Digital Infrastructure Convergence™ is a call to action for IT and facilities management to develop a common language, meaningful metrics, and cross-disciplinary skills to meet rapidly evolving computing demands. Uptime Institute Symposium attendees will have the opportunity to dive deep into expert content in their specific areas of focus. Digital Infrastructure Convergence™ is the organizing principle behind each and every session, and will help you shape your organization’s future around aligned business objectives.
Data Center Facilities Design and Operation - This track focuses on helping organizations wring every last drop of performance out of their data center infrastructure while minimizing the power, carbon and water used to support the IT load.
Enterprise IT Architecture, Operations and Optimization - This track will focus on the server, storage and network systems management challenges facing today's IT organizations, as well as the organizational challenges facing many IT departments as boundaries between IT and MEP infrastructure roles begin to blur.
Cloud Computing, Third-Party Colocation and Hosting Management - This track will focus on the practical aspects of cloud implementation: governance, cost, security, and "lessons-learned-so-far" case studies. We will also look at best practices for managing collocation and managed-service provider relationships as well as service-level agreements in this hybrid world.
Symposium 2012 will have a Special Focus on modular, pre-fabricated and containerized data centers.
The landscape of data center design has changed, and as systemized approaches continue to evolve and improve, custom one-off data center designs will no longer be the de facto approach to data center deployment. Data center management will need to make decisions in the future between systemized, modular data center designs or a one-off custom project. To make those decisions effectively, executives need to understand what the modular designs do or don’t offer, and how those decisions impact cost and delivery of data center capacity.
This Special Focus programming will cover:
modular products and systems components from leading manufacturers,
the economics of modular data center deployment, and
design considerations for modular data center campuses.
The Uptime Institute Symposium is one of the most influential events on the IT and data center field. This year Uptime Institute will offer groundbreaking new data, new methodologies and process improvements, and new end-user case studies that will deliver immediate business value to our delegates. Click here for the list of the Top Ten Reasons to Attend.
It's the biggest data center consolidation project in the world: the US federal government has committed to closing 1,200 data centers by 2015. The initiative has saved 14 million USD to date, but that’s only .0183% of the federal data center budget, and the project is far from over. Find out what the situation is like on the ground for the agencies tasked with the heavy lifting from a panel of federal IT executives, hosted by MeriTalk.
Uptime Institute's Server Roundup competition recognizes the environmental stewardship, technical innovation, and hard work of the data center community.
At Symposium 2012, the winner and runner up of the Inaugural Server Roundup will present the case studies that were recognized for Most IT Equipment Removed and Highest Percentage IT Equipment Removed.
Uptime Institute grants Green Enterprise IT (GEIT) Awards to projects, ideas, and products that significantly improve energy productivity and resource use in IT. At Symposium, 2012 GEIT Award honorees will present case studies in eight categories covering Facility Design; Facility and IT Retrofits; Facility, IT, and Modular Data Center Product Deployments; and Audacious Idea.
The Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) Climate Corps matches trained students from top MBA programs with companies to develop practical, actionable energy efficiency plans. Climate Corps fellows have identified savings of
1.6 billion kilowatt hours of electricity use
over 1 million metric tons of CO2 emissions annually
over 1 billion USD in net operational costs.
Exposition Hall
Symposium 2012's Exposition Hall will host scores of the top providers in the industry.
Andrew Stokes is the Chief Scientist of Deutsche Bank’s Group Technology & Operations Division, where he is responsible for long-term strategic planning and technology research for the Bank’s data centers and enterprise infrastructure services. At Symposium 2012, Mr Stokes will summarize the key lessons learned from the first year of operations at Deutsche Bank's Eco Data Center.
Uptime Institute Symposium 2012 will feature a unique Modular Data Center Campus within the Santa Clara Convention Center. Symposium Delegates and Exposition-registered visitors will have an unprecedented opportunity to walk through the leading modular data center designs and make side-by-side comparisons.
Nicholas Carr writes about technology, culture, and economics. His most recent book, The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains, was a 2011 Pulitzer Prize nominee and a New York Times bestseller.
At Uptime Institute Symposium 2012, Mr Carr will share his insight on the commoditization of IT and the current shift from enterprise-owned data centers to utility-supplied cloud computing and how many IT organizations are applying hybrid models of in-house and cloud computing resources to realize the benefits of both approaches.
