2011 Technology Innovation Presentations (TIPs)

Technical Innovation Presentations (TIPs) are short, factual presentations that contribute to the Delegates' understanding of Symposium themes and stimulate discussion among attendees. The following TIPs were presented at Symposium 2011:

	Find Business Value and Green Efficiencies in Your Data Center
	Research shows that $24.7 billion is wasted each year on hardware, maintenance, management, energy and cooling for unused servers. Learn how to save millions of dollars, dramatically reduce your energy consumption and become a greener, more sustainable company. Through real-world case studies, this session will explore how to effectively implement power management policies, better manage virtualization, reduce infrastructure, and improve overall IT efficiency across your organization. This presentation will also identify tools and techniques for achieving major cost, energy and environmental savings within your data center, providing a how-to guide to energy efficiency and data center consolidation. View the Presentation
	Understanding Airflow: The Single Most Critical Factor in Achieving DC Cooling Efficiency
	Studies show that an average data center has 2-3 times the needed cooling capacity, but still has thermal problems. This inefficiency is caused by the mismatch of IT heat load and delivery of airflow at server racks. A data center has a dynamic heat load that varies between racks and time. Understanding the science of airflow is critical to creating a solution for your data center cooling. This presentation covers the fundamentals of airflow, fan theory & VFD, effect of underfloor impedance, and challenges in airflow distribution in contained aisles. View the Presentation
	Ethernet Exchanges: Expanding Interconnection Options For Advanced Services
	As real-time applications proliferate so does the enterprise momentum towards Ethernet-based unified communications networks with service level assurance (SLA), strict QoS, and access to cloud-based resources. Cost effective delivery of these services, with the flexibility of carrier choice is paramount.  In this talk, we will discuss the benefits of: preferences for Ethernet interconnection; value of Ethernet exchanges; solutions to translate between different carrier Ethernet offering; guaranteed vs. best effort over the Internet services; inter-provider network connectivity (NNI) with QoS; Ethernet VPNs as on-ramps to virtual private clouds; and automated portals for real-time service mapping. View the Presentation
	Data Center Efficiency: More Than Just A Good PUE
	There is more to data center efficiency than just a good PUE. As the industry races to promote a PUE number as close to 1 as possible, many times without adequate standardization or documentation, CoreSite stresses the importance of maintaining focus on other data center efficiencies of equal importance. Come hear CoreSite’s heads of corporate strategy, data center design, construction and others offer their insight on this compelling topic. View the Presentation
	Standby Power Generation Ensures Nonstop Operation at Communications Data Center
	Cox Enterprises in Phoenix, Arizona, recently completed a new 114,000 square-foot data center to serve millions of digital video, internet, telephone and wireless customers. Michael Mosman, Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at CCG Facilities Integration Inc., will describe the innovative solution developed by the CCG engineering team and engineers at Cummins Power Generation. John Kilinskis and Terry Seger from Cummins Power Generation will be on hand to answer questions about the integrated standby power system installed at the Cox data center, including three Cummins generator sets and a PowerCommand paralleling system. Unique features of the standby system include an automated "swing" function for the generators, and specially-designed switchgear with arc-containing enclosures. View the Presentation
	Fit for the Cloud - Data Center Design
	The cloud data center poses different requirements and different IT load characteristics to the power & cooling infrastructure. Bringing the power and cooling infrastructure design to meet these requirements is a necessity for any future proof data center. The characteristic high variances in the IT load are require a tailored cooling system for both reliability and energy efficiency; the dynamics of modern IT hardware and platforms are not matching traditional infrastructure design. Learn how the new Deerns 'Fit for Cloud' management and automation design resolves this and delivers a reliable and energy efficient data center. View the Presentation
	Isolated Parallel UPS System Topology at DuPont Fabros' Santa Clara Data Center
	DuPont Fabros Technology’s latest data center utilizes a cutting-edge UPS topology known as the Isolated-Parallel System (IP System). A multi-module system with sixteen 1300kW units in parallel, it delivers 18.2MW of usable critical power. Specifically architected for multi-tenant facilities, this UPS system allows tenants to have a dedicated UPS system for their computer room while simultaneously providing fault isolation from UPS systems serving other computer rooms. Correspondingly, power is shared equally among the rotary UPS modules in parallel. This presentation discusses the features and benefits of an IP UPS System and compares/contrasts this new UPS topology to legacy UPS topologies. View the Presentation
	Quantifying Your Containment Strategy - A Phased Approach to Achieve Success
	As aisle containment becomes increasingly common, a key issue on the minds of data center managers is validation of the energy consumption savings. You must understand the existing airflow characteristics of your environment -- "chaos cooling" in legacy data centers -- and potential obstacles in order to design a test and measurement plan that effectively baselines the elements for improvement. Only then can you perform post-installation testing that ensures your data center is operating more efficiently and predictably. View the Presentation
	Procurement Methods and Forms of Contract for Engineering and Construction of Efficient, Available and Cost Effective Mission Critical Facilities
	This session will review different procurement methods and forms of contract used to procure products, engineering and construction services for mission critical facilities. Procurement methods reviewed will include design/build, the traditional bid/spec procurement process and newer integrated procurement models.  For each method, the method of securing the services and forms of contract will be reviewed that provide the owner the highest quality solution at the lowest risk, cost and time frame. You will learn how the method of procurement affects maximization of efficiency and availability as defined by organizations such as the Green Grid and the Uptime Institute. In addition to looking at cost reduction, the session will review how to limit liability, disputes and litigation for the various procurement methods. Finally the session will provide a guideline to owners and operators for how to build the most efficient and available mission critical facility while satisfying the requirements of internal procurement and strategic sourcing groups. View the Presentation
	The Challenge with Economizers
	The IT industry is a buzz about “free cooling” and its impact on efficiency in the data center. With a variety of economizer technologies in use today, it is important to understand the pros and cons depending on geographical location, size of data center and the importance of uptime. This discussion will help attendees gain a better understanding of technologies and innovations to determine which of these solutions is best suited for their data center. View the Presentation
	Achieving Instant Energy Savings While Improving Uptime
	Developments in low-cost, flexible monitoring of inlet air conditions and cooling equipment  via wireless mesh network sensing have generated remarkable energy savings in data centers of multiple sizes and configurations.  The intelligent monitoring and automated management of cooling equipment has proven to be effective in a variety of data center operations by making control adjustments that reduce cooling energy consumption while ensuring that servers get the recommended inlet air conditions. This presentation describes how dynamic cooling management operations achieve cooling energy savings averaging 20% at eight State of California data centers as well as commercial data centers throughout the United States and Japan. View the Presentation
	Reclaiming Data Center Capacity Through Integrated IT and Facilities Operations
	A major problem facing data center managers today is realizing the full potential of available data center space, power, cooling and airflow resources.  Operational practices are fragmented at the subsystem levels, which hinders efforts to maintain optimal data center performance. The most critical fragmentation occurs between the IT and facilities operations groups, isolating the processes for managing the IT equipment and the cooling system required to keep the IT equipment operational. To compensate for the lack of coordination, cooling capacity and airflow are over provisioned, diverting a significant amount of available power away from the IT equipment and reducing the IT loading capacity of the facility. A new methodology and integrated solution is presented in the form of a case study that integrates the IT and facilities management processes without undue constraints. The impact of the new methodology is system-level improvements in power utilization efficiency and IT loading capacity while maintaining business continuity. View the Presentation
	How Reliable Smart Grids and High Efficiency UPS Improves Data Center Efficiency
	Double conversion UPS is required for data centers, but operating continuously in double conversion mode is not required. The utility Smart Grids in developed countries are clean and reliable enough 99% of the time. The double conversion UPS does not need to continuously condition utility power that is already "clean". Eliminating unnecessary power conditioning improves UPS efficiency to 99%. When utility power is not clean, the UPS returns to double conversion operating mode maintaining reliable power to the data center. This session will analyze utility reliability, UPS performance and data center power quality for UPS high efficiency operating mode. View the Presentation
	An Exploration of DCIM Standards and How They Will Define the Management of Data Center Environments
	Confused by the generic term DCIM? This session will give you further insight as well as an overall understanding of the terminology used by these management tools. We will explore a number of facets of DCIM including Monitoring, Planning, Asset Management, and Capacity Planning.  We explain why each of these are highly important and imperative, as well as the benefits of having them when you deploy new management solutions. View the Presentation
	Ensuring Visibility into a Cloudy Network
	The advent of large-scale 10-Gigabit network deployments is helping cloud computing move into the mainstream of enterprise computing at an even faster pace.  However, this has brought even more attention to the issue of network visibility. Businesses which deploy 10Gb/s connections and not have network visibility or ability to access that information can suffer negative effects on their bottom line. With network speeds racing ahead from Gigabit to 10G, 40G, 100G, and Terabits, as well as security threats and regulatory compliance becoming more complex, monitoring has become central to protecting the enterprise. This presentation will discuss the business and IT drivers corporations face to ensure adequate visibility into their networks and best practices for seamless data delivery while improving cost efficiency and increasing productivity of shared IT services. View the Presentation
	HP Intelligent Power Discovery
	See how HP innovation eliminates common human errors that can cause downtime while providing unsurpassed monitoring ability to track, trend, and control power usage extending the capacity and life of your data center. View the Presentation
	Rationalizing The Use of Cloud Computing
	Cloud computing may cause profound changes across the IT landscape, potentially introducing new methods and business models for delivering computing resources to a variety of workloads. Many enterprise IT managers welcome the future ability to take advantage of public clouds for shifting IT costs from capital expenditures to operating expenditures. In the meanwhile, the priority for most large organizations is virtualizing as much as possible of their internal infrastructure into private clouds. This session will examine the cost impact of replacing physical servers with equivalent computing resources from third-party cloud providers, based on analysis of IDEAS’ unique RPE2 data for quantifying server performance. The session will also review the key technical issues with deploying private clouds, focusing on tradeoffs between the leading virtualization platforms for hosting clouds. View the Presentation
	Modular Data Centers: Rapidly Deploy Built-to-Order Data Centers to Extend the Lifecycle of Your Current Infrastructure and Reduce Total Cost of Ownership
	Gain insights into modular data centers and discover how the compartmentalized design offers unprecedented flexibility, reliability and energy efficiency. Reduce the cost and time associated with the data center build process through highly customizable modules that are manufactured off-site. Overcome scalability and speed-of-deployment with highly customizable, fully integrated data, power and cooling modules. Maximize data center efficiency and reliability through standardized modules and a single operating system to manage the data center. Examine a fully integrated operating system that enables real-time control, historical performance trending, alarm notifications and self-healing to proactively address impacting events. View the Presentation
	Regimented Standards, Operational Sustainability and Economic Efficiencies Through Modular Data Center Technology
	It is impossible to think that one team can effectively operate, manage, and maintain a series of “snowflakes” – a model where every data center is uniquely designed and custom built using different processes, parts and vendors. Rather than having to maintain site-specific expertise related to disparate data center designs, learn how i/o’s modular data center technology brings regimented standards, operational sustainability, and economic efficiencies to data center operations. Discover the value and immediate benefits of having a single set of procedures to manage your enterprise-grade data center. View the Presentation
	Power Distribution: Finger‐Safe Design and Circuit Breaker Coordination
	There are two power distribution evils currently running rampant: 1) electrician safety from arc-flash, and 2) the coordination of circuit breakers for selective trip coordination.  These problems have been magnified by the use of 300kVA and 500kVA transformers.  This session will cover finger-safe designs that reduce exposure to live bus and will also include a “10-Minute University” on the use of fast-acting circuit breakers to guarantee selective trip coordination. View the Presentation
	The Original Air Conditioner: Using Fog to Evaporatively Cool your Data Center
	Facilities have been using fogging systems as an economical method to control temperature and humidity for decades. The new ASHRAE guidelines and the broader industry push to use more outside air make fogging an ideal option for cooling data centers. In this session we will cover design guidelines, psychrometrics, and show the huge energy savings that can be achieved with fog. You will also get links to tax and utility incentives, and where to look online for free-cooling maps and tools. View the Presentation
	Take Your Data Center Optimization Projects From Basic to Advanced with Real-time Power and Cooling Intelligence
	Are your data center optimization projects stuck in first gear? Let us show you how to accelerate data center initiatives from basic performance tuning to gaining capacity and improving business continuity. This TIP helps data center managers deliver on the promise of doing more with existing resources—including gaining capacity—by enabling real-time monitoring of power and cooling. The session will illustrate the performance metrics important to developing a data center optimization roadmap, and how to overcome the challenges of getting to and working with the information you need so that you can achieve data center initiatives smarter and faster. View the Presentation
	Getting to the Cloud – a Cross-Domain Strategy for Data Centers
	The cloud is redefining service delivery models. Organizations must adopt a cross-domain service management strategy and stop managing in silos. The resulting need for infrastructure readiness for provisioning services faster also requires a new set of best practices. The challenge is that many of the traditional DCIM tools were never designed to address cloud-like service delivery models, nor the cross-domain operational challenges in implementing them. Learn how Ni2 customers like Brocade, FedEx, and Taleo have adopted a cross-domain strategy to independently manage the Service and Infrastructure lifecycles holistically across the IT, networks, facilities and cloud domains. View the Presentation
	Industrial Sector Lessons: Gaining Operational Insights by Leveraging a Data Collection and Information Management Strategy
	Data center industry practices have evolved along with new technologies to address increasingly complex service level demands. Delivering compute resources consistent with an organization’s sustainability objectives is adding to that challenge. To turn the challenge to an opportunity, the data center industry should consider lessons learned from the industrial sector to help guide their planning. In particular, creating a data collection and information management foundation on which to build a sustainability strategy can be a wise investment. Implementing such a strategy as a core capability provides valuable operational insights that can help to align business and sustainability goals. View the Presentation
	Planning the Power and Cooling Efficiency of Your Data Center
	The technology of tomorrow is driving our businesses of today. From devices like cell phones, iPads, laptops; to best practices like consolidation, virtualization, and new computing paradigms such as cloud computing; everything that's connected affects the data center. As we strive for energy optimization and power and cooling efficiency, performance cannot be sacrificed. New data centers are required to support operations thus leading us to rethink geographic locations. The data center is the foundation of today's companies. Please join Environmental Systems Design (ESD) and Panduit for an interactive discussion on common pitfalls, best practices and methodologies in data center planning and design. Presentation not available.
	Journey to Consolidation
	Any data center project will support a higher business driver. Alegent needed to consolidate their IT operations in order to achieve a more sound business continuity strategy. Moving from a distributed data closet architecture to a centralized data center is not an easy task. There are many elements that must be considered from understanding, planning, and design to implementation and management. Please join us for an interactive discussion on how Alegent and Panduit embarked on this journey together. Presentation not available.
	The Evolution of Modular Data Centers
	This session will cover the evolving market of modular data centers and the groups of solutions that have come forth - power, IT, alternative energy, and communications solutions. Join PDI as we review overall market growth and current concepts for optimizing designs within each discipline. View the Presentation
	Taming the Beast: Data-Enabled Strategies for Effective Cost Management of your Electrical Infrastructure
	Even with increased efficiencies in IT hardware and mission critical power infrastructures, energy demand and costs continue to climb - and there is no end in sight. Competitive advantage and revenue margins are dependent on effective operating cost containment, leveraging of resources, and uncompromised reliability of your mission critical infrastructure. For many organizations, power is the largest operational expense, yet remains the least managed commodity. Enterprise-wide power savings of just 1% can deliver millions to the bottom line. The more you know about your power usage, the better able you are to use this intelligence to develop effective strategies to reduce energy costs. Discover the value of data-enabled navigation of the energy management continuum and chart a course to optimized operations and realized utility savings. View the Presentation
	Data Center Energy Management:  Analyzing and Improving Your Efficiency
	Through a series of thoughtful questions and examples, this session will make you rethink your data center challenges. Are you wasting power on cooling? Should you stretch your server replacement cycles? Are your racks loaded efficiently? How much space and power can you free up? A lively discussion will question common practices, examine a case study and point out improvement opportunities. View the Presentation
	Power Design Innovations to meet Data Center Design Requirements
	As customer power requirements change and the need for service providers to provide power in an ever more efficient and effective manner grows, design innovation becomes a necessity.  Scalable power flexibility and efficiency will increasingly drive customer data center purchase decision making.  Successful service providers will need to drive down overall power costs while increasing flexibility to deliver exactly the power required by their customers.  QTS discusses several design innovation examples to help data center operators begin to address this trend. View the Presentation
	Hybrid IT Infrastructure As-A-Service
	What is hybrid IT outsourcing?  How can you leverage this scalable, utility-based infrastructure to our advantage? How does traditional collocation work with the cloud? If you are looking for answers to these questions you are not alone. Learn how your organization can keep their investment in specialized hardware in a mission-critical facility while easily allowing for the scaling of compute, storage and network resources when needed. View the Presentation
	A Better Approach to Asset Management at eBay
	With rapid server refresh cycles, eBay’s data center operations team continually innovates to optimize its asset managent process. All other corporate data centers face similar challenges: How do we ensure that our asset management database remains 100% accurate, even as moves / changes / decommissioning occurs every single day? How do we completely eliminate human error (and manual effort) from the asset tracking and auditing process? Proper asset management yields high returns beyond CapEx optimization. Specifically, eliminating “ghost servers” can free up data center capacity as well as reduce extensive power and cooling costs. Therefore, in collaboration with technology partner Raritan, eBay’s data center operations and asset management teams developed a novel solution to solve these problems: By equipping cabinets with the ability to continuously confirm the precise physical location of each asset — accurate to the U-space — yet without the cost of exotic technolgies or the intrusion of any agents on the servers themselves, eBay can at all times be certain of its asset management information integrity. View the Presentation
	A New Best Practice: Combining Environmental, Power and Asset Data
	Data centers constantly consolidate. They also become denser, packed with more, smaller equipment. So it’s more critical than ever to keep track of server assets as they move from rack to rack, ensure environmental conditions are calibrated to account for this asset movement, while ensuring efficient power usage is maintained as things change. In this session we will examine the need for a consolidated look into all aspects of rack related activity. View the Presentation
	Making Uninterruptible Utility Power a Reality
	The growing demand for capacity on the internet has led data center operators to build larger and larger facilities to drive costs down in terms of capital spent and total cost of ownership (TCO).  However, as centers get larger and more powerful, meeting the need for UPS and back-up power protection gets much harder.  Over a decade ago S&C Electric Company pioneered the concept of large-scale medium-voltage UPS as a utility-scale solution.  That large UPS approach has been presented in several Uptime Institute white papers published over the last five years.  Recently S&c expanded that medium-voltage Ups solution to even large systems (up to 25 MVA) with any battery protection time (typically 5-15 minutes) desired by the data center management.  For mega-center applications S&C has developed the concept of Tier III “Plus” UPS design, which enhances the protection level on dual bus power schemes in a cost-effective way.  This concept will be presented. Now as centers get larger and larger (20 MW and up) the availability of adequate utility power capacity is challenging site selection for new facilities.  Over the last six years S&C has worked with several major US utilities on large-scale energy storage systems, which store hours of power that can be applied as a load management tool not just a UPS “insurance policy”.  This concept of “uninterruptible utility power” will be presented in detail to show how the UPS becomes a power management system with new benefits. View the Presentation
	Facility Module Architecture for Data Centers In Four Parking Spaces
	IT containers have created a giant buzz due to their standardized design that eliminates a long and expensive planning cycle that brings computing capacity on-line very fast and efficiently. Facility specific power and cooling infrastructure need to be planned and engineered to support these containers. Standardized, repeatable pre-manufactured power and cooling containers have not been available - until now! Learn about a new category of power and cooling modules that make up a facility level containerized data center solution. Building a data center this way enables companies to finally realize the benefits of speed, efficiency, cost, density and portability. View the Presentation
	Reducing Server Power Consumption by 75 Percent:  A Mozilla Case Study
	Power and space are the dominant issues in data center design and management—and open source pioneer Mozilla is no exception.  To reduce data center power consumption, Mozilla turned to SeaMicro’s SM10000.  The SM 10000 is a revolutionary new server optimized for data center workloads. It uses one-quarter the power and takes one-quarter the space of traditional servers, without requiring modifications to software.  SeaMicro and Mozilla will discuss the integration of the SM10000 into to Mozilla’s data centers and the immediate and longer-term reduction in power and space as well as the increased ROI. Executives from SeaMicro Mozilla will be on hand to discuss and  answer questions. View the Presentation
	What Works and What Doesn't: Maximizing Capacity Through Energy Insight
	Data centers have limited resources -- power, space, cooling, and compute. But let's face it, the first resource you run out of is power. To maximize the life of data centers and reclaim capacity for new services, there needs to be effective business intelligence to plan, strategize, act, and evaluate the financial and performance impact of data center modernization. Sentilla and SAP show you how to run a data center like a "data factory", with intelligent proactive management and financial analysis, with results from SAP's Co-Innovation Lab data center environment. View the Presentation
	Power Monitoring, Management and Control Solutions
	In this session, Server Technology will present case studies highlighting innovative and unique power monitoring applications and solutions for increasing efficiency, reducing power costs and measuring power usage. View the Presentation
	Data Centers and the Smart Grid - Preparing Data Centers for Smart Consumption
	The dynamic evolution of the Smart Grid continues with changing technology, utility requirements and evolving standards. With reliability being the top consideration of data center managers. how do they optimize energy onsumption while maximizing the benefits of smart grid technologies? This presentation will provide attendees with insight into optimizing their data center operations for Smart Grid technologies while minimizing their energy footprint. Chip will reveal how Siemens can assist with a sustainable smart consumption plan for dynamically managing energy consumption and use. View the Presentation
	Beyond Efficiency Toward Asset Utilization
	The foundation for building an efficient data center means ensuring that the facility runs optimally long after construction is complete and also that it is fully utilized before the next data center is built. Data centers must be constructed as living buildings with dynamic performance criteria interacting with the environment and business they support. To respond to these needs and allow business owners to fully utilize their infrastructure and IT assets, it is necessary to capture a broad spectrum of information about both the facility and the business. The integration of real-time data with application econometrics and traditional workflow software drives:best in class data center efficiency, and substantially better utilization of those facilities. We will explain how this technology goes beyond effective management of the chiller plant to provide visibility into the energy performance and utilization of IT equipment allowing facility owners and operators to make informed decisions about when and how much expansion is required to meet the needs of a growing facility. View the Presentation
	Developing CapEx-Efficient Free Cooling Strategies and Evaluating their Impact on OpEx and Total Cost of Ownership
	This program is ideal for owners of new or existing data centers looking for cost effective cooling solutions that provide immediate and significant energy savings.  Learn how today technology is helping large and small facility owners save without redesigning their data center or buying into unproven or trendy solutions. View the Presentation
	SynapSense Power Suite: Power Management in a Legacy Data Center
	A representative from Lawrence Berkeley National Labs (LBNL) will provide an overview of the energy efficiency improvements LBNL has undertaken in their data center, including real-time PUE. SynapSense will address power management issues and the value of providing real-time visibility to available power and cooling capacity for optimal server placement, as well as provide a preview of the latest product additions to the SynapSense Power Suite. View the Presentation
	Modular Central Utility Plants
	This session will describe the Modular Central Utility Plant model and its benefits in the mission critical market. Modular Central Utility Plants can include chillers, cooling towers, pumps, controls, equipment enclosures, thermal storage tanks, emergency water storage tanks, emergency power generation, and UPS systems. Modular Central Utility Plants offer many benefits over traditional construction including factory performance testing of the entire plant, a controlled manufacturing environment, and an decreased installation schedule. This results in a central plant that operates most efficiently and guaranteed to operate at specified requirements for the facility. View the Presentation
	Solutions for Cooling High Density, Diverse and Variable Load Raised Floor Environments
	Current trends to improve data center energy efficiency and capacity have lead to the adoption of high density computing with diverse and variable loads. Tate has released several new in-floor cooling solutions for the raised floor data center that save energy while addressing these increasingly common cooling challenges. These new cooling products are designed to provide local and dynamic airflow delivery and angular airflow for precise air delivery with a high total air capture rate. This presentation explains these technologies and how they work together with existing IT cooling systems to meet variable load demands while lowering energy costs. View the Presentation
	Energy and Efficiency in the Data Center:  Practical Innovations to Deliver Real Efficiencies
	TelecityGroup will outline how data centers operators play a key role in managing environmental impact and how this is achievable for most organizations. View the Presentation
	Using Airflow Simulation to Meet Cooling Challenges in Data Centers
	Airflow simulation is a powerful tool for identifying and resolving the cooling problems in data centers. It enables you to make a computer model of your data center and assess various cooling solutions. You can then implement the best solution that meets your needs and budget. In this presentation, a number of case studies will be presented, through which various solutions to common cooling problems in data centers will be simulated. For each case, the airflow pattern and temperature distribution in the data center will be shown. Using this information, the proper cooling strategy can be selected and implemented. View the Presentation
<	Power Distribution and Conversion: From ‘Edison vs. Westinghouse/Tesla’ All the Way to A 0.5V Processor
	Power distribution and conversion challenges – from the grid to the processor / memory - have highlighted several potentially conflicting solutions: AC vs. DC, 3-phase vs. 1-phase, 400V vs. 48V vs. 12V. Where does the AC-DC changeover make sense? AC to the room, to the row, to the rack, to the shelf, to the blade? Which system has the highest efficiency, cutting electricity cost and/or maximizing system performance in a maxed-out central office / data center? This presentation reviews the pros and cons of different distribution systems and highlights the power conversion technology available today to maximize system efficiency all the way to the processor / memory loads. View the Presentation

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