IT Equipment Energy Consumption: The Gap Between Common Idling Assumptions and Real World Conditions

Ken Brill of the Uptime Institute and John Stanley of The 451 Group present Institute research on power consumption swings in large-scale server installations, then discuss with Andrew Fanara (formerly of the US EPA's ENERGY STAR program) and Ralph Renne (NetApp) why some data centers see much larger drops than others.

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Keynote Speakers

	Pitt Turner		Doug Oathout		Winston Saunders
	Lauralee Martin		Albert Esser		Jack Tison
	Jonathan Koomey		Werner Vogels		Rob Bernard
	Neil Rasmussen		Dean Nelson		Bob Callender
	Stephen Hassell		Mike Manos

Keynote Discussions and Roundtables

	Eco-Efficiency: Driving Change Across the Technical and Cultural Divides
	Optimizing Data Center and IT Performance: Virtualization, Cloud Computing, and Smart Grid
	Balancing Act: Maximizing Availability, Reliability and Sustainability Over the Entire Data Center Lifecycle
	Will Today′s Data Center Support Tomorrow′s IT?
	Driving Out Inefficiencies in Power and Cooling
	IT Equipment Energy Consumption: The Gap Between Common Idling Assumptions and Real World Conditions