Symposium 2010 Tracks
Symposium 2010 features five content tracks full of strategic insight and practical guidance to help you address challenges in capacity planning, optimization, reliability, efficiency, and sustainability.
Planning for Uncertain Demand
Demand for IT is growing and is often volatile. How can data center managers and CIOs plan for this without committing to investments that will rarely or never be used? Sample topics: Modular designs/containers, buying and collocation, cloud/SaaS
This track addresses capacity planning options for IT and data center facilities in the face of uncertain and/or changing demand. Sample topics, by focus:
| Facilities |
IT |
- Designing next-generation data centers
- Modular designs and containers
- "Right Tiering"
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- IT capacity planning
- Dynamic IT provisioning
- Storage optimization
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| Environmental / CSR |
C-suite / Strategic |
- Avoiding overprovisioning
- Energy management and demand response
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- Buy v. lease v. co-location options
- Using third parties and cloud/SaaS services
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IT and Facilities Energy Optimization
In today's economy, it's important to cut costs and get the most out of expensive IT and data center assets. What's the next step for CIOs, IT managers, and data center operators? Sample topics: efficient cooling, virtualization, power management, energy and TCO This track discusses how maximize utilization of IT assets, reduce energy use, and minimize TCO. Sample topics, by focus:
| Facilities |
IT |
- Metrics (PUE, etc) and reporting
- Facility monitoring/measurement
- Efficient cooling and power distribution
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- Efficient IT procurement
- Virtualization/consolidation
- Utilization
- Thin clients, etc. |
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| Environmental / CSR |
C-suite / Strategic |
| - Energy management and demand response |
- Energy use and TCO
- Company culture and energy use
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Availability and Continuity
A data center's mission is to keep enterprise IT running reliably, no matter what. How can the industry improve reliability and increase energy/cost efficiency at the same time?
Sample topics: availability-efficiency trade-offs, renewable energy integration This track addresses issues related to reliability, availability, and business continuity-data center design, reliability impacts of efficiency, site selection, electricity supply security, etc. Sample topics, by focus:
| Facilities |
IT |
- When do green technologies merit reliability trade-offs? (e.g., the risks of free cooling)
- Is water another design limit?
- Best practices to reduce human error
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- Application-level availability
- Are clouds reliable?
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| Environmental / CSR |
C-suite / Strategic |
- Demand response
- Renewable energy integration
- Are clouds green?
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- Tiers: availability v. energy efficiency trade-offs
- Electricity procurement and energy security
- Strategic site selection
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Sustainability, Carbon, and Compliance
Energy use and carbon footprint are on the radars of governments, NGOs, and CSR officers. How can IT be green? How can IT help "green" the rest of the company? Sample topics: carbon management, environmental legislation, incentives
This track addresses government initiatives and incentives likely to impact data centers, as well as the potential for IT to support improved environmental performance in the rest of the business. Sample topics, by focus:
| Facilities |
IT |
- EU Code of Conduct
- ENERGY STAR, LEED for data centers, etc.
- Regulations/legislation that could affect facilities
- Efficiency incentives
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- ENERGY STAR for servers
- Using IT to "green" the rest of the company
- Carbon accounting, management, and reporting
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| Environmental / CSR |
C-suite / Strategic |
- Carbon accounting, management, and reporting
- Carbon trading
- Water use
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- Legislation/regulations
- Defending data center energy use
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Best Practices and Effective Technologies
Technologies and best practices are continually evolving within the industry. What can CIOs, data center managers, and IT professionals take home from Symposium 2010? Sample topics: IT and facilities technology case studies, outstanding examples of eco-efficiency
This track showcases technologies and practices that can drive improved energy, cost, and environmental performance. Sample topics, by focus:
| Facilities |
IT |
- Facility technology and operations case studies
- Best data center models
- Green Enterprise IT Award winner case studies
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- IT technology and operations case studies
- Green Enterprise IT Award winner case studies
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| Environmental / CSR |
C-suite / Strategic |
- Outstanding eco-efficiency
- Business culture and low carbon companies
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- Company culture and energy use
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