Data Center Facilities Design and Operation

Data center facilities executives must wring every last drop of performance out of their data center infrastructure while minimizing the resources and cost used to support the IT load. Sessions in this track will provide data center design and facilities professionals with

• the latest information on critical facilities infrastructure,
• direction to ensure facilities management teams work in lockstep with their IT counterparts, and
• best practices for optimizing cooling and power distribution systems for maximum availability and efficiency.

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Enterprise IT Architecture, Operations and Optimization

IT managers are facing rapidly evolving server, storage and network systems management challenges. Uptime Institute will bring together industry leading experts to discuss the most important topics facing IT executives:

• advanced server virtualization deployment,
• data center consolidation case studies,
• the economics of private cloud computing, and
• capacity planning recommendations for an unstable economic climate.

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Cloud Computing, Third-Party Colocation and Hosting Management

Many organizations have recently built new data centers, yet still are compelled to turn to third-party IT service providers to meet fluctuating IT capacity demand. These organizations may use multiple in-house data centers, outsourced hosting providers, and even cloud services to meet different business objectives. Management teams that effectively negotiate and control these relationships will become increasingly important for organizations. This track will focus on the following topics:

• practical aspects of cloud implementation: governance, cost, security;
• cloud computing "lessons-learned-so-far" case studies;and
• best practices for managing colocation and managed-service provider relationships as well as service-level agreements in this hybrid world.

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