A Smart Grid for the Data Center?


Presenter: Doug Oathout, Vice President - Enterprise Business, Hewlett Packard


Smart Grids have been proposed as a way of reducing energy consumption and carbon emissions across entire nations. They involve moving and managing demand and workloads, monitoring, and sophisticated control systems. In this session, Doug Oathout, one of Hewlett Packard's leading thinkers on energy efficiency in servers and data centers, explains how an integrated, holistic and smart infrastructure can be designed to slash IT energy use.