- Peer Learning
- Optional Data Center Tours
- Optional Tutorials
- Keynote Address
- Cloud Computing Track
- Data Center Management Track
- End User Case Studies Track
- Facilities Management Track
- Roundtable Discussions
- Product Information Sessions
- Open Forum Closing Session
- Event Overview
- Technologies
- Exhibiting Companies by Name
- Exhibiting Companies by Classification
- Floor Plan
- Strategic Partners
- Data Center World Sponsors
- Data Center World Raffle
- Data Center World End-User Expo Only Pass
CS01: Shifting a Culture – Going Green with Testing
Rick Gauthier, Senior IT Director, Microsoft
Rick Gauthier has provided operations leadership to Microsoft for 11 years and has 19 years experience in the IT industry. As Senior IT Director for Microsoft IT's Research and Development Services (RDS), Rick oversees a team providing infrastructure and support for IT Engineering and Product Group development teams across Microsoft. RDS supported infrastructure, testing and deployment of a host of Microsoft products and services The RDS team maintains over 40,000 Windows servers in multiple U.S. and International locations.
Come learn how a team in Microsoft IT changed a long-standing test norm by designing and building purpose-built test data center facilities focused on large-scale lab consolidation. With a green data center design and server virtualization, the company reduced power consumption by 27%, delivering an estimated savings of 12,000 metric tons of carbon each year and dramatically reducing support and infrastructure costs.
CS02: The Heat is On: Taming the Data Center
Terry Doub, Director, LSU
Terry Doub is the Director of the Network Operations Center at Louisiana State University (LSU). His department is responsible for the 7x24x365 monitoring of the campus network as well as LONI, the statewide high-speed optical network. The NOC is also responsible for monitoring all security and bandwidth management systems. Terry is also responsible for the day-to-day management of the Frey Data Center. He holds a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science from LSU.
Ric Simmons, Deputy CIO and Executive Director, LSU
Ric Simmons is the Deputy CIO/Executive Director of University Networking and Infrastructure in the Office of Information Technology Services at Louisiana State University. The Networking and Infrastructure group is responsible for the campus voice and data network, the Network Operations Center (NOC), e-mail, and back-office support. He earned a Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering from LSU and a Master's Degree in Engineering Science. Ric is also a registered professional engineer (P.E.) in Louisiana.
LSU embarked on a project to expand the power and cooling capacity of the Frey Computing Services Data Center approximately three years ago. Due to limited funding, the project has been in a holding pattern. Are you in a similar situation? Are you scrambling for ideas to conserve power and cooling while servicing your customers? This session will discuss the current power and cooling challenges facing LSU and give attendees 10 tips and tricks for conserving power and cooling based on research that provide a bridge until the project is complete. Come join us to share your experience and learn from your colleagues how they are handling similar situations.
CS03: Challenges in Data Center Design and Operation: Insights to a Successful Project
Ronald Pepin, Vice President, Data Center Operations, PNC Financial Services
Ron Pepin is Vice President and General Manager of Data Center Operations at PNC Financial Services. Prior to this he served as VP and GM of Data Center Operations for National City Corp. He has extensive expertise in data center operations, critical infrastructure facilities construction, business continuity, server consolidation, asset management and disaster recovery. His more than 29 years experience includes senior management, architecture, implementation, administration, IT facilities and infrastructure in large corporate environments.
Data center managers are facing increasing pressure to improve service levels, increase availability and reduce costs. One approach to achieving these goals is through data center consolidation. In simplifying the environment and thereby making it easier to manage, data center consolidation offers a number of business benefits.
In this presentation, the speaker will discuss PNC's recent merger and its focus on the consolidation of many data centers. Best practices in the discussion will include: key solutions to manage and report on the status of the project throughout its duration; performing accurate due diligence to build a solid business case for executive management; power and cooling strategies for a green data center; and key insights in data center design and operation.
CS04: Yahoo's Latest High Efficiency Data Centers
Scott Noteboom, VP, Global Data Center Infrastructure, Yahoo!, Inc.
Scott Noteboom serves as Yahoo!'s head of Global Data Center Infrastructure. Since joining Yahoo! in 2005, he has served as chief design architect and a founder of the company's data center self-construct/ operate initiatives. He also managed over 10x growth of the Yahoo! data center/compute operating footprint, leading teams that installed and supported hundreds of thousands of hosts. Scott's duties include managing all aspects of the data center lifecycle — from design, construction and operations, to decommissions.
The past 10 years data centers have seen the rapid growth of the Internet, the next ten years are going to be about efficiency, cost control and increased utilization of computing resources – the essence of utility computing. Opportunities abound to build next generation data centers that are lower cost, higher performance and faster to build. This case study will review the evolution of Yahoo data centers and how they're getting much more for less today.
CS05: Citrix Systems Decides to Go Colo
Dimitri Mundarain, Group Manager, Data Center Operations, Citrix Systems
As owner of the Citrix corporate datacenter, Dimitri Mundarain is responsible for delivering a dynamic systems environment that enables Citrix to continue to scale its business operations for growth, while at the same time, maintaining a stable IT infrastructure, engineered for its security, reliability and disaster resilience. In this role, he manages over 2000 servers running hundreds of applications for more than 4500 users in 38 countries, including Exchange 2007, Active Directory and a very complex multi-tiered managed storage solution form HP.
A myriad of constraints and challenges, including surviving a major hurricane and new business requirements, drove the need for Citrix Systems to get a new data center. After researching options, Citrix decided to move its main data center into a colocation facility. This case study will review how the colocation vendor was chosen, how that vendor had to deal with cooling, power and space issues, and a discussion of long-term plans, including how to avoid moving the data center multiple times by implementing a modular design for new requirements and technologies.
CS06: Tapping Geothermal Cooling to Maximize Data Center Efficiency
Anton E. Self, Chief Executive, Bastionhost Ltd.
Bastionhost's founder and principal architect, Anton E. Self, bought a 64,000-square foot underground Diefenbunker and is transforming it and other hardened Cold War era military surplus buildings into Dataville: a system of green, 21st century world-class data centers and storage silos in Atlantic Canada. Anton studied corporate finance and International Portfolio Management at the London School of Economics and Humanities at the University of Arizona. Previously, he founded and managed Telephant, a New York data communications infrastructure company.
Scott Good, Advisor, Bastionhost Ltd.
Scott Good applies his technical expertise and extensive project experience to Bastionhost's mission critical data center and communications infrastructure projects. Dedicating his professional career to the data center industry, he has developed millions of square feet of data center infrastructure with a constant focus on best metrics and cost for his clients.
A graduate of Rutgers University with majors in Communications and Electrical Engineering, he is an active member of the Uptime Institute, AFCOM, 24x7 Exchange, and BICSI.
This case study examines the design/build of chiller-less data center facilities in Atlantic Canada. An open-loop groundwater system where naturally chilled water is drawn from an underground aquifer, pumped and circulated through standard CRAH units, and then discharged directly back into the ground, dramatically reduces capital costs and operating expenses. A groundwater system requires only 4% of the power needed for chiller plant based cooling, which allows the elimination of chillers, compressors, CRAC units and free airside economizers. This presentation will compare the challenges and benefits of engineering and implementing such an alternative cooling array for the critical environment.
CS07: Case Study: Built Green, Built Right. The Internap Data Center in Boston
Karl Robohm, VP Data Center Services, Transitional Data Services
Karl Robohm is a data center consultant and principal with Transitional Data Services in Hopkinton, MA. With over 20 years experience operating and building carrier grade data centers, Karl provides data center services including facility strategy, site selection, design and build services and operations.
Karl is a member of The Green Data Center Alliance, Data Center Professionals, Tier1 Research Network, AFCOM, Colocation and Data Center Real Estate Group, and the Energy and Utilities Network.
Steve Gunderson, Principal, Transitional Data Services
Steve Gunderson is an owner of Transitional Data Services — an IT consultancy with expertise in green data centers, data center relocations and technical operations. Steve was co-founder and executive manager at two commercial data center companies, Enclave Properties and CO Space. Prior to that, Steve was a senior executive at three major telecommunications firms: MCI Communications, Williams Communications and Broadwing Communications. He increased Broadwing's revenue from $20 million to $200 million in two years.
Internap's newest data center in Sommerville, MA is so power efficient, this 15,000-square foot facility received $453,000 in utility rebates. This presentation discusses some of the techniques, technologies and processes that have been used successfully at Internap to achieve sustainable PUE of 1.3, yielding significant CAPEX and OPEX savings, reduced maintenance expenses and higher overall IT reliability. These same techniques can be leveraged by existing facilities and new data centers of all sizes.
CS08: Consolidation Equals Efficiency
Mark Dereberry, Technical Lead Data Center Facilities, Harley-Davidson Motor Company
Mark Dereberry started his IT career in 1991 working for a computer retailer in Kansas City, Mo. He moved on to support the data systems at Truman Medical Center in Kansas City where he was responsible for network and systems support. Eventually, Mark landed at Harley-Davidson Motor Company in 1998 in the network operations team, supporting a new manufacturing plant in Kansas City. As technical lead of data center facilities, Mark bridges the gap between facilities and IT.
You have now completed building your beautiful new data center, what do you do now? Learn how Harley-Davidson Motor Company planned and executed their server consolidation plan and saved money doing it. See how Harley-Davidson consolidated 13 data centers into two and saved money, reduced energy consumption, and floor space. Learn the high level processes and methods Harley used to consolidate over 2,000 physical servers to just 400 and reduce server power consumption by 36%.