurement and strategic planning executives tasked with managing the role of Green IT to effectively measure and capture market opportunities for energy efficient systems. The program will take a holistic view of IT asset disposal and power and cooling in light of fast evolving security and environmental legislation.

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An unprecedented opportunity to "Get Connected to Efficient IT", The Green Grid Technical Forum was a unique industry event designed to bring members and other industry stakeholders together to further The Green Grid's mission of advancing energy efficiency in data centers and business computing ecosystems. Attendees learned about The Green Grid's Data Center Metrics, current and emerging techniques for managing data centers for efficiency and future technical deliverables from the organization. The Green Grid also hosted discussions with leading industry policy-makers from around the world.

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The mission of IT Green is to foster greater awareness of the benefits of adopting green IT policies and to help large organizations map a sound strategy. The need for information in this segment of the market is anticipated to grow significantly, and IT Green is a forum for promoting the adoption of green strategies within the corporate IT user community. A broad range of like-minded groups will attend the IT Green conference.

2007 Archive

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This focused three–day international conference will serve an audience of decision makers who are interested in learning about and contributing to the latest practical advancements related to the use of digital power control techniques in electronic systems and in power converters, and digital energy management and power management in enterprise-level installations and related digital equipment.

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Data center and IT infrastructure end-users, operators, consulting engineers and solution providers are expected to attend the DataCenter Dynamics Conference & Expo, which is advertised as The West Coast's largest gathering of professionals involved in the design, build and operational management of 24/7 mission critical IT facilities, from the data center to the LAN closet. The audience will consist of senior representatives of the financial, medical, media, service provider, outsourcing/managed services and other Fortune 500 companies operating throughout the Bay Area, Silicon Valley and the Western US.